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 was recruited
8 to return in September of 2014 and am now an
9 [HPE Fellow](http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c04839247)
10 in Martin Fink's Office of the CTO at
11 [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](http://hpe.com), where I drive open source
12 strategy and advocacy for the company. During my retirement, from September
13 through December of 2013, I worked part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com)
14 as Senior Adviser to the Open Source Group that is part of Samsung Research
17 I serve on the boards of the [Linux Foundation](http://linuxfoundation.org)
18 the [FreedomBox Foundation](http://freedomboxfoundation.org), and
19 [Aleph Objects](http://alephobjects.com), and as
20 President of [Software in the Public Interest](http://spi-inc.org).
22 I remain actively involved in the [Debian](http://debian.org) project,
23 where I served for a year as the elected Debian Project Leader, and for many
24 years as Chairman of the Debian Technical Committee. I continue to maintain
25 various [packages](http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=bdale@gag.com)
28 My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with
29 [rockets](http://gag.com/rockets), which includes managing
30 [Altus Metrum, LLC](http://altusmetrum.org) with business partner
31 [Keith Packard](http://keithp.org).
33 I miss the early days of the web, when it was mostly informative text...
34 but if you're really curious, there are some pictures of me on my
35 [bio page](bio/), and associated with the
36 [Wikipedia page about me](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdale_Garbee). If you're
37 a close friend or family member, email me for credentials to
38 enter our [gallery](http://gallery.gag.com)..
40 I'm most comfortable when there are lots of electrons flowing nearby, mostly
41 in high-end computer equipment. There are only a few carbohydrates I've met in
42 my life that I didn't like, I have very eclectic tastes in music, enjoy old
43 movies, and I have this "German metal habit"... Porsche flavored. My
44 current such toy is a 1984 Porsche 928S Euro, moss green metallic
45 with beige interior and a dog-leg 5-speed.
47 Over the years, I've spent a lot of my "spare time" on various facets of
48 [Amateur Radio](rf/). KB0G is my current callsign, previously I was N3EUA
49 and before that I was KA3ORU. I'm a life member of
50 [AMSAT](http://amsat.org/),
51 President of [CODE](http://gag.com/code/),
52 a former Vice-President of [TAPR](http://tapr.org/),
53 a past Chairman and member of the Technical Committee of
55 [Pikes Peak FM Association](http://www.ppfma.org), past board member
56 of the [Pikes Peak Radio Amateur Association](http://ppraa.org),
58 [ARRL](http://www.arrl.org).
59 Perhaps my best-known early contribution to the hobby was the silly little
60 mail program I wrote for KA9Q's NOS networking software, called
61 [BM](ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/mailers),
62 though I suppose I'm more proud of my role as integrator and documentation
63 author for the package prior to April 1989. I helped instigate N6GN's work on
64 [10Ghz packet links](http://www.sonic.net/~n6gn/uwavelink/uwv.html),
65 and continue to have a strong interest in data transmission over RF
66 links. I was the project leader for the
67 [GPS receiver](http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/phase3d/gps)
69 on the AMSAT Phase-3D satellite, which launched in November 2000,
70 after which it was known as
71 [AO-40](href="http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/sat_summary/ao40.php).
72 I was also one of the developers of the RUDAK
73 digital communications processor. My primary focus on the RUDAK team was
74 communication with the other experiment modules that RUDAK talks to over the
75 CAN bus... SCOPE, MONITOR, CEDEX, and the thermistor SmartNode boards. More
76 recently, I led the design and delivery of the IHU design for the AMSAT-NA
77 [Fox](http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1113) cubesat program.
79 If you want to find me "on the air" for a QSO, about the only chance
80 right now is to catch us
81 [roving](http://gag.com/code/rover/) in a VHF/Microwave contest, or on the
82 flight-line at a rocket launch.
