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, represents Debian on the Ubuntu
-Technical Board, and remains active in the Debian community.
+chairman of the Debian Technical Committee, 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. 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.
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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.
+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.
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