11 Facts About Jeff Waugh

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Jeff Waugh is an Australian free software and open source software engineer.

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Jeff Waugh is known for his past prominence in the GNOME and Ubuntu projects and communities.

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In 2004, Jeff Waugh was hired by Mark Shuttleworth as an early employee of Canonical Ltd.

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At OSCON in 2005, Jeff Waugh won "Best Evangelist" in the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards for his evangelism of Ubuntu and GNOME.

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Jeff Waugh announced his resignation from Canonical in July 2006 to focus more fully on his work in the GNOME project.

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Jeff Waugh Partners won the 2007 NSW State Pearcey Award for Young Achievers for their work promoting Free Software to the Australian ICT industry.

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In 2008 Jeff Waugh was a partner of the One Laptop Per Child Australia program.

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In 2008 Pia Jeff Waugh moved to a new career; Jeff Waugh's later employers have included Bulletproof Networks and Kounta.

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

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Jeff Waugh is an author of the Python feed aggregator Planet.

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

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