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

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.