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John Hawley

John 'Warthog9' Hawley was recognized as a Python Fellow by the Python Software Foundation (PSF) in Q1 of 2022 for helping to bring new contributors to the Python ecosystem and making the Python Google Summer of Code Organization and its several projects and communities run efficiently. He 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.

Author's Posts

Community

Of Builds and Packaging

One of the greatest things about most Linux distributions is the availability of pre-compiled software packages that you can, usually, through some very quick commands,...

John Hawley
August 30, 2022
Community

For Why Are They Such Jolly Good Python Fellows?

John Hawley
May 31, 2022
Community

Overriding GitHub Defaults: A Nifty Tip

John Hawley
March 10, 2022
Projects

Reconsidering How and What We Trace

John Hawley
December 21, 2021
Projects

Ktest with VMware Guest

John Hawley
August 31, 2021
Features

Cake, Candles and Reboot() System Calls

John Hawley
June 29, 2020
Features

My Insanely Complex Personal Firewall - And Why It Actually Makes Sense

John Hawley
January 21, 2020
Features

What Does 2020 Have in Store? Our Open Source Engineers Explain

Malini Bhandaru, Tim Pepper, John Hawley
December 18, 2019
Projects

With Ansible, Wrangle the Data Center’s Tangle of Technology

John Hawley
September 10, 2019
Community

How to Interact with and Grow Your Open Source Community

John Hawley
April 30, 2019

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