Bdale Garbee
-Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist
-Hewlett-Packard Company
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-As HP's Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist, Bdale Garbee advises the
-lead technologists in other HP business units and other HP decision makers
-on technology and community aspects of Linux and Open Source applications.
-He mentors internal communities on how to productively participate in the
-Open Source development process, and encourages the adoption of Open Source
-software and principles across the company.
+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.
+Debian GNU/Linux to 5 architectures, served as Debian Project Leader, then
+chairman of the Debian Technical Committee for nearly a decade, and remains
+active in the Debian community.
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+In 2012, Bdale retired from HP, where he served as Chief Technologist for Open
+Source and Linux. After briefly working for Samsung as an open source advisor,
+Bdale returned to HP in 2014 as an HP Fellow in the Office of the CTO where
+for 25 months he led HP's open source strategy work before returning to
+retirement late in 2016. During his tenure, HP (later HPE) engaged in a wide
+variety of open source activities, and maintained consistent market leadership
+in the sale of servers and storage to Linux users.
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+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, the Freedombox Foundation, and
-Open Media Now. He is a frequent speaker at Linux and Open Source
-conferences, and works closely with various projects in the Open Source
-community.
+For a decade, Bdale served as President of Software in the Public Interest.
+He served nearly as long on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation
+representing individual affiliates and the developer community. Bdale
+currently serves on the boards of the Freedombox Foundation, Linux
+Professional Institute, and Aleph Objects. He is also a member of the
+Evaluations Committee at the Software Freedom Conservancy, and continues to
+speak at Linux and open source conferences from time to time.
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 and home shop machining, 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.
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