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