for topics that cannot be discussed on the public council-discuss list.

  Council members are also often present on the *#fedora-council* IRC

  If you have an issue to be worked on by the Council you can also open a

  ticket on the https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets[Council Pagure

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  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bcotton[Ben Cotton] is the current FPgM. He joined Red Hat after a decade in high performance computing (HPC) administration and marketing. Ben first started contributing to Fedora in 2009 as a member — and later leader — of the Fedora Docs team. He is a community moderator for Opensource.com and co-founded HackLafayette — a local tech meetup group.

  == Roles and Responsibilities ==

  when he moved to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to work on high performance computing and this up-and-coming “cloud” thing.

  He has been at Red Hat since 2012, first working on Fedora Cloud and becoming FPL in June, 2014.

  as https://twitter.com/mattdm[@mattdm] on Twitter, or

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