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

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