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

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

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.