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