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