Bdale Garbee joins Software Freedom Conservancy's Evaluations Committee

[Karen Sandler]

URL:
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2017/may/16/garbee-eval-committee/
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Bdale Garbee joins Software Freedom Conservancy's Evaluations Committee

Software Freedom Conservancy announces today that it has appointed Bdale 
Garbee to its Evaluations Committee. The committee evaluates projects 
applying to Conservancy and selects which ones get offered membership. 
Meeting monthy, the committee serves as a gatekeeper, monitoring 
Conservancy's mission to support, promote and defend software freedom. 
The evaluations conducted by the comittee are often complex and require 
a very broad collective skill set to be successful. Ensuring that there 
are a strong group of independent commttee members who are experts in 
the field is fundamental. The Evaluations Committee is appointed by 
Conservancy's Board of Directors.

Garbee is a technologist and community builder. He has deep connections 
to free and open source software communities, having been an early 
participant in the Debian community and board member of Software in the 
Public Interest for a decade. He also has substantial coporate 
experience in the field, and has recently retired (for the second time) 
from an impressive career at HP/HPE. Garbee also serves on the boards of 
the Freedombox Foundation and Aleph Objects. He is a co-founder of Altus 
Metrum, LLC, is a small business that designs, builds, and sells 
completely open hardware and open source avionics solutions for use in 
high power model rockets. Garbee is a frequent speaker and presence at 
free and open source software events.

"The Software Freedom Conservancy plays an important role in the world 
of Free Software," said Garbee, "and I am happy to further support the 
organization by adding my experience and perspective to the Evaluation 
Committee."

"Bdale brings a unique background which will help us make sure that 
we're partnering with the right member projects," commented Karen 
Sandler, Executive Director of Conservancy. "I can think of few free 
software contributors with the breadth of experience that Bdale brings 
to the table. We're excited to have him on the committee!"