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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


Social media


Other Information

  • GPG key: keybase
  • Location: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
  • Timezone: America/Indiana/Indianapolis
  • Website: funnelfiasco.com

Activities within Fedora

My Badges

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

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.