Bdale Garbee
Bdale Garbee (pronounced /ˈbiːdeɪl ˈɡɑrbiː/[1]) is a computer specialist who works with GNU/Linux, particularly Debian. He is currently the Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist at Hewlett-Packard and the current President of Software 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 of AMSAT, Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (former vice-president) and the American Radio Relay League.
The name "Bdale" is an abbreviation of "Barksdale", given in honor of his maternal grandfather, Alfred D. Barksdale.
At linux.conf.au 2009, Bdale's 27-year-old beard was removed by Linus Torvalds to raise funds for Tasmanian Devil facial tumour disease research.[2][3] They raised between AUD $35,000 and $40,000.
In March 2011, Bdale Garbee has agreed to join the FreedomBox Foundation's board of directors and chair its technical advisory committee.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaJnl89wfWU
- ^ Of beards and saving the Tasmanian devil http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22814/1090/
- ^ Pictures and shaving story at LWN.net http://lwn.net/Articles/316282/
- ^ http://freedomboxfoundation.org/news/Bdale_Garbee_Joins_Foundation/index.en.html
[edit] External links
- Bdale Garbee's homepage
- Beyond Doing Business, podcast of Bdale's keynote at OSCON, 2004.
- A conversation with Bdale Garbee
| Preceded by Ben Collins |
Debian Project Leader April 2002 – April 2003 |
Succeeded by Martin Michlmayr |
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