Bdale Garbee, KB0G
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-Welcome to my "new" personal home page.
-
After retiring at the end of August, 2012, from my long-held position as
[HP](http://hp.com) Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist... I worked
part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com) as Senior Adviser to the Open
Source Group that is part of Samsung Research America. In September of 2014,
I was recruited back to HPE and served for 25 months as an
-[HPE Fellow](http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c04839247)
+[HPE Fellow](http://www.hp.com/united-states/Bdale-Garbee-External-Bio-V2.pdf)
in Martin Fink's Office of the CTO at what became
[Hewlett Packard Enterprise](http://hpe.com), driving open source
strategy and advocacy for the company. At the end of September 2016, I
returned to early retirement... and am now enjoying "Retirement v2.0".
-I serve on the boards of [Aleph Objects](http://alephobjects.com),
+I currently serve on the boards of
the [Software Freedom Conservancy](https://sfconservancy.org),
the [FreedomBox Foundation](http://freedomboxfoundation.org),
-the [Linux Professional Institute](http://lpi.org),
-and [Amateur Radio Digital Communications](http://ampr.org).
+and [Amateur Radio Digital Communications](http://ampr.org), where I am
+also the Treasurer / CFO.
+
+I served for a while on the board of the
+[Linux Professional Institute](http://lpi.org) helping it recover from
+some organizational trauma and transform to a membership-based entity.
I served for a decade as President of
[Software in the Public Interest](http://spi-inc.org), and as a member of
the board of directors for some time before that.
I also served for several years on the board of the
-[Linux Foundation](http://linuxfoundation.org).
+[Linux Foundation](http://linuxfoundation.org)
+representing the interests of developers and individuals.
I remain actively involved in the [Debian](http://debian.org) project,
where I served for a year as the elected Debian Project Leader, and for nearly
My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with
[rockets](http://gag.com/rockets), which includes managing
[Altus Metrum, LLC](http://altusmetrum.org) with business partner
-[Keith Packard](http://keithp.org).
+[Keith Packard](http://keithp.org). I hold a "Level 3 certification" and am
+a member of both the [National Association of Rocketry](http://nar.org)
+and the [Tripoli Rocketry Association](http://tripoli.org). My personal
+confirmed flight altitude record is 32,635 feet above ground, my highest
+recorded acceleration is 86 g, the heaviest project I ever built weighed 168
+pounds on the launch rail, and I've flown a rocket I designed and built
+that reached Mach 3.21. I served on the committee that defined the
+[Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/TMP), and am
+immensely proud that my son aced the test to become one of the earliest TMP
+participants.
I miss the early days of the web, when it was mostly informative text...
but if you're really curious, there are some pictures of me on my
[Pikes Peak FM Association](http://www.ppfma.org), past board member
of the [Pikes Peak Radio Amateur Association](http://ppraa.org),
and a member of the
-[ARRL](http://www.arrl.org).
+[ARRL](http://www.arrl.org) and [QCWA](https://qcwa.org).
Perhaps my best-known early contribution to the hobby was the silly little
mail program I wrote for KA9Q's NOS networking software, called
[BM](ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/mailers),
communication with the other experiment modules that RUDAK talks to over the
CAN bus... SCOPE, MONITOR, CEDEX, and the thermistor SmartNode boards. More
recently, I led the design and delivery of the IHU design for the AMSAT-NA
-[Fox](http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1113) cubesat program.
+[Fox](http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1113) cubesat program, and one of my
+boards has been "in the stack" on every recent AMSAT-NA satellite.
If you want to find me "on the air" for a QSO, about the only chance
right now is to catch us
In recent years, my son and I have become very active building and flying
small and large model [rockets](http://gag.com/rockets). I hold a
-"Level 3 certification", and am a federally-licensed user of
-low explosives, which means I'm authorized to buy, store, and fly the largest
-motors currently available in the rocket hobby. My personal confirmed
-flight altitude record is 21,654 feet above ground, my highest recorded
-acceleration is 86 g, and I've flown a rocket to beyond Mach 2.2. I served
-on the committee that defined the [Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/Certifications/TripoliMentoringProgram/tabid/322/Default.aspx), and am
+"Level 3 certification", and my personal confirmed
+flight altitude record is 32,635 feet above ground, my highest recorded
+acceleration is 86 g, and I've flown a rocket that reached Mach 3.21. I served
+on the committee that defined the
+[Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/TMP), and am
proud that my son aced the test to become one of the earliest TMP
participants. My current focus combines rocketry with my electronics
background and strong interest in radio, see the
* [Cabell Garbee](http://www.garbee.net/~cabell), Bdale's brother, restores
neat old vehicles as a hobby.
-* [Allen B. Loyd](href="http://sites.google.com/site/allenloyd/Home),
+* [Allen B. Loyd](http://sites.google.com/site/allenloyd/Home),
one of Bdale's first cousins, has a site documenting his theatrical set
designs, paintings, and other fun stuff.
* [Space Machine & Engineering Corp](http://space-machine.com),
[Eugene Hoy Barksdale](http://www.barksdale.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4409)
was my third cousin twice removed. I had the chance to visit the base museum
in the fall of 2016, and I must say I'm proud of his accomplishments!
-<
+
Encrypting email is good. My currently preferred public key is
<pre>
-pub 4096R/C095D941 2009-07-26
- Key fingerprint = 8470 F20B 0625 9218 7CBA 7BB3 3A93 6196 C095 D941
-uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
-uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@hp.com>
-uid Bdale Garbee <bdale@debian.org>
-sub 4096R/166755FB 2009-07-26
+pub rsa4096 2019-10-21 [SC]
+ 1E0B AAD8 5C22 32A1 B3CE 92EB B704 7105 830B 9FA1
+uid [ unknown] Bdale Garbee <bdale@debian.org>
+uid [ unknown] Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
+sub rsa4096 2019-10-21 [E]
</pre>
You should be able to fetch that key from any of the major keyservers.
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