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Ben Cotton

I am an occasional contributor to and the former leader of the Fedora Docs group. I also co-maintain the condor packages. My day job is the Senior Support Engineer for Cycle Computing, a leader in cloud-based high-performance/high-throughput computing. I have degrees in meteorology and IT project management and have an unhealthy interest in researching open source licenses and communities.

Contact

Email: bcotton@fedoraproject.org


IRC: bcotton on the freenode IRC network


Other Information

  • GPG key: 0xAB46AA74
  • Location: Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Activities within Fedora

My Badges

  Involvement  Mugshot  Bloggin' it! (Planet III)  Bloggin' it! (Planet I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet II)  Embryo  Tadpole  Junior Badger (Badger I)  Egg  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer IV)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer III)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I)  Junior Editor  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer II)  Tadpole with Legs  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  Let Me Introduce Myself  Associate Editor  White Hat  Take this and call me in the morning  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Origin  Novice (Wordsmith I)  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  Macaron (Cookie I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  Bona Fide  Froglet  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  LISA16  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Council Member  Speak Up!  Vacation  Secretary General  Senior Editor  Riddle Me This  Top 500  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Helping Hand  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Community Messenger I  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  Flock 2018 Attendee  Rollercoaster Restaurant  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Black and White (Cookie III)  Crypto Badger  Community Messenger II  CommOps Superstar  Chief Editor  Common Bugs Contributor  I Voted: Fedora 29  It's a Cake Thing  Community Messenger III  DevConf 2019 Attendee  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  Grandmaster Editor  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Nuancier F30  Prolific!  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  Top 100  Flock 2019 Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  You’re on a boat!  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  Rockin' & Rollin'  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Readiness  I Voted: Fedora 31  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  It still works!  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  The Blessing of the FPL  Science (Kernel Tester I)  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Summer Coder  Extra!  Extra!  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  Master Badger (Badger III)  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Adult Frog  I Voted: Fedora 30  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  NeuroFedora SIG Member  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  The Panda Is In  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  I Voted: Fedora 32  Fedora Advocate  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  Rainbow (Cookie V)  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  Social Panda  nest-attendee-2020  iot-name-game  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  I Voted: Fedora 33  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  Lets have a party Fedora 33  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Magazine Editor  I Voted: Fedora 34  Lets have a party Fedora 34  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Akademy 2021  United Packages of Fedora  Learning from Sensei  Community Survey Taker I  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  Nest Attendee 2021  GUADEC 2021  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Museum Visitor  Science (Kernel Tester II)  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  Fedora Week of Diversity  Science (Kernel Tester III)  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 36  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Community Survey Taker 2022  GUADEC 2022  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  I voted: Fedora 37  IoT Working Group Member  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  Community Messenger VI  Called to Action  Community Messenger VIII  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Community Messenger VII  I voted: Fedora 38  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant  Community Survey Taker 2023  I voted: Fedora 39

Packaging

I am an owner or co-owner of

  • condor
  • wordgrinder
  • latex2html

Marketing

I joined the Marketing team in December 2017. I'm interested in starting an I am Fedora short video series.

Documentation Project

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 have a page of DocBook notes because I haven't found one elsewhere on the wiki. I also have a page of User:Bcotton/Useful_links because I can never seem to find what I'm looking for via the wiki search.