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Ben Cotton
Personal information
Location: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Homepage: https://funnelfiasco.com
E-mail: bcotton@fedoraproject.org
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#fedora-council,#fedora-devel,#fedora-mktg, #opensource.com​
Ham Radio: kc9fyx​
Twitter: funnelfiasco
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/

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