- Bdale Garbee
Bdale Garbee is a computer specialist who works with
Linux , particularlyDebian GNU/Linux . He is currently theLinux CTO atHewlett-Packard and the current President ofSoftware in the Public Interest .Bdale has been a Debian developer since the earliest days of the project in the mid-1990s. He set up the original developer machine named "master.debian.org" in 1995. He served as a
Debian Project Leader (DPL) for one year (2002-2003). He was the first DPL to not succeed himself while still being a candidate in the election after his first term. He has served on the board of directors of Software in the Public Interest, the non-profit organization that collects donations for Debian, since July 29, 2004, and was elected president on August 1, 2006.In september 2008, he received a "Lutèce d'Or" during the french event Paris Capitale du Libre as the
FLOSS personality of the year.He is also an
amateur radio hobbyist, a member ofAMSAT ,Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (former vice-president) andAmerican Radio Relay League .The name "Bdale" is an abbreviation of "Barksdale", given in honor of his maternal grandfather,
Alfred D. Barksdale .External links
* [http://www.gag.com/~bdale/ Bdale Garbee's homepage]
* [http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail171.html Beyond Doing Business] , podcast of Bdale's keynote at OSCON,2004 .
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