Software in the Public Interest
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| Founded | June 16, 1997 |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) |
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| Fields | Software |
Key people | Michael Schultheiss (President) |
| Website | www |
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 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 from 2007–2011.[2][3]
Associated projects[edit]
Current associated projects of SPI are:[4]
- 0 A.D.
- ankur.org.in
- aptosid
- Arch Linux
- ArduPilot
- Chakra
- Debian
- Drizzle
- FFmpeg
- Fluxbox
- freedesktop.org
- Fresco
- Gallery
- Glucosio
- GNUstep
- GNU TeXmacs
- haskell.org
- Jenkins
- LibreOffice
- Madwifi
- MinGW
- NTPsec
- Open Bioinformatics Foundation
- OFTC
- OpenEmbedded
- OpenMPI
- OpenVAS
- OpenZFS
- Open Voting Foundation
- Open64
- OpenWrt
- OSUNIX
- Performance Co-Pilot
- Path64
- PostgreSQL
- Privoxy
- SproutCore
- Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
- The Mana World
- The HeliOS Project, aka. Reglue
- TideSDK
- Torch
- Tux4Kids
- X.Org Foundation[5]
- YafaRay
Board of directors[edit]
Its current board is composed of:[6]
- President: Michael Schultheiss
- Vice-President: Stephen Frost
- Secretary: Tim Potter
- Treasurer: Martin Zobel-Helas
- Board of Directors:
- Luca Filipozzi
- Andrew Tridgell
- Chris Lamb
- Héctor Oron
- Forrest Fleming
- 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.
- ^ "Board elections/2007/en". Wikimedia. 2013-04-27. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
- ^ "Board elections/2011/en". Wikimedia. 2012-07-02. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
- ^ "SPI Associated Projects". Spi-inc.org. 2017-08-15. Retrieved 2017-08-19.
- ^ "FOSDEM2014: State of the X.Org Foundation". 2014-02-02.
- ^ "SPI Board". Retrieved 2019-08-04.
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