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