Jeff Waugh

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Jeff Waugh
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Jeff Waugh speaking at GUADEC
NationalityAustralian
Other namesjdub
Known forProminence in Free Software community, especially GNOME and Ubuntu
Website bethesignal.org

Jeff Waugh (also known as "jdub") is an Australian free software and open source software engineer. He is known for his past prominence in the GNOME and Ubuntu projects and communities.

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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 to focus more fully on his work in the GNOME project. [5]

From 2007 Waugh and then-wife Pia Waugh were 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] In 2008 Waugh was a partner of the One Laptop Per Child Australia program. [8] In 2008 Pia Waugh moved to a new career; Waugh's later employers have included Bulletproof Networks and Kounta. [9]

Positions

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

Other development projects

Waugh is an author of the Python feed aggregator Planet.

Personal life

Waugh was married to fellow open-source advocate and community leader Pia Waugh 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]

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  13. ↑ Mukhopadhyay, Sankarshan (3 January 2006). "Results for the 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election". foundation-announce@gnome.org (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 May 2008.
  14. ↑ Cicek, Baris (30 December 2006). "Results for the 2006 Fall Board of Directors Election". foundation-announce@gnome.org (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 10 January 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
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  20. 1 2 "Previous Committees". Sydney Linux Users Group. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
  21. ↑ Waugh, Jeff (9 June 2011). "Parting ways". Be the signal (blog).
  22. ↑ Waugh, Jeff (15 September 2011). "Depression, and the fight of my life". Be the signal (blog).
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