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KBØG Bdale Garbee Black Forest, CO QCWA # 38304 Chapter 58 |
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After retiring at the end of August, 2012, from my long-held position as HP Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist... I worked part-time for Samsung 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 in Martin Fink's Office of the CTO at what became Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 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 Software Freedom Conservancy, the FreedomBox Foundation, the Linux Professional Institute, and Amateur Radio Digital Communications.
I served for a decade as President of Software in the Public Interest, and as a member of the board of directors for some time before that.
I also served for several years on the board of the Linux Foundation.
I remain actively involved in the Debian project, 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 for Debian.
My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with rockets, which includes managing Altus Metrum, LLC with business partner Keith Packard.
I miss the early days of the web, when it was mostly informative text... but if you're really curious, there are some pictures of me on my bio page, and associated with the Wikipedia page about me. If you're a close friend or family member, email me for credentials to enter our gallery..
I'm most comfortable when there are lots of electrons flowing nearby, mostly in high-end computer equipment. There are only a few carbohydrates I've met in my life that I didn't like, I have very eclectic tastes in music, enjoy old movies, and I have this "German metal habit"... Porsche flavored. My current such toy is a 1984 Porsche 928S Euro, moss green metallic with beige interior and a dog-leg 5-speed.
Over the years, I've spent a lot of my "spare time" on various facets of Amateur Radio. KB0G is my current callsign, previously I was N3EUA and before that I was KA3ORU. I'm a life member of AMSAT, President of CODE, a former Vice-President of TAPR, a past Chairman and member of the Technical Committee of the Pikes Peak FM Association, past board member of the Pikes Peak Radio Amateur Association, and a member of the ARRL. Perhaps my best-known early contribution to the hobby was the silly little mail program I wrote for KA9Q's NOS networking software, called BM, though I suppose I'm more proud of my role as integrator and documentation author for the package prior to April 1989. I helped instigate N6GN's work on 10Ghz packet links, and continue to have a strong interest in data transmission over RF links. I was the project leader for the GPS receiver experiment on the AMSAT Phase-3D satellite, which launched in November 2000, after which it was known as AO-40. I was also one of the developers of the RUDAK digital communications processor. My primary focus on the RUDAK team was communication with the other experiment modules that RUDAK talks to over the CAN bus... SCOPE, MONITOR, CEDEX, and the thermistor SmartNode boards. More recently, I led the design and delivery of the IHU design for the AMSAT-NA Fox cubesat program.
If you want to find me "on the air" for a QSO, about the only chance right now is to catch us roving in a VHF/Microwave contest, or on the flight-line at a rocket launch.
While I was "born and raised" in the era of 4.1BSD, shared a Vax 11/750 with Eric Crane at CMU, and ran some flavor of BSD on at least one machine up until the fire in 2013 (the Symmetric S/375, a uVax2, BSD/OS, and NetBSD on a pc532), I have become a strong supporter of Linux particularly the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, because of the emphasis on perpetual free availability of all of the source code to the system. I've contributed a few packages to the Debian effort, and now maintain a signficant number, including some that are essential packages in the base distribution, and some that are "big hairy monsters". At least it keeps me off the streets at night...
Not sure how to pronounce "Linux"? Why not let Linus himself tell you...
In recent years, my son and I have become very active building and flying small and large model rockets. I hold a "Level 3 certification", and am a federally-licensed user of low explosives, which means I'm authorized to buy, store, and fly the largest motors currently available in the rocket hobby. My personal confirmed flight altitude record is 32,635 feet above ground, my highest recorded acceleration is 86 g, and I've flown a rocket to beyond Mach 3.1. I served on the committee that defined the Tripoli Mentoring Program, and am proud that my son aced the test to become one of the earliest TMP participants. My current focus combines rocketry with my electronics background and strong interest in radio, see the Altus Metrum community web site for more details...
July 12, 2020