Jeff Waugh
| 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 |
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Jeff Waugh (also known as "jdub") is an Australian free software and open source software developer. 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 in order 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] As of 2010[update] Waugh is the sole director of Waugh Partners, since Pia Waugh's move to a new career in 2009.
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 Free Software involvement [edit]
Waugh is an author of the Python weblog aggregator Planet.
References [edit]
- ^ Waugh, Jeff. "About Jeff Waugh". Retrieved 2008-07-08.
- ^ Bodnar, Ladislav (2004-09-22). "Ubuntu: A Universal Bond of Sharing". LWN.net. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ Loli-Queru, Eugenia (2004-09-16). "Interview with Jeff Waugh On Ubuntu Linux". OSNews. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ "Awarded: $25G in Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards". osdir.com. 2005-08-02. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
- ^ "Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame". Google. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
- ^ Waugh, Jeff (2006-07-15). "Swimming upstream". Retrieved 2008-04-27.
- ^ Gedda, Rodney (2006-11-23). "Waugh Partners to open up IT industry". Computerworld. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
- ^ Gedda, Rodney (2007-12-07). "Waugh Partners win 2007 NSW Pearcey Award". Computerworld. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
- ^ Clark, Ashley (2008-05-07). "Low cost OLPC program heads down under". iTnews. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Open Source Industry Australia. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
- ^ Untz, Vincent (2002-12-21). "GNOME Foundation Elections results official". foundation-announce@gnome.org mailing list. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-December/msg00005.html. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ Untz, Vincent (2003-12-21). "GNOME Foundation Elections results are now official". foundation-announce@gnome.org mailing list. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2003-December/msg00005.html. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ Mukhopadhyay, Sankarshan (2006-01-03). "Results for the 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election". foundation-announce@gnome.org mailing list. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-January/msg00000.html. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ Cicek, Baris (2006-12-30). "Results for the 2006 Fall Board of Directors Election". foundation-announce@gnome.org mailing list. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-December/msg00007.htmll. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ Cicek, Baris (2007-12-24). "Results for the 2007 Fall Board of Directors Election". foundation-announce@gnome.org mailing list. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2007-December/msg00002.html. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ Esfahbod, Behdad (2008-12-15). "Changes to the GNOME board". http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2008-December/msg00014.html. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
- ^ "Contact - linux.conf.au 2007". Linux Australia. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
- ^ "Annodex Foundation launch at Linux.conf.au" (PDF) (Press release). CSIRO. 2006-01-24. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ "The Elected Committee of the Foundation for the Year 2005/2006". Annodex Association. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ a b "Previous Committees". Sydney Linux Users Group. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
