Ben Cotton

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Lafayette, Indiana

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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Authored Content

Navigating the challenges of international teamwork

24 Pull Requests challenge encourages fruitful contributions

16,720 pull requests were opened. Of those, 10,327 were merged and 1,240 were closed.

The new Raspberry Pi Compute Module, FSF's 2017 priorities, and more open source news

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the new Raspberry Pi compute module, the FSF's 2017 priorities, a new open data portal, and more…

Best of Opensource.com: Science

Check out the top 10 open science articles of 2016.

2016 Hacktoberfest ignites open source participation

Registration was up more than 97% over 2015.

10 open source tools for your sysadmin toolbox

We've rounded up a handy list of open source tools for admins.

10 tips for making your documentation crystal clear

So you've some written excellent documentation. Now what? Now it's time to go back and edit it. When you first sit down to write your documentation, you want to focus on what…