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Ben Cotton
Personal information
Location: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Homepage: https://funnelfiasco.com
E-mail: bcotton@fedoraproject.org
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#fedora-council,#fedora-devel,#fedora-mktg, #opensource.com​
Ham Radio: kc9fyx​
Twitter: funnelfiasco
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/

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

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.