FOSS.my 2008 is Over!
FOSS Developer Talk by Jeff Waugh
FOSS Talk by Jeff Waugh, Ubuntu, Gnome developer and consultant at Waugh Partners
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Aug 02, 2008 from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm |
| Where | OSCC, Cyberjaya |
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Meet Jeff Waugh or jdub who is here to share knowledge with the FOSS community here in Malaysia.
Location:
http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/13/20/
Speaker profile
By day, Jeff Waugh is a Principal Consultant with Waugh Partners, an Australian boutique consultancy specialising in Open Source strategy, industry development and research.
By night, he is an active participant in the GNOME project, promotes Software Freedom in beautiful, tiny parcels with the GNOME Mobile initiative, and plots the Open Source blogging explosion with Planet.
Waugh is an active member of the Free Software community, holding positions such as Chairman of the Annodex Foundation (2006), Director of the GNOME Foundation Board (2003-2004, 2006-present), GNOME Release Manager (2001-2005), committee member (2000-2001) and president (2002-2003) of the Sydney Linux Users’ Group, and member of the linux.conf.au 2001 and 2007 organising teams. He was one of the founding employees of Canonical, engaged in Ubuntu business and community development during its extraordinary rise (2004-2006).
In 2005, Waugh won the Google/O’Reilly Open Source award for Best Evangelist, which recognised his work on GNOME and Ubuntu. In 2007, Jeff and his partner Pia were the first duo to receive a Pearcey Foundation award, recognising their pioneering achievement and contribution to the Australian ICT industry.
