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