Jeff Waugh
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Jeff Waugh speaking at GUADEC
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Other names | jdub |
| Occupation | Principal consultant[1] |
| Employer | Waugh Partners |
| Known for | Prominence in Free Software community, especially GNOME and Ubuntu |
| Website | Be the signal |
Jeff Waugh (also known as "jdub") is an Australian free software and open source software engineer. He is a consultant for Waugh Partners and is known for his past prominence in the GNOME and Ubuntu projects and communities.
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Career[edit]
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.[2][3] At OSCON in 2005, Waugh won "Best Evangelist" in the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards for his evangelism of Ubuntu and GNOME.[4][5] He announced his resignation from Canonical in July 2006 to focus more fully on his work in the GNOME project.[6]
From 2007 Waugh and then-wife Pia Waugh were co-directors of Waugh Partners, an Australian Open Source consultancy launched in 2006.[7] Waugh Partners won the 2007 NSW State Pearcey Award for Young Achievers for their work promoting Free Software to the Australian ICT industry.[8] In 2008 Waugh was a partner of the One Laptop Per Child Australia program.[9] From 2009–2011 Waugh was the sole director of Waugh Partners, following Pia Waugh's move to a new career. From 2011 onwards he has been employed by Bulletproof Networks.
Positions[edit]
Waugh has served in a number of formal and semi-formal positions in Free Software development and community projects:
- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, 2008[10]
- Director, the GNOME Foundation board, 2003–2004[11][12] and 2006–2008[13][14][15][16]
- Member of the linux.conf.au 2007 organising team[17]
- Chairman of the Annodex Foundation 2005–2006[18][19]
- GNOME release manager 2001–2005
- President of the Sydney Linux Users Group, 2002–2003[20]
- Member of the committee of the Sydney Linux Users Group, 2000–2002.[20]
- Member of the linux.conf.au 2001 organising team
Other development projects[edit]
Waugh is an author of the Python feed aggregator Planet.
Personal life[edit]
Waugh was married to fellow open-source advocate and community leader Pia Waugh née Smith until 2011.[21] He wrote on his blog in September 2011, on the occasion of RUOK? Day, that he had been struggling with depression since his late teens, and that it had been a contributing factor to the divorce, but that he felt he had overcome it.[22]
References[edit]
- ^ Waugh, Jeff. "About Jeff Waugh". Retrieved 8 July 2008.
- ^ Bodnar, Ladislav (22 September 2004). "Ubuntu: A Universal Bond of Sharing". LWN.net. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ Loli-Queru, Eugenia (16 September 2004). "Interview with Jeff Waugh on Ubuntu Linux". OSNews. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ "Awarded: $25G in Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards". osdir.com. 2 August 2005. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ "Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards – Hall of Fame". Google. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ Waugh, Jeff (15 July 2006). "Swimming upstream". Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ Gedda, Rodney (23 November 2006). "Waugh Partners to open up IT industry". Computerworld. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ Gedda, Rodney (7 December 2007). "Waugh Partners win 2007 NSW Pearcey Award". Computerworld. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
- ^ Clark, Ashley (7 May 2008). "Low cost OLPC program heads down under". iTnews. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Open Source Industry Australia. Retrieved 29 June 2008.
- ^ Untz, Vincent (21 December 2002). "GNOME Foundation Elections results official". foundation-announce@gnome.org (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ Untz, Vincent (21 December 2003). "GNOME Foundation Elections results are now official". foundation-announce@gnome.org (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ Mukhopadhyay, Sankarshan (3 January 2006). "Results for the 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election". foundation-announce@gnome.org (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ Cicek, Baris (30 December 2006). "Results for the 2006 Fall Board of Directors Election". foundation-announce@gnome.org (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ Cicek, Baris (24 December 2007). "Results for the 2007 Fall Board of Directors Election". foundation-announce@gnome.org (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ Esfahbod, Behdad (15 December 2008). "Changes to the GNOME board" (Mailing list). Retrieved 6 March 2009.
- ^ "Contact – linux.conf.au 2007". Linux Australia. Retrieved 8 May 2008.
- ^ "Annodex Foundation launch at Linux.conf.au" (PDF) (Press release). CSIRO. 24 January 2006. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ "The Elected Committee of the Foundation for the Year 2005/2006". Annodex Association. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ a b "Previous Committees". Sydney Linux Users Group. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ Waugh, Jeff (9 June 2011). "Parting ways". Be the signal (blog).
- ^ Waugh, Jeff (15 September 2011). "Depression, and the fight of my life". Be the signal (blog).
External links[edit]
- "Software that 'just works'" – 2003 Sydney Morning Herald interview with Jeff Waugh
