| Ben Cotton | |
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| Personal information | |
| Pronouns: | he/him/his |
| Location: | Lafayette, Indiana, USA |
| Homepage: | https://funnelfiasco.com |
| E-mail: | bcotton@fedoraproject.org |
| Contact information | |
| Ham Radio: | kc9fyx |
| LinkedIn: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/ |
| Fediverse: | @funnelfiasco@hachyderm.io |
| GitHub: | funnelfiasco
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| Fedora-specific information | |
| FAS name: | bcotton |
| Fedora e-mail: | bcotton@fedoraproject.org |
| Fedora homepage: | bcotton.fedorapeople.org |
Ben Cotton
Greetings! I'm Ben, author of Program Management for Open Source Projects and long-time Fedora contributor. What I do in Fedora is below. If you're interested in what I do the rest of the time, you can read Duck Alignment Academy or my personal blog.
Activities in Fedora
Packaging
I am an maintainer or co-maintainer of
- wordgrinder
- latex2html
I also maintain Copr builds for
QA
I occasionally contribute to QA activities, mostly by upgrading to the next release prior to the Beta release and enabling updates-testing. I also frequently vote on blockers/freeze exceptions.
Former activities
Community Blog
I was Editor in Chief of the Community Blog from 2019–2023.
Docs
My first foray into Fedora was joining the Docs team in 2009. 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. I still pop in every once in a while to offer opinions and minor contributions.
Magazine
I was one of the Fedora Magazine Editors from 2019-2021.
Fedora Program Manager
I was the Fedora Program Manager (FPgM) frpm June 2018 until I was laid off by Red Hat in May 2023. I wrangled the changes, managed the schedule, and generally helped herd the cats. As the FPgM, I often found myself jumping into many areas to help out when needed.