Software in the Public Interest
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This article relies on references to primary sources. (January 2008) |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) |
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| Founded | June 16, 1997 |
| Headquarters | New York |
| Key people | President: Bdale Garbee |
| Method | Software |
| Website | www.spi-inc.org |
Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed to help other organizations create and distribute free/open-source software and open-source hardware. Anyone is eligible to apply for membership, and contributing membership is available to those who participate actively in the free software community.
SPI was originally created to allow the Debian Project to accept donations.[1] It now acts as a fiscal sponsor to many free and open source projects.
SPI has hosted Wikimedia Foundation board elections and audited the tally as a neutral third party since 2007.
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Associated Projects [edit]
Current associated projects of SPI are:[2]
- 0 A.D.
- Ankur[3]
- aptosid
- Arch Linux
- Debian
- Drizzle
- Drupal
- FFmpeg
- Fluxbox
- freedesktop.org
- FreedomBox
- Fresco (unmaintained)
- Gallery
- GNUstep
- GNU TeXmacs
- Haskell.org
- Jenkins
- LibreOffice
- MadWiFi[4]
- OFTC
- OpenEmbedded
- OpenVAS
- Open Bioinformatics Foundation
- Open Voting Foundation[5] (unmaintained)
- Open64
- OpenWrt
- OSUNIX
- Path64[6]
- PostgreSQL
- Privoxy
- SproutCore
- The HeliOS Project
- TideSDK
- Tux4Kids[7]
- YafaRay
Board of Directors [edit]
Its current board (elected by the Schulze method, a Condorcet method) is composed of:
- President: Bdale Garbee
- Vice-President: Joerg Jaspert
- Secretary: Jonathan McDowell
- Treasurer: Michael Schultheiss
- Board of Directors:
- Clint Adams
- Robert Brockway
- Joshua D. Drake
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
- Martin Zobel-Helas
- Advisors:
- Legal counsel — Software Freedom Law Center
- Debian Project Leader
- PostgreSQL Project Board representative — currently Robert Treat
See also [edit]
Other free software umbrella organizations:
References [edit]
- ^ "A Brief History of Debian". Debian Project. 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
- ^ "projects". Spi-inc.org. 2013-04-17. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
- ^ "ankur.org.in". ankur.org.in. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
- ^ "madwifi-project.org". madwifi-project.org. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
- ^ "www.openvotingfoundation.org". www.openvotingfoundation.org. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
- ^ "path64.org". path64.org. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
- ^ "tux4kids.alioth.debian.org". tux4kids.alioth.debian.org. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
External links [edit]
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