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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  Tadpole with Legs  Junior Editor  Origin  Novice (Wordsmith I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  Macaron (Cookie I)  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  LISA16  Council Member  Riddle Me This  Senior Editor  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Flock 2018 Attendee  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Community Messenger II  Chief Editor  It's a Cake Thing  I Voted: Fedora 29  DevConf 2019 Attendee  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Nuancier F30  Prolific!  Flock 2019 Attendee  Top 100  I Voted: Fedora 31  Readiness  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  nest-attendee-2020  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  I Voted: Fedora 33  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Learning from Sensei  Community Survey Taker I  United Packages of Fedora  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  GUADEC 2021  Museum Visitor  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Lets have a party Fedora 35  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 36  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)  Bona Fide  I voted: Fedora 41  Froglet  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  Speak Up!  Vacation  Secretary General  Top 500  Community Messenger I  Rollercoaster Restaurant  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Crypto Badger  Common Bugs Contributor  Black and White (Cookie III)  Community Messenger III  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  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)  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)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Fedora Advocate  I Voted: Fedora 32  Rainbow (Cookie V)  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  iot-name-game  Social Panda  Lets have a party Fedora 33  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Akademy 2021  Science (Kernel Tester II)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  GUADEC 2022  IoT Working Group Member  I voted: Fedora 37  Called to Action  I voted: Fedora 38  Community Survey Taker 2023  I voted: Fedora 40  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)  Take this and call me in the morning  Associate Editor  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Helping Hand  Senior Badger (Badger II)  CommOps Superstar  Grandmaster Editor  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  You’re on a boat!  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  Rockin' & Rollin'  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  It still works!  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Adult Frog  I Voted: Fedora 30  Extra!  Extra!  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  The Blessing of the FPL  NeuroFedora SIG Member  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  The Panda Is In  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  Magazine Editor  I Voted: Fedora 34  Lets have a party Fedora 34  Nest Attendee 2021  Fedora Week of Diversity  Science (Kernel Tester III)  Community Survey Taker 2022  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Let's have a party (Fedora 40)  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  Community Messenger VII  Community Messenger VI  Community Messenger VIII  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant  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.