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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  Tadpole with Legs  Junior Editor  Take this and call me in the morning  Origin  Novice (Wordsmith I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  Macaron (Cookie I)  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  Bona Fide  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Speak Up!  Vacation  Helping Hand  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  CommOps Superstar  DevConf 2019 Attendee  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  You’re on a boat!  I Voted: Fedora 31  Science (Kernel Tester I)  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Summer Coder  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  NeuroFedora SIG Member  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  The Panda Is In  I Voted: Fedora 32  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  iot-name-game  Social Panda  Lets have a party Fedora 33  Learning from Sensei  Community Survey Taker I  United Packages of Fedora  Akademy 2021  Science (Kernel Tester II)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  SCaLE 19x Attendee  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)  Let Me Introduce Myself  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  White Hat  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Froglet  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  Council Member  Riddle Me This  Senior Editor  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Flock 2018 Attendee  Community Messenger II  Common Bugs Contributor  Black and White (Cookie III)  Community Messenger III  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Nuancier F30  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  Readiness  I Voted: Fedora 30  Extra!  Extra!  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  Master Badger (Badger III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Rainbow (Cookie V)  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Magazine Editor  I Voted: Fedora 34  Lets have a party Fedora 34  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  Lets have a party Fedora 36  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  Community Messenger VII  Community Messenger VI  Community Messenger VIII  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant  I voted: Fedora 39  GUADEC 2022  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Let's have a party (Fedora 40)  Associate Editor  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  I voted: Fedora 41  LISA16  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Secretary General  Top 500  Community Messenger I  Rollercoaster Restaurant  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Crypto Badger  Chief Editor  It's a Cake Thing  I Voted: Fedora 29  Grandmaster Editor  Prolific!  Flock 2019 Attendee  Top 100  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  Rockin' & Rollin'  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  It still works!  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Adult Frog  The Blessing of the FPL  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Fedora Advocate  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  nest-attendee-2020  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  I Voted: Fedora 33  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  GUADEC 2021  Nest Attendee 2021  Museum Visitor  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Fedora Week of Diversity  Science (Kernel Tester III)  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  Community Survey Taker 2022  IoT Working Group Member  I voted: Fedora 37  Called to Action  I voted: Fedora 38  Community Survey Taker 2023  I voted: Fedora 40

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.