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I am a member of the Documentation Project in Fedora. I joined the Docs project in order to learn more about Fedora and to give back to the community.
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.
 
As my day job, I work in the Research Systems group at Purdue University.  My projects include our [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor Condor] implementation and testing a Hadoop setup.


== Contact ==
== Contact ==


'''Email''': [mailto:bcotton@fedoraproject.org bcotton@fedoraproject.org]
'''Email''': [mailto:bcotton@fedoraproject.org bcotton@fedoraproject.org]
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'''IRC''': ''bcotton'' on the [http://freenode.net freenode IRC network]
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== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==
=== My Badges ===
{{ #fedorabadges: bcotton }}
=== Documentation Project ===
=== Documentation Project ===
I mostly lurk in the Documentation Project, but I'm trying to make more contributions. I am currently coordinating the update of the RPM Guide.
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 have a [[User:Bcotton/DocBook_notes|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.

Revision as of 16:59, 26 June 2015

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

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 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.