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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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It's true! The community kind of collectively scoffed at the whole idea of Standards of Conduct for a while; a few folks seemed to think it would damp down the fun. But once it became clear that all it really does is enumerate "Don't be a jerk!" by explaining what is meant by that, the community moved along, and the increased attention to the "Don't be a jerk!" ethos has helped with some of the more outrageous characters.
Why, thank you, Mark! :D I'd love to make it over there some time!