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 worked
8 part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com) as Senior Adviser to the Open
9 Source Group that is part of Samsung Research America. In September of 2014,
10 I was recruited back to HPE and served for 25 months as an
11 [HPE Fellow](http://www.hp.com/united-states/Bdale-Garbee-External-Bio-V2.pdf)
12 in Martin Fink's Office of the CTO at what became
13 [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](http://hpe.com), driving open source
14 strategy and advocacy for the company. At the end of September 2016, I
15 returned to early retirement... and am now enjoying "Retirement v2.0".
17 I currently serve on the boards of
18 the [Software Freedom Conservancy](https://sfconservancy.org),
19 the [FreedomBox Foundation](http://freedomboxfoundation.org),
20 and [Amateur Radio Digital Communications](http://ampr.org), where I am
21 also the Treasurer / CFO.
23 I served for a while on the board of the
24 [Linux Professional Institute](http://lpi.org) helping it recover from
25 some organizational trauma and transform to a membership-based entity.
27 I served for a decade as President of
28 [Software in the Public Interest](http://spi-inc.org), and as a member of
29 the board of directors for some time before that.
31 I also served for several years on the board of the
32 [Linux Foundation](http://linuxfoundation.org)
33 representing the interests of developers and individuals.
35 I remain actively involved in the [Debian](http://debian.org) project,
36 where I served for a year as the elected Debian Project Leader, and for nearly
37 a decade as Chairman of the Debian Technical Committee. I continue to maintain
38 various [packages](http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=bdale@gag.com)
41 My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with
42 [rockets](http://gag.com/rockets), which includes managing
43 [Altus Metrum, LLC](http://altusmetrum.org) with business partner
44 [Keith Packard](http://keithp.org).
46 I miss the early days of the web, when it was mostly informative text...
47 but if you're really curious, there are some pictures of me on my
48 [bio page](bio/), and associated with the
49 [Wikipedia page about me](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdale_Garbee). If you're
50 a close friend or family member, email me for credentials to
51 enter our [gallery](http://gallery.gag.com)..
53 I'm most comfortable when there are lots of electrons flowing nearby, mostly
54 in high-end computer equipment. There are only a few carbohydrates I've met in
55 my life that I didn't like, I have very eclectic tastes in music, enjoy old
56 movies, and I have this "German metal habit"... Porsche flavored. My
57 current such toy is a 1984 Porsche 928S Euro, moss green metallic
58 with beige interior and a dog-leg 5-speed.
60 Over the years, I've spent a lot of my "spare time" on various facets of
61 [Amateur Radio](rf/). KB0G is my current callsign, previously I was N3EUA
62 and before that I was KA3ORU. I'm a life member of
63 [AMSAT](http://amsat.org/),
64 President of [CODE](http://gag.com/code/),
65 a former Vice-President of [TAPR](http://tapr.org/),
66 a past Chairman and member of the Technical Committee of
68 [Pikes Peak FM Association](http://www.ppfma.org), past board member
69 of the [Pikes Peak Radio Amateur Association](http://ppraa.org),
71 [ARRL](http://www.arrl.org).
72 Perhaps my best-known early contribution to the hobby was the silly little
73 mail program I wrote for KA9Q's NOS networking software, called
74 [BM](ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/mailers),
75 though I suppose I'm more proud of my role as integrator and documentation
76 author for the package prior to April 1989. I helped instigate N6GN's work on
77 [10Ghz packet links](http://www.sonic.net/~n6gn/uwavelink/uwv.html),
78 and continue to have a strong interest in data transmission over RF
79 links. I was the project leader for the
80 [GPS receiver](http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/phase3d/gps)
82 on the AMSAT Phase-3D satellite, which launched in November 2000,
83 after which it was known as
84 [AO-40](href="http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/sat_summary/ao40.php).
85 I was also one of the developers of the RUDAK
86 digital communications processor. My primary focus on the RUDAK team was
87 communication with the other experiment modules that RUDAK talks to over the
88 CAN bus... SCOPE, MONITOR, CEDEX, and the thermistor SmartNode boards. More
89 recently, I led the design and delivery of the IHU design for the AMSAT-NA
90 [Fox](http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1113) cubesat program, and one of my
91 boards has been "in the stack" on every recent AMSAT-NA satellite.
93 If you want to find me "on the air" for a QSO, about the only chance
94 right now is to catch us
95 [roving](http://gag.com/code/rover/) in a VHF/Microwave contest, or on the
96 flight-line at a rocket launch.
