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.
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.
+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.
-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.
+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.
+
+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 remains
+on the board of the Freedombox Foundation and Aleph Objects, 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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