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 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.
+
+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.
 
-Bdale serves as President of Software in the Public Interest, is on the boards
-of directors of the Linux Foundation, the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, 
-and Open Media Now, and is a member of the Linux Journal Editorial Advisory 
-Board.  He is a frequent speaker at Linux and Open Source conferences, and 
-works closely with various projects in the Open Source community.
+Bdale serves as President of Software in the Public Interest, and on the 
+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.