Jeff Waugh

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Jeff Waugh in Dunedin in January 2006.
Jeff Waugh in Dunedin in January 2006.

Jeff Waugh (known as "jdub") is an Australian free software and open source software developer. He is a consultant for Waugh Partners and is very active in the GNOME free software community. He is married to Pia Waugh — another active member of the free software community in Australia.

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[edit] Career

In 2004, Waugh was hired by Mark Shuttleworth as a founding member of Canonical Ltd and the Ubuntu project, where he worked in business development. At OSCON in 2005, Waugh won "Best Evangelist" in the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards for his evangelism of Ubuntu and GNOME. He announced his resignation from Canonical in July 2006 in order to focus more fully on his work in the GNOME project.

As of 2007 Waugh and his wife are co-directors of Waugh Partners, an Australian Open Source consultancy launched in 2006.[1]

[edit] Positions

Waugh has served in a number of formal and semi-formal positions in Free Software projects:

  • Member of the linux.conf.au 2007 organising team
  • Chairman of the Annodex Foundation as of 2006
  • Director, the GNOME Foundation board, 2003–2004 and current as of 2006
  • GNOME release manager 2001–2005
  • President of the Sydney Linux Users Group, 2002–2003
  • Member of the committee of the Sydney Linux Users Group, 2001–2002
  • Member of the linux.conf.au 2001 organising team

[edit] Other Free Software involvement

Waugh is an author of the Python weblog aggregator Planet.

Jeff is well known for humorous speeches and for the phrases, "Rock 'n' roll!" and "Awesome! Awesome!"

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