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 am now back
-as an HP Fellow in the Office of the CTO helping to drive open source strategy
-and advocacy for the company. During my retirement, from September
+[HP](http://hp.com) Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist... I was recruited
+to return in September of 2014 and am now an
+[HPE Fellow](http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c04839247)
+in Martin Fink's Office of the CTO at
+[Hewlett Packard Enterprise](http://hpe.com), where I drive open source
+strategy and advocacy for the company. During my retirement, from September
through December of 2013, I worked part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com)
as Senior Adviser to the Open Source Group that is part of Samsung Research
America.
I serve on the boards of the [Linux Foundation](http://linuxfoundation.org)
the [FreedomBox Foundation](http://freedomboxfoundation.org), and
-[Aleph Objects](http://alephobjects.com), and as
-President of [Software in the Public Interest](http://spi-inc.org).
+[Aleph Objects](http://alephobjects.com).
+
+I served for a decade as President of
+[Software in the Public Interest](http://spi-inc.org).
I remain actively involved in the [Debian](http://debian.org) project,
-where I continue to maintain various
-[packages](http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=bdale@gag.com),
-and chair the
-[Debian Technical Committee](http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte)
+where I served for a year as the elected Debian Project Leader, and for many
+years as Chairman of the Debian Technical Committee. I continue to maintain
+various [packages](http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=bdale@gag.com)
+for Debian.
My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with
[rockets](http://gag.com/rockets), which includes managing
a former Vice-President of [TAPR](http://tapr.org/),
a past Chairman and member of the Technical Committee of
the
-[Pikes Peak FM Association](http://www.ppfma.org),
+[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).
-Perhaps my best-known contribution to the hobby is the silly little mail
-program I wrote for KA9Q's NOS networking software, called
+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),
though I suppose I'm more proud of my role as integrator and documentation
author for the package prior to April 1989. I helped instigate N6GN's work on
I was also one of the developers of the RUDAK
digital communications processor. My primary focus on the RUDAK team was
communication with the other experiment modules that RUDAK talks to over the
-CAN bus... SCOPE, MONITOR, CEDEX, and the thermistor SmartNode boards. I am
-pleased to now be the working on the IHU design for the AMSAT-NA
+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.
If you want to find me "on the air" for a QSO, about the only chance
on the committee that defined the [Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/Certifications/TripoliMentoringProgram/tabid/322/Default.aspx), 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 [Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org)
+background and strong interest in radio, see the
+[Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org)
community web site for more details...
* [Bdale's blog](blog)
linked to from his page is neat stuff.
I was named for my
-[maternal grandfater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale),
+[maternal grandfather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale),
who was a prominent individual in his time. While my father is the serious
genealogist in our family, every once in a while I go do a web search on
-various family names. These are some references to Grandaddy that I have
+various family names. These are some references to Granddaddy that I have
found:
* He now has a
projects / web / gag.com / blobdiff