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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)  Junior Badger (Badger I)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer IV)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer III)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer II)  Tadpole with Legs  Junior Editor  Take this and call me in the morning  Associate Editor  Novice (Wordsmith I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  Macaron (Cookie I)  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  Bona Fide  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  Council Member  Riddle Me This  Senior Editor  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Flock 2018 Attendee  CommOps Superstar  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  You’re on a boat!  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  Rockin' & Rollin'  Science (Kernel Tester I)  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Summer Coder  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  NeuroFedora SIG Member  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  The Panda Is In  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  nest-attendee-2020  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  I Voted: Fedora 33  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Learning from Sensei  Nest Attendee 2021  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Fedora Week of Diversity  Science (Kernel Tester III)  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Let Me Introduce Myself  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  White Hat  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Origin  Froglet  LISA16  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Speak Up!  Secretary General  Top 500  Community Messenger I  Rollercoaster Restaurant  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Crypto Badger  Chief Editor  Common Bugs Contributor  It's a Cake Thing  I Voted: Fedora 29  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  Nuancier F30  Prolific!  Flock 2019 Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Adult Frog  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  Master Badger (Badger III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Rainbow (Cookie V)  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  Social Panda  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Magazine Editor  Community Survey Taker I  Akademy 2021  Science (Kernel Tester II)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  Community Survey Taker 2022  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  I voted: Fedora 39  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Vacation  Helping Hand  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Community Messenger II  Black and White (Cookie III)  Community Messenger III  DevConf 2019 Attendee  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Grandmaster Editor  Top 100  I Voted: Fedora 31  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  It still works!  Readiness  I Voted: Fedora 30  Extra!  Extra!  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  The Blessing of the FPL  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Fedora Advocate  I Voted: Fedora 32  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  iot-name-game  Lets have a party Fedora 33  I Voted: Fedora 34  Lets have a party Fedora 34  United Packages of Fedora  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  GUADEC 2021  Museum Visitor  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  GUADEC 2022  IoT Working Group Member  Community Messenger VII  Community Messenger VI  Community Messenger VIII  Community Survey Taker 2023  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant  Lets have a party Fedora 36  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  I voted: Fedora 37  Called to Action  I voted: Fedora 38  I voted: Fedora 40  Let's have a party (Fedora 40)

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.