Ruth Holloway

2063 points

Houston, TX

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.

Open Source Champion Best Interview Award 2017 Author Columnist

Authored Content

Code ninjas earn "belts" with CoderDojo

In 2014, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted that the IT industry in the US would grow by 18% before 2022; in software development, the increases ranged…

Love for Perl unites diverse community

I've used Perl for several years, beginning in 2002 on Solaris, then moving to Debian and working on Koha in 2008. Surprisingly (bafflingly, in retrospect), I had not…

Authored Comments

druthb

16 Feb 2017

Generate random data for your applications with Elizabeth

You're welcome, Seth! :)

druthb

2 Feb 2017

Building your own personal cloud with Cozy

I wasn't aware of Nextcloud! As I noted above, comparing Cozy to other similar open source projects is, IMO, a fantastic idea, so I'm going to set out doing that. I'm working with the editorial team to do that over the next couple of months.