Jeff Waugh was robbed in Montreal. As a result, he will be returning to Australia rather than complete his tour. For those who don’t know Jeff, here’s a bio from the O’Reilly European OpenSource Convention:

By day, Jeff Waugh works on Ubuntu business and community development for Canonical. By night, he rides shotgun on the GNOME release juggernaut and plots the Open Source blogging explosion with Planet. Waugh is an active member of the FOSS community, holding positions such as Director of the GNOME Foundation Board (2003-2005), president of the Sydney Linux User’s Group (2002-2004), and member of the linux.conf.au 2001 organising team. He is a card-carrying member of Linux Australia, but does not say “mate”.

Here’s the message sent out by Erin this morning to the Utah OpenSource Coalition and other local email lists:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: UUG Meeting Cancelled!
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:58:45 -0700
From: TuxGirl 
To: utosc (aT) utosc.org

We are cancelling the meeting for Tuesday, November 15, because of the
following occurance.

Jeff Waugh, the was-to-be presenter for Tuesday night's UUG meeting
was robbed while in Montreal. ( http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/blog/ )  
Most of his documents, his money, his credit card, and other important
stuff was stolen.  Without his gear and with no funds, we've been
informed he had to return home to Australia.

We apologize for the last minute notice At the moment we don't know if
we will be able to reschedule the meeting or not. Since we had been
planning on having this meeting on Tuesday this week, we will not have
the usual 3rd-Thursday meeting.

Thank you for your patience,
~Erin Sharmahd

This event is truly unfortunate for Jeff. I hope he is able to return safely. There are really some jerks out there. It’s unfortunate that this had to happen to someone that gives so much to the community.