Ben Cotton

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Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.

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8 ways to contribute to open source when you have no time

That's a great point, Greg. For one project, probably a good third of my contributions over the years has been as a mailing-list-to-Bugzilla interface. Bug tracking systems can be intimidating to casual users, so reporting bugs on someone's behalf is not only useful to the code, but also to the community.