Bdale Garbee
Technologist and Community Builder

A contributor to the Free Software community since 1979, Bdale's background 
also includes many years of hardware design, Unix internals, and embedded 
systems work.  He was an early participant in the Debian project, helped port 
Debian GNU/Linux to 5 architectures, served as Debian Project Leader, is 
chairman of the Debian Technical Committee, and remains active in the Debian 
community.

In 2012, Bdale retired from HP, where he served as Chief Technologist for Open
Source and Linux.  During his tenure, HP engaged in a wide variety of 
Open Source activities, and maintained consistent market leadership in the 
sale of servers and storage to Linux users.

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.