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