Bdale Garbee
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Bdale Garbee is a computer specialist who works with Linux, particularly Debian GNU/Linux. He is currently the Linux CTO at Hewlett-Packard, and the current President of Software in the Public Interest.
Bdale Garbee has been a Debian developer since the earliest days of the project in the mid-1990s, and he set up the original developer machine named master.debian.org in 1995. He has later served as a Debian Project Leader 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.
Garbee is also an amateur radio hobbyist, a member of AMSAT, Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (former vice-president) and American Radio Relay League.
The name "Bdale" is an abbreviation of "Barksdale", given in honor of his maternal grandfather, Alfred D. Barksdale.
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| Preceded by Ben Collins |
Debian Project Leader April 2002 – April 2003 |
Succeeded by Martin Michlmayr |
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