Ben Cotton

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Lafayette, Indiana

Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.

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Authored Content

8 ways to contribute to open source when you have no time

SPDX clears confusion around software licenses

Software Package Data Exchange makes it easier to understand the rights and responsibilities granted by different software licenses.

How open science evolved in 2017

Check out the top six articles on open source software and science from 2017.

Why the open source community needs a diverse supply chain

When source code is your supply chain, community inclusivity is absolutely imperative. Here's why.

Happy 60th birthday, Fortran

Fortran may be trending down on Google, but its foundational role in scientific applications ensure that it won't be retiring anytime soon.

Top 5: .NET for Linux, a guide to cron, GPL confusion, and more

Take a look back at the week's most popular articles.

Top 5: Building great CLIs, an open source 2D gaming engine, and more

Top 5: Your first programming language, running Windows apps on Linux, and more

We round up five of the week's most popular articles.

Authored Comments

bcotton

9 Apr 2019

5 open source mobile apps

"Have you ever needed to run an awk script on your phone?" I can't say that I have. I installed Termux a while back and have never found a case where I need it. What use cases have you found for it?

bcotton

19 Mar 2019

Why you should take the jobs no one else wants

One thing I like about stepping into broken situations is that the bar for success is lower. It's counterintuitively less stressful because any success is an improvement over the status quo. This can be a great opportunity to boost confidence.