Jeff Waugh

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=https://lwn.net/Articles/102510/|date=22 September 2004|access-date=9 May 2008|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=16 September 2004|access-date=9 May 2008|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=2 August 2005|access-date=27 April 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430141315/http://osdir.com/Article6677.phtml|archive-date=30 April 2008|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|url=https://code.google.com/opensource/osa-hall-of-fame.html|title=Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards – Hall of Fame|access-date=27 April 2008}} He announced his resignation from Canonical in July 2006 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=15 July 2006|access-date=27 April 2008}}

From 2007 Waugh and then-wife Pia Waugh were co-directors of Waugh Partners, an Australian Open Source consultancy launched in 2006.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;765011692|title=Waugh Partners to open up IT industry|date=23 November 2006|access-date=27 April 2008|last=Gedda|first=Rodney|magazine=Computerworld|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929084020/http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;765011692|archive-date=29 September 2007|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} 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=7 December 2007|access-date=7 May 2008|work=Computerworld|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423234757/http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1630780103;fp;16;fpid;1|archive-date=23 April 2008|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} In 2008 Waugh was a partner 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=7 May 2008 |access-date=7 May 2008 |work=iTnews |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509053635/http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=75455 |archive-date= 9 May 2008 }} In 2008 Pia Waugh moved to a new career; Waugh's later employers have included Bulletproof Networks and Kounta.{{cite web |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwaugh/ |title=Jeff Waugh |website= LinkedIn |author= |access-date=2018-09-16 }}

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{{cite web|url=http://osia.net.au/board |title=Board of Directors |publisher=Open Source Industry Australia |access-date=29 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719214049/http://osia.net.au/board |archive-date=19 July 2008 }}
• 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=21 December 2002 |access-date=9 May 2008 |mailing-list=foundation-announce@gnome.org |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=21 December 2003 |access-date=9 May 2008 |mailing-list=foundation-announce@gnome.org |last=Untz |first=Vincent}}

and 2006–2008

{{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=3 January 2006 |access-date=9 May 2008 |mailing-list=foundation-announce@gnome.org |last=Mukhopadhyay |first=Sankarshan}}

{{cite mailing list|url=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-December/msg00007.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070110065353/http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-December/msg00007.html |url-status=live |archive-date=10 January 2007 |title=Results for the 2006 Fall Board of Directors Election |date=30 December 2006 |access-date=9 May 2008 |mailing-list=foundation-announce@gnome.org |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=24 December 2007 |access-date=9 May 2008 |mailing-list=foundation-announce@gnome.org |last=Cicek |first=Baris}}

{{cite mailing list | url=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2008-December/msg00014.html | title = Changes to the GNOME board | last = Esfahbod | first = Behdad | author-link=Behdad Esfahbod | date = 15 December 2008 | access-date = 6 March 2009 }}

• 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|access-date=8 May 2008|publisher=Linux Australia|archive-date=2 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702164700/http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2007/Contact.html|url-status=dead}}
• Chairman of the Annodex Foundation 2005–2006{{cite press release|title=Annodex Foundation launch at Linux.conf.au |publisher=CSIRO |date=24 January 2006 |url=http://www.annodex.org/w/images/5/54/Press_Release_01242006.pdf |access-date=9 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008101704/http://www.annodex.org/w/images/5/54/Press_Release_01242006.pdf |archive-date= 8 October 2007 }}{{cite web|title=The Elected Committee of the Foundation for the Year 2005/2006 |publisher=Annodex Association |access-date=9 May 2008 |url=http://annodex.org/wiki/Committee_2005_2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120085340/http://www.annodex.org/wiki/Committee_2005_2006 |archive-date=20 November 2008 }}
• GNOME release manager 2001–2005
• President of the Sydney Linux Users Group, 2002–2003{{cite web|publisher=Sydney Linux Users Group |url=http://www.slug.org.au/previouscommittees.html |title=Previous Committees |access-date=27 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719072900/http://slug.org.au/previouscommittees.html |archive-date=19 July 2008 }}
• Member of the committee of the Sydney Linux Users Group, 2000–2002.
• Member of the linux.conf.au 2001 organising team

Waugh is an author of the Python feed aggregator Planet.

Waugh was married to fellow open-source advocate and community leader Pia Waugh until 2011.{{cite web |url=http://bethesignal.org/blog/2011/06/09/parting-ways/ |title=Parting ways |first=Jeff |last=Waugh |publisher=Be the signal (blog) |date=9 June 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.{{cite web |url=http://bethesignal.org/blog/2011/09/15/depression-and-the-fight-of-my-life/ |title=Depression, and the fight of my life |first=Jeff |last=Waugh |publisher=Be the signal (blog) |date=15 September 2011}}

{{Reflist|30em}}

• "[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/21/1045638481419.html Software that 'just works']" – 2003 Sydney Morning Herald interview with Jeff Waugh
• "[https://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/17924-open-sore-on-planet-gnome Open sore on Planet GNOME]" – 2008 iTWire story on Planet GNOME
• "[https://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/18177-open-source-survey-many-questions-remain Open source survey: many questions remain]" iTWire story on OSS survey
• "[https://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/30289-gnome-needs-to-get-its-act-together GNOME needs to get its act together]" iTWire story on GNOME project

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