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title: "Hugh Blemings"
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date: 2021-03-13
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Hugh has had a long standing association with Free and Open Source Software, Open Hardware and POWER.
His career has spanned everything from Linux kernel development to engineering team management,
electronics design to product management at the likes of IBM, Canonical and Rackspace.
He has previously served as President on the Council of Linux Australia and on the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board among other roles.


Based in Melbourne, Australia, Hugh served as the Executive Director of the OpenPOWER Foundation from November 2017 to May 2020
and remains passionately involved in the OpenPOWER ecosystem in a voluntary capacity as a Board Advisor an individual contributor.
