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