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 Bdale Garbee
-Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist
-Hewlett-Packard Company
-
-
-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 
@@ -17,17 +8,26 @@ 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.
 
-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.
+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.  
+
+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 on the boards of directors of the Linux Foundation, the 
+Freedombox Foundation, and Aleph Objects.  He is a frequent speaker at Linux 
+and Open Source conferences.
+
+For a decade, Bdale served as President of Software in the Public Interest.
 
 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.