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

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.