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