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 | Martin Michlmayr (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
Current associated projects of SPI are:[4]
- 0 A.D.
- ankur.org.in
- aptosid
- Arch Linux
- ArduPilot
- Chakra
- Debian
- Drizzle
- FFmpeg
- Fluxbox
- freedesktop.org
- FreedomBox
- 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
- TideSDK
- Torch
- Tux4Kids
- X.Org Foundation[5]
- YafaRay
Board of Directors
Its current board (elected by the Schulze method, a Condorcet method) is composed of:[6]
- President: Martin Michlmayr
- Vice-President: Joerg Jaspert
- Secretary: Valerie Young
- Treasurer: Michael Schultheiss
- Board of Directors:
- Luca Filipozzi
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
- Dimitri John Ledkov
- Andrew Tridgell
- Martin Zobel-Helas
- Advisors:
- Legal counsel — Software Freedom Law Center
- Debian Project Leader
- PostgreSQL Project Board representative — currently Robert Treat
See also
Other free software umbrella organizations:
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "projects". Spi-inc.org. 2013-04-17. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
- ^ "FOSDEM2014: State of the X.Org Foundation". 2014-02-02.
- ^ "SPI Board". Retrieved 2017-04-28.
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