Bdale Garbee
| Bdale Garbee | |
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 Bdale Garbee in 2007 |
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| Born | Alfred Dickinson Barksdale Garbee II |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Bdale Garbee |
| Spouse(s) | Karen Garbee |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | |
| www.gag.com/~bdale/ | |
Bdale Garbee /ˈbiːdeɪl ˈɡɑrbiː/[1] is a computer specialist who works with GNU/Linux, particularly Debian. He retired at the end of August 2012 from long service as the Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist at Hewlett-Packard.[2]
Garbee 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),[3] and currently serves as chairman of the Debian Technical Committee.[4]
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.[5]
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.
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, Garbee's 27-year-old beard was removed by Linus Torvalds to raise funds for Tasmanian Devil facial tumour disease research.[6][7] They raised between AU$35,000 and AU$40,000.
In March 2011, Bdale Garbee agreed to join the FreedomBox Foundation's board of directors and chair its technical advisory committee.[8]
References [edit]
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaJnl89wfWU
- ^ Garbee, Bdale (2012-08-01). "Early Retirement". Retrieved 2013-04-14.
- ^ "Debian Project Leader Elections 2002". Debian Project. 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
- ^ "Debian's Organizational Structure". Debian Project. 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
- ^ Graham, David (2006-08-01). "New board officers appointed". Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
- ^ 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
External links [edit]
- Bdale Garbee's homepage
- Beyond Doing Business, podcast of Garbee'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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