84 While I was "born and raised" in the era of 4.1BSD, shared a Vax 11/750
85 with Eric Crane at CMU, and ran some flavor of BSD on at least one
86 machine up until the [fire in 2013](http://gag.com/blackforestfire.html)
87 (the Symmetric S/375, a uVax2, BSD/OS,
88 and NetBSD on a pc532), I have become a strong supporter of Linux
89 particularly the [Debian GNU/Linux](http://www.debian.org)
90 distribution, because of the emphasis on perpetual free availability of
91 all of the source code to the system. I've contributed a few packages to
92 the Debian effort, and now maintain a signficant number, including some that
93 are essential packages in the base distribution, and some that are "big
94 hairy monsters". At least it keeps me off the streets at night...
96 Not sure how to pronounce "Linux"? Why not let Linus himself
97 [tell you](ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.au)...
99 In recent years, my son and I have become very active building and flying
100 small and large model [rockets](http://gag.com/rockets). I hold a
101 "Level 3 certification", and am a federally-licensed user of
102 low explosives, which means I'm authorized to buy, store, and fly the largest
103 motors currently available in the rocket hobby. My personal confirmed
104 flight altitude record is 21,654 feet above ground, my highest recorded
105 acceleration is 86 g, and I've flown a rocket to beyond Mach 2.2. I served
106 on the committee that defined the [Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/Certifications/TripoliMentoringProgram/tabid/322/Default.aspx), and am
107 proud that my son aced the test to become one of the earliest TMP
108 participants. My current focus combines rocketry with my electronics
109 background and strong interest in radio, see the
110 [Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org)
111 community web site for more details...
113 * [Bdale's blog](blog)
114 * [Bdale's biographical information](bio)
115 * [Garbee Gallery](http://gallery.gag.com)
116 * [Quotations](quotes.html)
117 * [Talks Bdale has Given](talks/)
119 Cool Stuff on the Web
120 ---------------------
122 * [Cabell Garbee](http://www.garbee.net/~cabell), Bdale's brother, restores
123 neat old vehicles as a hobby.
124 * [Allen B. Loyd](href="http://sites.google.com/site/allenloyd/Home),
125 one of Bdale's first cousins, has a site documenting his theatrical set
126 designs, paintings, and other fun stuff.
127 * [Space Machine & Engineering Corp](http://space-machine.com),
128 operated by another of Bdale's first cousins. It's kind of cool
129 having a waveguide company in the family!
130 * [Graves Mountain Lodge](http://www.gravesmountain.com),
131 owned and operated by "my extended family" in Virginia. We used to
132 visit often... and still get back once in a while!
133 * Visit the [Radio Farm](http://www.rf.org/)... a most unusual place!
134 * [Colorado Satellite Services](http://www.coloradosatellite.com)
135 Jim and I worked closely together on AO-40 RUDAK, and he's definitely
136 "one of the good guys". The EyasSAT educational satellite system
137 linked to from his page is neat stuff.
140 [maternal grandfather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale),
141 who was a prominent individual in his time. While my father is the serious
142 genealogist in our family, every once in a while I go do a web search on
143 various family names. These are some references to Granddaddy that I have
147 [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale)!
148 * A [photo](http://digitalcollections.vmi.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15821coll7/id/2862/rec/1) of him
149 from 1919, in uniform.
150 * He was a [Judge of the United States Court](http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/uGetInfo?jid=97)
151 * Many of his papers were gifted to the
152 [University of Virginia Library](http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/vivadoc.pl?file=viu00129.xml)
153 * There are scholarships in his name at
154 [VMI](http://www.vmiaa.org/AA/Alumni%20Association/Scholar.html) and
155 [Hollins](http://www.hollins.edu/admissions/scholarship/need_based.htm)
158 I've been asked from time to time if I'm any relation to the Barksdale for whom
159 [Barksdale Air Force Base](http://www.barksdale.af.mil) was named. My parents
161 [Eugene Hoy Barksdale](http://www.barksdale.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4409) was my third cousin twice removed.
163 Encrypting email is good. My currently preferred public key is
165 pub 4096R/C095D941 2009-07-26
166 Key fingerprint = 8470 F20B 0625 9218 7CBA 7BB3 3A93 6196 C095 D941
167 uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
168 uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@hp.com>
169 uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@debian.org>
170 sub 4096R/166755FB 2009-07-26
172 You should be able to fetch that key from any of the major keyservers.