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

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.