+Bdale Garbee, KB0G
+==================
+
+After retiring at the end of August, 2012, from my long-held position as
+[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://www.hp.com/united-states/Bdale-Garbee-External-Bio-V2.pdf)
+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 currently serve on the boards of
+the [Software Freedom Conservancy](https://sfconservancy.org),
+the [FreedomBox Foundation](http://freedomboxfoundation.org),
+and [Amateur Radio Digital Communications](http://ampr.org), where I am
+also the Treasurer / CFO.
+
+I served for a while on the board of the
+[Linux Professional Institute](http://lpi.org) helping it recover from
+some organizational trauma and transform to a membership-based entity.
+
+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 also served for several years on the board of the
+[Linux Foundation](http://linuxfoundation.org)
+representing the interests of developers and individuals.
+
+I remain actively involved in the [Debian](http://debian.org) project,
+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
+[Altus Metrum, LLC](http://altusmetrum.org) with business partner
+[Keith Packard](http://keithp.org). I hold a "Level 3 certification" and am
+a member of both the [National Association of Rocketry](http://nar.org)
+and the [Tripoli Rocketry Association](http://tripoli.org). My personal
+confirmed flight altitude record is 32,635 feet above ground, my highest
+recorded acceleration is 86 g, the heaviest project I ever built weighed 168
+pounds on the launch rail, and I've flown a rocket I designed and built
+that reached Mach 3.21. I served on the committee that defined the
+[Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/TMP), and am
+immensely proud that my son aced the test to become one of the earliest TMP
+participants.
+
+I miss the early days of the web, when it was mostly informative text...
+but if you're really curious, there are some pictures of me on my
+[bio page](bio/), and associated with the
+[Wikipedia page about me](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdale_Garbee). If you're
+a close friend or family member, email me for credentials to
+enter our [gallery](http://gallery.gag.com)..
+
+I'm most comfortable when there are lots of electrons flowing nearby, mostly
+in high-end computer equipment. There are only a few carbohydrates I've met in
+my life that I didn't like, I have very eclectic tastes in music, enjoy old
+movies, and I have this "German metal habit"... Porsche flavored. My
+current such toy is a 1984 Porsche 928S Euro, moss green metallic
+with beige interior and a dog-leg 5-speed.
+
+Over the years, I've spent a lot of my "spare time" on various facets of
+[Amateur Radio](rf/). KB0G is my current callsign, previously I was N3EUA
+and before that I was KA3ORU. I'm a life member of
+[AMSAT](http://amsat.org/),
+President of [CODE](http://gag.com/code/),
+a former Vice-President of [TAPR](http://tapr.org/),
+a past Chairman and member of the Technical Committee of
+the
+[Pikes Peak FM Association](http://www.ppfma.org), past board member
+of the [Pikes Peak Radio Amateur Association](http://ppraa.org),
+and a member of the
+[ARRL](http://www.arrl.org) and [QCWA](https://qcwa.org).
+Perhaps my best-known early contribution to the hobby was the silly little
+mail program I wrote for KA9Q's NOS networking software, called
+[BM](ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/mailers),
+though I suppose I'm more proud of my role as integrator and documentation
+author for the package prior to April 1989. I helped instigate N6GN's work on
+[10Ghz packet links](http://www.sonic.net/~n6gn/uwavelink/uwv.html),
+and continue to have a strong interest in data transmission over RF
+links. I was the project leader for the
+[GPS receiver](http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/phase3d/gps)
+experiment
+on the AMSAT Phase-3D satellite, which launched in November 2000,
+after which it was known as
+[AO-40](href="http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/sat_summary/ao40.php).
+I was also one of the developers of the RUDAK
+digital communications processor. My primary focus on the RUDAK team was
+communication with the other experiment modules that RUDAK talks to over the
+CAN bus... SCOPE, MONITOR, CEDEX, and the thermistor SmartNode boards. More
+recently, I led the design and delivery of the IHU design for the AMSAT-NA
+[Fox](http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1113) cubesat program, and one of my
+boards has been "in the stack" on every recent AMSAT-NA satellite.
+
+If you want to find me "on the air" for a QSO, about the only chance
+right now is to catch us
+[roving](http://gag.com/code/rover/) in a VHF/Microwave contest, or on the
+flight-line at a rocket launch.
+
+While I was "born and raised" in the era of 4.1BSD, shared a Vax 11/750
+with Eric Crane at CMU, and ran some flavor of BSD on at least one
+machine up until the [fire in 2013](http://gag.com/blackforestfire.html)
+ (the Symmetric S/375, a uVax2, BSD/OS,
+and NetBSD on a pc532), I have become a strong supporter of Linux
+particularly the [Debian GNU/Linux](http://www.debian.org)
+distribution, because of the emphasis on perpetual free availability of
+all of the source code to the system. I've contributed a few packages to
+the Debian effort, and now maintain a signficant number, including some that
+are essential packages in the base distribution, and some that are "big
+hairy monsters". At least it keeps me off the streets at night...
+
+Not sure how to pronounce "Linux"? Why not let Linus himself
+[tell you](ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.au)...
+
+In recent years, my son and I have become very active building and flying
+small and large model [rockets](http://gag.com/rockets). I hold a
+"Level 3 certification", and my personal confirmed
+flight altitude record is 32,635 feet above ground, my highest recorded
+acceleration is 86 g, and I've flown a rocket that reached Mach 3.21. I served
+on the committee that defined the
+[Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/TMP), and am
+proud that my son aced the test to become one of the earliest TMP
+participants. My current focus combines rocketry with my electronics
+background and strong interest in radio, see the
+[Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org)
+community web site for more details...