Open Source activities, and maintained consistent market leadership in the
sale of servers and storage to Linux users.
+Altus Metrum, LLC, is a small business Bdale founded with Keith Packard that
+designs, builds, and sells completely open hardware and open source avionics
+solutions for use in high power model rockets.
+
Bdale serves as President of Software in the Public Interest, and on the
boards of directors of the Linux Foundation and the Freedombox Foundation.
He is a frequent speaker at Linux and Open Source conferences.
In 2008, Bdale became the first individual recipient of a Lutece d'Or award
from the Federation Nationale de l'Industrie du Logiciel Libre in France.
-Beyond his work at HP, Bdale engages in a wide variety of personal activities.
-His most significant hobbies are high-powered model rocketry and amateur radio,
-where he is widely known for his contributions to packet radio, weak-signal
-communications, software defined radio, and building amateur satellites.
+Bdale engages in a wide variety of personal activities. In addition to
+high-powered model rocketry, he is widely known for his contributions to
+the amateur radio hobby including packet radio, weak-signal communications,
+software defined radio, and building amateur satellites.