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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  Bloggin' it! (Planet III)  Bloggin' it! (Planet I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet II)  Embryo  Tadpole  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  Take this and call me in the morning  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  I voted: Fedora 41  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  Secretary General  Top 500  Helping Hand  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Community Messenger I  Rollercoaster Restaurant  CommOps Superstar  Black and White (Cookie III)  It's a Cake Thing  DevConf 2019 Attendee  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  Prolific!  You’re on a boat!  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  It still works!  Readiness  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Summer Coder  Master Badger (Badger III)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Rainbow (Cookie V)  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  Lets have a party Fedora 33  I Voted: Fedora 34  Learning from Sensei  Community Survey Taker I  Akademy 2021  Museum Visitor  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Community Survey Taker 2022  IoT Working Group Member  Community Messenger VII  Egg  Tadpole with Legs  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Associate Editor  Novice (Wordsmith I)  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  Bona Fide  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Froglet  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Council Member  Riddle Me This  Senior Editor  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Community Messenger II  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Nuancier F30  Flock 2019 Attendee  Top 100  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  I Voted: Fedora 31  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  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  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  nest-attendee-2020  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  I Voted: Fedora 33  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Magazine Editor  Lets have a party Fedora 34  United Packages of Fedora  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  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  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  I voted: Fedora 37  Community Messenger VI  Community Messenger VIII  Called to Action  I voted: Fedora 38  I voted: Fedora 39  I voted: Fedora 40  Let's have a party (Fedora 40)  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)  Macaron (Cookie I)  LISA16  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Speak Up!  Vacation  Flock 2018 Attendee  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Crypto Badger  Chief Editor  Common Bugs Contributor  Community Messenger III  I Voted: Fedora 29  Grandmaster Editor  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Rockin' & Rollin'  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  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  Fedora Advocate  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  iot-name-game  Social Panda  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  GUADEC 2021  Nest Attendee 2021  Science (Kernel Tester II)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  GUADEC 2022  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Community Survey Taker 2023  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant

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.