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 an early employee of Canonical Ltd and member of the Ubuntu project, where he worked in business development.[1][2] At OSCON in 2005, Waugh won "Best Evangelist" in the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards for his evangelism of Ubuntu and GNOME.[3][4] He announced his resignation from Canonical in July 2006 in order to focus more fully on his work in the GNOME project.[5]

As of 2007 Waugh and his wife are co-directors of Waugh Partners, an Australian Open Source consultancy launched in 2006.[6] Waugh Partners won the 2007 NSW State Pearcey Award for Young Achievers for their work promoting Free Software to the Australian ICT industry.[7] Waugh is a board member of the One Laptop Per Child Australia program.[8][9]

[edit] Positions

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

[edit] Other Free Software involvement

Waugh is an author of the Python weblog aggregator Planet.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bodnar, Ladislav. "Ubuntu: A Universal Bond of Sharing", LWN.net, 2004-09-22. Retrieved on 2008-05-09. 
  2. ^ Loli-Queru, Eugenia. "Interview with Jeff Waugh On Ubuntu Linux", OSNews, 2004-09-16. Retrieved on 2008-05-09. 
  3. ^ Awarded: $25G in Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards. osdir.com (2005-08-02). Retrieved on 2008-04-27.
  4. ^ Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame. Google. Retrieved on 2008-04-27.
  5. ^ Waugh, Jeff (2006-07-15). Swimming upstream. Retrieved on 2008-04-27.
  6. ^ Gedda, Rodney. "Waugh Partners to open up IT industry", Computerworld, 2006-11-23. Retrieved on 2008-04-27. 
  7. ^ Gedda, Rodney. "Waugh Partners win 2007 NSW Pearcey Award", Computerworld, 2007-12-07. Retrieved on 2008-05-07. 
  8. ^ Clark, Ashley. "Low cost OLPC program heads down under", iTnews, 2008-05-07. Retrieved on 2008-05-07. 
  9. ^ Board of Directors, OLPC Australia. OLPC Australia. Retrieved on 2008-05-09.
  10. ^ Untz, Vincent (2002-12-21). GNOME Foundation Elections results official. foundation-announce@gnome.org mailing list. Retrieved on 2008-05-09.
  11. ^ Untz, Vincent (2003-12-21). GNOME Foundation Elections results are now official. foundation-announce@gnome.org mailing list. Retrieved on 2008-05-09.
  12. ^ Mukhopadhyay, Sankarshan (2006-01-03). Results for the 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election. foundation-announce@gnome.org mailing list. Retrieved on 2008-05-09.
  13. ^ Cicek, Baris (2006-12-30). Results for the 2006 Fall Board of Directors Election. foundation-announce@gnome.org mailing list. Retrieved on 2008-05-09.
  14. ^ Cicek, Baris (2007-12-24). Results for the 2007 Fall Board of Directors Election. foundation-announce@gnome.org mailing list. Retrieved on 2008-05-09.
  15. ^ Contact - linux.conf.au 2007. Linux Australia. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
  16. ^ CSIRO (2006-01-24). "Annodex Foundation launch at Linux.conf.au" (PDF) (in English). Press release. Retrieved on 2008-05-09.
  17. ^ The Elected Committee of the Foundation for the Year 2005/2006. Annodex Association. Retrieved on 2008-05-09.
  18. ^ a b Previous Committees. Sydney Linux Users Group. Retrieved on 2008-04-27.

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