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