Bdale Garbee
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Born | Alfred Dickinson Barksdale Garbee II |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Bdale Garbee |
Spouse(s) | Karen Garbee |
Children | 2 |
Website | gag |
Bdale Garbee /ˈbiːdeɪl ˈɡɑːrbiː/[1] is an American computer specialist who works with Linux, particularly Debian. He is also an amateur radio hobbyist (KB0G), a member of AMSAT, Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (former vice-president) and the American Radio Relay League.
Free Software
Garbee has been a Debian developer since October 1994, the earliest days of the project. 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),[2] and currently serves as chairman of the Debian Technical Committee.[3]
Garbee has served on the board of directors of Software in the Public Interest, the non-profit organization that collects donations for Debian and many other Free Software projects, since July 29, 2004, and was elected president on August 1, 2006.[4]
Garbee represents the interests of individual members and developers on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation.
In September 2008, he received a "Lutèce d'Or" during the French event Paris Capitale du Libre as the FLOSS personality of the year.
In March 2011, Bdale Garbee agreed to join the FreedomBox Foundation's board of directors and chair its technical advisory committee.[5]
He retired at the end of August 2012 from long service as the Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist at Hewlett-Packard.[6] From September to December 2013 he was a part-time Senior Adviser to the Open Source Group at Samsung.[7]
He was hired back by HP in 2014, with the goal to help driving HP's Open Source strategy. [8]
Personal
The name "Bdale" is an abbreviation of "Barksdale", given in honor of his maternal grandfather, Alfred D. Barksdale.
At linux.conf.au 2009, Garbee's 27-year-old beard was removed by Linus Torvalds to raise funds for Tasmanian Devil facial tumour disease research.[9][10] They raised between AU$35,000 and AU$40,000.
His house was destroyed by the Black Forest fire in June 2013.[11]
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External links
- Bdale Garbee's homepage
- Beyond Doing Business, podcast of Garbee's keynote at OSCON, 2004.
- A conversation with Bdale Garbee, iTWire, January 2009
Preceded by | Debian Project Leader April 2002 – April 2003 |
Succeeded by Martin Michlmayr |
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