Software in the Public Interest

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Software in the Public Interest
Spi2.jpg
Type 501(c)(3)
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]

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:

See also [edit]

Other free software umbrella organizations:

References [edit]

  1. ^ "A Brief History of Debian". Debian Project. 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-09-27. 
  2. ^ "projects". Spi-inc.org. 2013-04-17. Retrieved 2013-04-20. 
  3. ^ "ankur.org.in". ankur.org.in. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2012-04-06. 
  4. ^ "madwifi-project.org". madwifi-project.org. Retrieved 2012-04-06. 
  5. ^ "www.openvotingfoundation.org". www.openvotingfoundation.org. Retrieved 2012-04-06. 
  6. ^ "path64.org". path64.org. Retrieved 2012-04-06. 
  7. ^ "tux4kids.alioth.debian.org". tux4kids.alioth.debian.org. Retrieved 2012-04-06. 

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