Jeff Waugh

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name = Jeff Waugh

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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.

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. [cite news|title=Ubuntu: A Universal Bond of Sharing|url=http://lwn.net/Articles/102510/|date=2004-09-22|accessdate=2008-05-09|last=Bodnar|first=Ladislav|publisher=LWN.net] [cite news|url=http://www.osnews.com/story/8286|title=Interview with Jeff Waugh On Ubuntu Linux|last=Loli-Queru|first=Eugenia|date=2004-09-16|accessdate=2008-05-09|publisher=OSNews] At OSCON in 2005, Waugh won "Best Evangelist" in the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards for his evangelism of Ubuntu and GNOME. [cite web|publisher=osdir.com|url=http://www.osdir.com/Article6677.phtml|title=Awarded: $25G in Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards|date=2005-08-02|accessdate=2008-04-27] [cite web|publisher=Google|url=http://code.google.com/opensource/osa-hall-of-fame.html|title=Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame|accessdate=2008-04-27] He announced his resignation from Canonical in July 2006 in order to focus more fully on his work in the GNOME project. [cite web|last=Waugh|first=Jeff|title=Swimming upstream|url=http://bethesignal.org/blog/2006/07/15/swimming-upstream/|date=2006-07-15|accessdate=2008-04-27]

As of 2007 Waugh and his wife are co-directors of Waugh Partners, an Australian Open Source consultancy launched in 2006. [cite news|url=http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;765011692|title=Waugh Partners to open up IT industry|date=2006-11-23|accessdate=2008-04-27|last=Gedda|first=Rodney|publisher=Computerworld] Waugh Partners won the 2007 NSW State Pearcey Award for Young Achievers for their work promoting Free Software to the Australian ICT industry. [cite news|url=http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1630780103;fp;16;fpid;1|title=Waugh Partners win 2007 NSW Pearcey Award|last=Gedda|first=Rodney|date=2007-12-07|accessdate=2008-05-07|work=Computerworld] Waugh is a board member of the One Laptop Per Child Australia program. [cite news|last=Clark|first=Ashley|url=http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=75455|title=Low cost OLPC program heads down under|date=2008-05-07|accessdate=2008-05-07|work=iTnews] [cite web|title=Board of Directors, OLPC Australia|url=http://www.olpc.org.au/about/board/|publisher=OLPC Australia|accessdate=2008-05-09]

Positions

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–current [cite web|url=http://osia.net.au/board|title=Board of Directors|publisher=Open Source Industry Australia|accessdate=2008-06-29]
* Director, the GNOME Foundation board, 2003–2004 [cite mailing list |url=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-December/msg00005.html |title=GNOME Foundation Elections results official |date=2002-12-21 |accessdate=2008-05-09 |mailinglist=[e-mail] |last=Untz |first=Vincent] [cite mailing list |url=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2003-December/msg00005.html |title=GNOME Foundation Elections results are now official |date=2003-12-21 |accessdate=2008-05-09 |mailinglist=[e-mail] |last=Untz |first=Vincent] and 2006–current [cite mailing list |url=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-January/msg00000.html |title=Results for the 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election |date=2006-01-03 |accessdate=2008-05-09 |mailinglist=[e-mail] |last=Mukhopadhyay |first=Sankarshan] [cite mailing list |url=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-December/msg00007.htmll |title=Results for the 2006 Fall Board of Directors Election |date=2006-12-30 |accessdate=2008-05-09 |mailinglist=[e-mail] |last=Cicek |first=Baris] [cite mailing list |url=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2007-December/msg00002.html |title=Results for the 2007 Fall Board of Directors Election |date=2007-12-24 |accessdate=2008-05-09 |mailinglist=[e-mail] |last=Cicek |first=Baris]
* Member of the linux.conf.au 2007 organising team [cite web|url=http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2007/Contact.html|title=Contact - linux.conf.au 2007|accessdate=2008-05-08|publisher=Linux Australia]
* Chairman of the Annodex Foundation 2005–2006 [cite press release |title=Annodex Foundation launch at Linux.conf.au |publisher=CSIRO |date=2006-01-24 |url=http://www.annodex.org/w/images/5/54/Press_Release_01242006.pdf |format=PDF |language=English |accessdate=2008-05-09 ] [cite web|title=The Elected Committee of the Foundation for the Year 2005/2006|publisher=Annodex Association|accessdate=2008-05-09|url=http://annodex.org/wiki/Committee_2005_2006]
* GNOME release manager 2001–2005
* President of the Sydney Linux Users Group, 2002–2003cite web|publisher=Sydney Linux Users Group|url=http://www.slug.org.au/previouscommittees.html|title=Previous Committees|accessdate=2008-04-27]
* Member of the committee of the Sydney Linux Users Group, 2000–2002
* Member of the linux.conf.au 2001 organising team

Other Free Software involvement

Waugh is an author of the Python weblog aggregator Planet.

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