Software in the Public Interest
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.
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| Founded | June 16, 1997 |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) |
| Location |
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| