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Ruth Holloway has been a system administrator and software developer for a long, long time, getting her professional start on a VAX 11/780, way back when. She spent a lot of her career (so far) serving the technology needs of libraries, and has been a contributor since 2008 to the Koha open source library automation suite. Ruth is currently a Perl developer and project lead at Clearbuilt. You can find out more about Ruth's passions and career at her site. She's a mother, grandmother, wife, artist, public speaker, and mommy to the cutest little dog you'll ever meet.
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I'm really impressed with the cleverness of the OpenHAB community--they've learned how to hack all kinds of things up and make them work!
I've been researching home automation for *months* now for my new home, and was kind of resigned to spending a lot of money on proprietary hardware. But in looking at OpenHAB, I think it'll do the trick just fine! It's so nifty, and I'd not even heard about it. I've submitted a Nooks & Crannies article on OpenHAB for April, in fact...