Jeff Waugh (also known as "jdub") is an Australian

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and

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software engineer. He is known for his past prominence in the

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and

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projects and communities.

Career

In 2004, Waugh was hired by

Mark Shuttleworth Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system. In 2002, Shuttleworth became the first African to travel to spa ...

as an early employee of

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and member of the

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, where he worked in

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. At OSCON in 2005, Waugh won "Best Evangelist" in the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards for his evangelism of Ubuntu and GNOME. He announced his resignation from Canonical in July 2006 to focus more fully on his work in the GNOME project. From 2007 Waugh and then-wife

Pia Waugh Pia Andrews (née Pia Smith, also formerly known as Pia Waugh), born 1979, is an open government leader and the ''Special Advisor, Digital & Client Data Workstream Lead'' for Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC). Andrews spearheade ...

were co-directors of Waugh Partners, an Australian Open Source consultancy launched in 2006. Waugh Partners won the 2007 NSW State

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for Young Achievers for their work promoting Free Software to the Australian ICT industry. In 2008 Waugh was a partner of the One Laptop Per Child Australia program. In 2008 Pia Waugh moved to a new career; Waugh's later employers have included Bulletproof Networks and Kounta.

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 Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) is an Australian body created to "further the cause of both Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)". Founded in 2004 by Arjen Lentz, Con Zymaris and Brendan Scott, OSIA was formed after discussions between prom ...

, 2008 * Director, the

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board, 2003–2004 and 2006–2008 * Member of the

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2007 organising team * Chairman of the

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Foundation 2005–2006 * GNOME release manager 2001–2005 * President of the Sydney Linux Users Group, 2002–2003 * Member of the committee of the Sydney Linux Users Group, 2000–2002. * Member of the linux.conf.au 2001 organising team

Other development projects

Waugh is an author of the

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Personal life

Waugh was married to fellow open-source advocate and community leader Pia Waugh until 2011. 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.

References

External links

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Software that 'just works'
– 2003 ''

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'' interview with Jeff Waugh *
Open sore on Planet GNOME
– 2008 ''iTWire'' story on Planet GNOME *
Open source survey: many questions remain
''iTWire'' story on OSS survey *
GNOME needs to get its act together
''iTWire'' story on GNOME project {{DEFAULTSORT:Waugh, Jeff Living people Open source people Free software programmers Year of birth missing (living people) Australian computer specialists GNOME developers Ubuntu (operating system) people People from Sydney Australian male bloggers