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