X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=blobdiff_plain;f=bdale%2Findex.mdwn;h=1f33876b4791f3a68a092848a7addea1f5c1df9e;hp=3392fe633a217c35bf4bf4602307746c8db923ce;hb=215ceee1c0a28098115d85212a1e7971edd848b3;hpb=b056e18a6843d1a5aa32a47b121e20a520a363b8 diff --git a/bdale/index.mdwn b/bdale/index.mdwn index 3392fe6..1f33876 100644 --- a/bdale/index.mdwn +++ b/bdale/index.mdwn @@ -4,25 +4,29 @@ Bdale Garbee, KB0G 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 -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. +[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) +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 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), and as a member of +the board of directors for some time before that. 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 nearly +a decade 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 @@ -136,10 +140,10 @@ Cool Stuff on the Web 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