Australian programmer
Jeff Waugh (also known as "jdub") is an Australianfree software andopen source software engineer. He is known for his past prominence in theGNOME andUbuntu projects and communities.
In 2004, Waugh was hired byMark Shuttleworth as an early employee ofCanonical Ltd. and member of theUbuntu project , where he worked inbusiness development .[ 1] [ 2] OSCON in 2005, Waugh won "Best Evangelist" in theGoogle-O'Reilly Open Source Awards for his evangelism of Ubuntu and GNOME.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
From 2007 Waugh and then-wifePia Waugh were co-directors of Waugh Partners, an Australian Open Source consultancy launched in 2006.[ 6] Pearcey Award for Young Achievers for their work promoting Free Software to the Australian ICT industry.[ 7] One Laptop Per Child Australia program.[ 8] [ 9]
Waugh has served in a number of formal and semi-formal positions in Free Software development and community projects:
Other development projects [ edit ] Waugh is an author of thePython feed aggregator Planet .
Waugh was married to fellow open-source advocate and community leader Pia Waugh until 2011.[ 21] 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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