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