4 Welcome to my "new" personal home page.
6 After retiring at the end of August, 2012, from my long-held position as
7 [HP](http://hp.com) Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist... I am now back
9 [HP Fellow](http://www.hp.com/united-states/Bdale-Garbee-External-Bio-V2.pdf)
10 in the Office of the CTO helping to drive open source strategy
11 and advocacy for the company. During my retirement, from September
12 through December of 2013, I worked part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com)
13 as Senior Adviser to the Open Source Group that is part of Samsung Research
16 I serve on the boards of the [Linux Foundation](http://linuxfoundation.org)
17 the [FreedomBox Foundation](http://freedomboxfoundation.org), and
18 [Aleph Objects](http://alephobjects.com), and as
19 President of [Software in the Public Interest](http://spi-inc.org).
21 I remain actively involved in the [Debian](http://debian.org) project,
22 where I continue to maintain various
23 [packages](http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=bdale@gag.com),
24 and am a member of the
25 [Debian Technical Committee](http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte)
27 My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with
28 [rockets](http://gag.com/rockets), which includes managing
29 [Altus Metrum, LLC](http://altusmetrum.org) with business partner
30 [Keith Packard](http://keithp.org).
32 I miss the early days of the web, when it was mostly informative text...
33 but if you're really curious, there are some pictures of me on my
34 [bio page](bio/), and associated with the
35 [Wikipedia page about me](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdale_Garbee). If you're
36 a close friend or family member, email me for credentials to
37 enter our [gallery](http://gallery.gag.com)..
39 I'm most comfortable when there are lots of electrons flowing nearby, mostly
40 in high-end computer equipment. There are only a few carbohydrates I've met in
41 my life that I didn't like, I have very eclectic tastes in music, enjoy old
42 movies, and I have this "German metal habit"... Porsche flavored. My
43 current such toy is a 1984 Porsche 928S Euro, moss green metallic
44 with beige interior and a dog-leg 5-speed.
46 Over the years, I've spent a lot of my "spare time" on various facets of
47 [Amateur Radio](rf/). KB0G is my current callsign, previously I was N3EUA
48 and before that I was KA3ORU. I'm a life member of
49 [AMSAT](http://amsat.org/),
50 President of [CODE](http://gag.com/code/),
51 a former Vice-President of [TAPR](http://tapr.org/),
52 a past Chairman and member of the Technical Committee of
54 [Pikes Peak FM Association](http://www.ppfma.org), past board member
55 of the [Pikes Peak Radio Amateur Association](http://ppraa.org),
57 [ARRL](http://www.arrl.org).
58 Perhaps my best-known early contribution to the hobby was the silly little
59 mail program I wrote for KA9Q's NOS networking software, called
60 [BM](ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/mailers),
61 though I suppose I'm more proud of my role as integrator and documentation
62 author for the package prior to April 1989. I helped instigate N6GN's work on
63 [10Ghz packet links](http://www.sonic.net/~n6gn/uwavelink/uwv.html),
64 and continue to have a strong interest in data transmission over RF
65 links. I was the project leader for the
66 [GPS receiver](http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/phase3d/gps)
68 on the AMSAT Phase-3D satellite, which launched in November 2000,
69 after which it was known as
70 [AO-40](href="http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/sat_summary/ao40.php).
71 I was also one of the developers of the RUDAK
72 digital communications processor. My primary focus on the RUDAK team was
73 communication with the other experiment modules that RUDAK talks to over the
74 CAN bus... SCOPE, MONITOR, CEDEX, and the thermistor SmartNode boards. More
75 recently, I led the design and delivery of the IHU design for the AMSAT-NA
76 [Fox](http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1113) cubesat program.
78 If you want to find me "on the air" for a QSO, about the only chance
79 right now is to catch us
80 [roving](http://gag.com/code/rover/) in a VHF/Microwave contest, or on the
81 flight-line at a rocket launch.
