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 Barry has been writing and sharing open source and free software since his days at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the early 1980's. He even remembers his old arpanet and uucp email addresses.
He has been a free software and open source proponent and participant since before those terms came into common usage. Early contributions included work on GNU Emacs, various C and C++ libraries, and system administration tools and techniques.
Barry has been a core contributor to the Python language project since the mid-1990's, is a current member of the Python Software Foundation, and has served in roles such as release manager, PEP (Python Enhancement
Proposals) editor, and system administrator. Barry has led large open source projects such as Jython (formerly JPython), and he is the current project leader of GNU Mailman, a project on which he has contributed since the 1990's.
Barry works for Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu Linux, working primarily on the Launchpad project, a free software hosting site for open source projects.
He is currently working on version 3 of GNU Mailman, which will be a major new release.
Barry lives in the Washington DC area with his family. In his spare time, he practices Tai Chi. He is also an amateur musician, playing bass with many local DC area musicians, including The U-Liners, a roots rock band that plays for many labor, progressive, and other socially positive causes.
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"I could not have been more honored to be awarded the second Antonio Pizzigati Prize. In my more than 10 years working on GNU Mailman, I have been constantly and happily amazed at the wide variety of truly positive uses the software has been put to. I was further honored to meet Tony's family, and to learn that his parents Sam and Karabelle live just a few miles from me. The Pizzigatis felt like kindred spirits and though I never knew Tony, I can tell from meeting his parents what an outstanding and unique person he was."
--Barry Warsaw |