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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


Social media


Other Information

  • GPG key: keybase
  • Location: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
  • Timezone: America/Indiana/Indianapolis
  • Website: funnelfiasco.com

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