John 'Warthog9' Hawley led the system administration team on kernel.org for nearly a decade, leading a team including four other administrators. His other exploits include working on Syslinux, OpenSSI, a caching Gitweb, and patches to bind to enable GeoDNS. He's the author of PXE Knife, a set of interfaces around common utilities and diagnostics tools needed by an average systems administrator, as well as SyncDiff(erent) a state-full file synchronizer and file transfer mechanism. He currently works for VMware on upstream Open Source Software. In his free time he enjoys cooking extravagant meals and watching bad movies.
Once a quarter, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) accepts nominations for individuals within the Python community who have served the community in an appreciable way,...
