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Revision as of 17:11, 19 July 2018

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  Bloggin' it! (Planet III)  Bloggin' it! (Planet I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet II)  Embryo  Tadpole  Egg  Associate Editor  Origin  Macaron (Cookie I)  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  LISA16  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Speak Up!  Vacation  Community Messenger II  I Voted: Fedora 29  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  Grandmaster Editor  Prolific!  You’re on a boat!  Rockin' & Rollin'  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  It still works!  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Adult Frog  Master Badger (Badger III)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Fedora Advocate  I Voted: Fedora 32  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  Social Panda  Lets have a party Fedora 33  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Learning from Sensei  Museum Visitor  Science (Kernel Tester II)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  Lets have a party Fedora 36  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  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  Take this and call me in the morning  Novice (Wordsmith I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  Bona Fide  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Secretary General  Top 500  Helping Hand  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Flock 2018 Attendee  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  CommOps Superstar  Community Messenger III  DevConf 2019 Attendee  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Nuancier F30  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  Flock 2019 Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  Readiness  I Voted: Fedora 30  Extra!  Extra!  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  NeuroFedora SIG Member  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  The Panda Is In  Rainbow (Cookie V)  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  nest-attendee-2020  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  I Voted: Fedora 33  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  I Voted: Fedora 34  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  GUADEC 2021  Nest Attendee 2021  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  GUADEC 2022  IoT Working Group Member  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant  Let Me Introduce Myself  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  White Hat  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  Froglet  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Council Member  Riddle Me This  Senior Editor  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Community Messenger I  Rollercoaster Restaurant  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Crypto Badger  Chief Editor  Common Bugs Contributor  Black and White (Cookie III)  It's a Cake Thing  Top 100  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  I Voted: Fedora 31  Science (Kernel Tester I)  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Summer Coder  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  The Blessing of the FPL  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  iot-name-game  Magazine Editor  Lets have a party Fedora 34  Community Survey Taker I  United Packages of Fedora  Akademy 2021  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Fedora Week of Diversity  Science (Kernel Tester III)  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  Community Survey Taker 2022  Lets have a party Fedora 37  I voted: Fedora 39  Let's have a party (Fedora 40)  Top 25  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Community Messenger VII  Community Messenger VI  Community Messenger VIII  I voted: Fedora 38  Community Survey Taker 2023  I voted: Fedora 37  Called to Action  I voted: Fedora 40

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.