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Ben Cotton
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
FAS name: bcotton
Fedora e-mail: bcotton@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: bcotton.fedorapeople.org
 


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

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.