DUCK ALIGNMENT ACADEMY - Key Persons

Ben Cotton is the Open Source Community Lead at Kusari. He previously led open source strategy and messaging at Docker and before that was the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat for five years. This site, of course, does not represent the views of any current or past employer. Ben has been active in Fedora and other open source communities for over a decade. His career has taken him through the public and private sector in roles that include desktop support, high-performance computing administration, marketing, and program management. In addition to Program Management for Open Source Projects, Ben has contributed to the book Human at a Distance, and to articles in The Next Platform, Opensource.com, Scientific Computing, and more. Ben still lives in Lafayette, Indiana-a city he forgot to leave after graduating from Purdue University with a bachelor of science in synoptic meteorology and a master of science in IT project management. Should you feel brave, you can follow Ben on Mastodon, Bluesky, his personal website, or LinkedIn.