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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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Thanks for this great overview article! I've got a project I'm tinkering with now that will be made a *lot* easier with JSON-in-MySQL. Lots of hairy detail yet to go, but this is a great starting point. :)
I'm really looking forward to more attention to the notions and definitions of "meritocracy," and how we as practitioners can make them work and be healthy for *all* participants. As I said in my Open Source 101 talk, a meritocracy without a strong culture around a Code of Conduct can--and often does--empower lots of really abusive behavior among the people at the top of the group. (It does it quite transparently, which is in the Open Org definition, so I suppose it has that going for it... Everyone can *see* what a nasty piece of work those people are, if they want to.)
I'm looking forward to reading Manville's book, to see if it takes a holistic-enough approach to be able to address this sort of thing.