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Ben Cotton

Greetings from your Fedora Program Manager!

Activities within Fedora

Fedora Program Manager

I started as the Fedora Program Manager in June 2018. I wrangle the Changes changes, manage the Schedule schedule, and generally help herd the cats.

My Badges

  Involvement  Mugshot  Bloggin' it! (Planet III)  Bloggin' it! (Planet I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet II)  Embryo  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I)  Egg  Tadpole  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer II)  Junior Badger (Badger I)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer IV)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer III)  Tadpole with Legs  Junior Editor  Let Me Introduce Myself  White Hat  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  Take this and call me in the morning  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  Macaron (Cookie I)  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Associate Editor  Origin  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  Novice (Wordsmith I)  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  LISA16  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Froglet  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  Bona Fide  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Riddle Me This  Speak Up!  Senior Editor  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Vacation  Council Member  Let's do lunch!  Secretary General  Top 500  Master Editor  Helping Hand  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Community Messenger I  Flock 2018 Attendee  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  Rollercoaster Restaurant  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  Crypto Badger  White Rabbit  Community Messenger II  Chief Editor  CommOps Superstar  It's a Cake Thing  Common Bugs Contributor  Black and White (Cookie III)  Community Messenger III  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  I Voted: Fedora 29  DevConf 2019 Attendee  Flock 2019 Attendee  Prolific!  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Nuancier F30  Grandmaster Editor  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  Rockin' & Rollin'  Top 100  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  You’re on a boat!  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  I Voted: Fedora 31  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  It still works!  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Readiness  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Science (Kernel Tester I)  Adult Frog  Extra!  Extra!  Summer Coder  I Voted: Fedora 30  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  The Blessing of the FPL  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  Master Badger (Badger III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI)  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  NeuroFedora SIG Member  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  The Panda Is In  I Voted: Fedora 32  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Fedora Advocate  Rainbow (Cookie V)  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  nest-attendee-2020  iot-name-game  I Voted: Fedora 33  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  Social Panda  Lets have a party Fedora 33  I Voted: Fedora 34  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Magazine Editor  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  Lets have a party Fedora 34  Community Survey Taker I  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Learning from Sensei  United Packages of Fedora  Akademy 2021  Nest Attendee 2021  GUADEC 2021  Science (Kernel Tester II)  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Museum Visitor  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  Science (Kernel Tester III)  Fedora Week of Diversity  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  Lets have a party Fedora 36  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  Community Survey Taker 2022  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  GUADEC 2022  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Community Messenger VIII  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  Called to Action  Community Messenger VII  IoT Working Group Member  I voted: Fedora 37  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Community Messenger VI  Community Survey Taker 2023  I voted: Fedora 38  I voted: Fedora 39  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant

Packaging

I am an owner or co-owner of

  • condor
  • wordgrinder
  • latex2html

Marketing

I joined the Marketing team in December 2017. I'm interested in starting an I am Fedora short video series.

Documentation Project

I was volunteered to be the Docs project leader in November 2011. Mostly my contributions involve administrivia, easy bug fixes, and occasional chapters about printing. I sort of faded away from the docs project when life got in the way.