Welcome to my "new" personal home page.
After retiring at the end of August, 2012, from my long-held position as
-[HP](http://hp.com) Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist... I am now back
-as an
-[HP Fellow](http://www.hp.com/united-states/Bdale-Garbee-External-Bio-V2.pdf)
-in the Office of the CTO helping to drive open source strategy
-and advocacy for the company. During my retirement, from September
-through December of 2013, I worked part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com)
-as Senior Adviser to the Open Source Group that is part of Samsung Research
-America.
+[HP](http://hp.com) Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist... I worked
+part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com) as Senior Adviser to the Open
+Source Group that is part of Samsung Research America. In September of 2014,
+I was recruited back to HPE and served for 25 months as an
+[HPE Fellow](http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c04839247)
+in Martin Fink's Office of the CTO at what became
+[Hewlett Packard Enterprise](http://hpe.com), driving open source
+strategy and advocacy for the company. At the end of September 2016, I
+returned to early retirement... and am now enjoying "Retirement v2.0".
I serve on the boards of the [Linux Foundation](http://linuxfoundation.org)
the [FreedomBox Foundation](http://freedomboxfoundation.org), and
-[Aleph Objects](http://alephobjects.com), and as
-President of [Software in the Public Interest](http://spi-inc.org).
+[Aleph Objects](http://alephobjects.com).
+
+I served for a decade as President of
+[Software in the Public Interest](http://spi-inc.org), and as a member of
+the board of directors for some time before that.
I remain actively involved in the [Debian](http://debian.org) project,
-where I continue to maintain various
-[packages](http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=bdale@gag.com),
-and am a member of the
-[Debian Technical Committee](http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte)
+where I served for a year as the elected Debian Project Leader, and for nearly
+a decade as Chairman of the Debian Technical Committee. I continue to maintain
+various [packages](http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=bdale@gag.com)
+for Debian.
My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with
[rockets](http://gag.com/rockets), which includes managing
linked to from his page is neat stuff.
I was named for my
-[maternal grandfater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale),
+[maternal grandfather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale),
who was a prominent individual in his time. While my father is the serious
genealogist in our family, every once in a while I go do a web search on
-various family names. These are some references to Grandaddy that I have
+various family names. These are some references to Granddaddy that I have
found:
* He now has a
pub 4096R/C095D941 2009-07-26
Key fingerprint = 8470 F20B 0625 9218 7CBA 7BB3 3A93 6196 C095 D941
uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
-uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@hp.com>
uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@debian.org>
sub 4096R/166755FB 2009-07-26
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