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](http://www.hp.com/united-states/Bdale-Garbee-External-Bio-V2.pdf)
-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.
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 am a member of 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
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