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