83 While I was "born and raised" in the era of 4.1BSD, shared a Vax 11/750
84 with Eric Crane at CMU, and ran some flavor of BSD on at least one
85 machine up until the [fire in 2013](http://gag.com/blackforestfire.html)
86 (the Symmetric S/375, a uVax2, BSD/OS,
87 and NetBSD on a pc532), I have become a strong supporter of Linux
88 particularly the [Debian GNU/Linux](http://www.debian.org)
89 distribution, because of the emphasis on perpetual free availability of
90 all of the source code to the system. I've contributed a few packages to
91 the Debian effort, and now maintain a signficant number, including some that
92 are essential packages in the base distribution, and some that are "big
93 hairy monsters". At least it keeps me off the streets at night...
95 Not sure how to pronounce "Linux"? Why not let Linus himself
96 [tell you](ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.au)...
98 In recent years, my son and I have become very active building and flying
99 small and large model [rockets](http://gag.com/rockets). I hold a
100 "Level 3 certification", and am a federally-licensed user of
101 low explosives, which means I'm authorized to buy, store, and fly the largest
102 motors currently available in the rocket hobby. My personal confirmed
103 flight altitude record is 21,654 feet above ground, my highest recorded
104 acceleration is 86 g, and I've flown a rocket to beyond Mach 2.2. I served
105 on the committee that defined the [Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/Certifications/TripoliMentoringProgram/tabid/322/Default.aspx), and am
106 proud that my son aced the test to become one of the earliest TMP
107 participants. My current focus combines rocketry with my electronics
108 background and strong interest in radio, see the
109 [Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org)
110 community web site for more details...
112 * [Bdale's blog](blog)
113 * [Bdale's biographical information](bio)
114 * [Garbee Gallery](http://gallery.gag.com)
115 * [Quotations](quotes.html)
116 * [Talks Bdale has Given](talks/)
118 Cool Stuff on the Web
119 ---------------------
121 * [Cabell Garbee](http://www.garbee.net/~cabell), Bdale's brother, restores
122 neat old vehicles as a hobby.
123 * [Allen B. Loyd](href="http://sites.google.com/site/allenloyd/Home),
124 one of Bdale's first cousins, has a site documenting his theatrical set
125 designs, paintings, and other fun stuff.
126 * [Space Machine & Engineering Corp](http://space-machine.com),
127 operated by another of Bdale's first cousins. It's kind of cool
128 having a waveguide company in the family!
129 * [Graves Mountain Lodge](http://www.gravesmountain.com),
130 owned and operated by "my extended family" in Virginia. We used to
131 visit often... and still get back once in a while!
132 * Visit the [Radio Farm](http://www.rf.org/)... a most unusual place!
133 * [Colorado Satellite Services](http://www.coloradosatellite.com)
134 Jim and I worked closely together on AO-40 RUDAK, and he's definitely
135 "one of the good guys". The EyasSAT educational satellite system
136 linked to from his page is neat stuff.
139 [maternal grandfater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale),
140 who was a prominent individual in his time. While my father is the serious
141 genealogist in our family, every once in a while I go do a web search on
142 various family names. These are some references to Grandaddy that I have
146 [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale)!
147 * A [photo](http://digitalcollections.vmi.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15821coll7/id/2862/rec/1) of him
148 from 1919, in uniform.
149 * He was a [Judge of the United States Court](http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/uGetInfo?jid=97)
150 * Many of his papers were gifted to the
151 [University of Virginia Library](http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/vivadoc.pl?file=viu00129.xml)
152 * There are scholarships in his name at
153 [VMI](http://www.vmiaa.org/AA/Alumni%20Association/Scholar.html) and
154 [Hollins](http://www.hollins.edu/admissions/scholarship/need_based.htm)
157 I've been asked from time to time if I'm any relation to the Barksdale for whom
158 [Barksdale Air Force Base](http://www.barksdale.af.mil) was named. My parents
160 [Eugene Hoy Barksdale](http://www.barksdale.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4409) was my third cousin twice removed.
162 Encrypting email is good. My currently preferred public key is
164 pub 4096R/C095D941 2009-07-26
165 Key fingerprint = 8470 F20B 0625 9218 7CBA 7BB3 3A93 6196 C095 D941
166 uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
167 uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@hp.com>
168 uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@debian.org>
169 sub 4096R/166755FB 2009-07-26
171 You should be able to fetch that key from any of the major keyservers.