98 While I was "born and raised" in the era of 4.1BSD, shared a Vax 11/750
99 with Eric Crane at CMU, and ran some flavor of BSD on at least one
100 machine up until the [fire in 2013](http://gag.com/blackforestfire.html)
101 (the Symmetric S/375, a uVax2, BSD/OS,
102 and NetBSD on a pc532), I have become a strong supporter of Linux
103 particularly the [Debian GNU/Linux](http://www.debian.org)
104 distribution, because of the emphasis on perpetual free availability of
105 all of the source code to the system. I've contributed a few packages to
106 the Debian effort, and now maintain a signficant number, including some that
107 are essential packages in the base distribution, and some that are "big
108 hairy monsters". At least it keeps me off the streets at night...
110 Not sure how to pronounce "Linux"? Why not let Linus himself
111 [tell you](ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.au)...
113 In recent years, my son and I have become very active building and flying
114 small and large model [rockets](http://gag.com/rockets). I hold a
115 "Level 3 certification", and my personal confirmed
116 flight altitude record is 32,635 feet above ground, my highest recorded
117 acceleration is 86 g, and I've flown a rocket that reached Mach 3.21. I served
118 on the committee that defined the
119 [Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/TMP), and am
120 proud that my son aced the test to become one of the earliest TMP
121 participants. My current focus combines rocketry with my electronics
122 background and strong interest in radio, see the
123 [Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org)
124 community web site for more details...
126 * [Bdale's blog](blog)
127 * [Bdale's biographical information](bio)
128 * [Garbee Gallery](http://gallery.gag.com)
129 * [Quotations](quotes.html)
130 * [Talks Bdale has Given](talks/)
132 Cool Stuff on the Web
133 ---------------------
135 * [Cabell Garbee](http://www.garbee.net/~cabell), Bdale's brother, restores
136 neat old vehicles as a hobby.
137 * [Allen B. Loyd](http://sites.google.com/site/allenloyd/Home),
138 one of Bdale's first cousins, has a site documenting his theatrical set
139 designs, paintings, and other fun stuff.
140 * [Space Machine & Engineering Corp](http://space-machine.com),
141 operated by another of Bdale's first cousins. It's kind of cool
142 having a waveguide company in the family!
143 * [Graves Mountain Lodge](http://www.gravesmountain.com),
144 owned and operated by "my extended family" in Virginia. We used to
145 visit often... and still get back once in a while!
146 * Visit the [Radio Farm](http://www.rf.org/)... a most unusual place!
147 * [Colorado Satellite Services](http://www.coloradosatellite.com)
148 Jim and I worked closely together on AO-40 RUDAK, and he's definitely
149 "one of the good guys". The EyasSAT educational satellite system
150 linked to from his page is neat stuff.
153 [maternal grandfather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale),
154 who was a prominent individual in his time. While my father is the serious
155 genealogist in our family, every once in a while I go do a web search on
156 various family names. These are some references to Granddaddy that I have
160 [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale)!
161 * A [photo](http://digitalcollections.vmi.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15821coll7/id/2862/rec/1) of him
162 from 1919, in uniform.
163 * He was a [Judge of the United States Court](http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/uGetInfo?jid=97)
164 * Many of his papers were gifted to the
165 [University of Virginia Library](http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/vivadoc.pl?file=viu00129.xml)
166 * There are scholarships in his name at
167 [VMI](http://www.vmi.edu/media/content-assets/documents/human-resources/Faculty-Handbook.pdf) and
168 [Hollins](http://www.hollins.edu).
171 I've been asked from time to time if I'm any relation to the Barksdale for whom
172 [Barksdale Air Force Base](http://www.barksdale.af.mil) was named. My parents
174 [Eugene Hoy Barksdale](http://www.barksdale.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4409)
175 was my third cousin twice removed. I had the chance to visit the base museum
176 in the fall of 2016, and I must say I'm proud of his accomplishments!
178 Encrypting email is good. My currently preferred public key is
180 pub rsa4096 2019-10-21 [SC]
181 1E0B AAD8 5C22 32A1 B3CE 92EB B704 7105 830B 9FA1
182 uid [ unknown] Bdale Garbee <bdale@debian.org>
183 uid [ unknown] Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
184 sub rsa4096 2019-10-21 [E]
186 You should be able to fetch that key from any of the major keyservers.