Jeff Waugh Explained

Jeff Waugh
Nationality:Australian
Other Names:jdub
Known For:Prominence in Free Software community, especially GNOME and Ubuntu

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.

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Ubuntu: A Universal Bond of Sharing. 22 September 2004. 9 May 2008. Bodnar. Ladislav. LWN.net.
  2. News: Interview with Jeff Waugh on Ubuntu Linux. Loli-Queru. Eugenia. 16 September 2004. 9 May 2008. OSNews.
  3. Web site: osdir.com. Awarded: $25G in Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards. 2 August 2005. 27 April 2008. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080430141315/http://osdir.com/Article6677.phtml. 30 April 2008. dmy-all.
  4. Web site: Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards – Hall of Fame. 27 April 2008.
  5. Web site: Waugh. Jeff. Swimming upstream. 15 July 2006. 27 April 2008.
  6. Waugh Partners to open up IT industry. 23 November 2006. 27 April 2008. Gedda. Rodney. Computerworld. https://web.archive.org/web/20070929084020/http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;765011692. 29 September 2007. dead. dmy-all.
  7. News: Waugh Partners win 2007 NSW Pearcey Award. Gedda. Rodney. 7 December 2007. 7 May 2008. Computerworld. https://web.archive.org/web/20080423234757/http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1630780103;fp;16;fpid;1. 23 April 2008. dead. dmy-all.
  8. News: Clark . Ashley . Low cost OLPC program heads down under . 7 May 2008 . 7 May 2008 . iTnews . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080509053635/http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=75455 . 9 May 2008 .
  9. Web site: Jeff Waugh . LinkedIn . . 2018-09-16 .
  10. Web site: Board of Directors . Open Source Industry Australia . 29 June 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080719214049/http://osia.net.au/board . 19 July 2008 .
  11. GNOME Foundation Elections results official . 21 December 2002 . 9 May 2008 . foundation-announce@gnome.org . Untz . Vincent.
  12. GNOME Foundation Elections results are now official . 21 December 2003 . 9 May 2008 . foundation-announce@gnome.org . Untz . Vincent.
  13. Results for the 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election . 3 January 2006 . 9 May 2008 . foundation-announce@gnome.org . Mukhopadhyay . Sankarshan.
  14. Results for the 2006 Fall Board of Directors Election . https://web.archive.org/web/20070110065353/http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-December/msg00007.html . live . 10 January 2007 . 30 December 2006 . 9 May 2008 . foundation-announce@gnome.org . Cicek . Baris .
  15. Results for the 2007 Fall Board of Directors Election . 24 December 2007 . 9 May 2008 . foundation-announce@gnome.org . Cicek . Baris.
  16. Changes to the GNOME board . Esfahbod . Behdad . Behdad Esfahbod . 15 December 2008 . 6 March 2009 .
  17. Web site: Contact – linux.conf.au 2007. 8 May 2008. Linux Australia. 2 July 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070702164700/http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2007/Contact.html. dead.
  18. Annodex Foundation launch at Linux.conf.au . . 24 January 2006 . 9 May 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071008101704/http://www.annodex.org/w/images/5/54/Press_Release_01242006.pdf . 8 October 2007 .
  19. Web site: The Elected Committee of the Foundation for the Year 2005/2006 . Annodex Association . 9 May 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081120085340/http://www.annodex.org/wiki/Committee_2005_2006 . 20 November 2008 .
  20. Web site: Sydney Linux Users Group . Previous Committees . 27 April 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080719072900/http://slug.org.au/previouscommittees.html . 19 July 2008 .
  21. Web site: Parting ways . Jeff . Waugh . Be the signal (blog) . 9 June 2011.
  22. Web site: Depression, and the fight of my life . Jeff . Waugh . Be the signal (blog) . 15 September 2011.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Jeff Waugh".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.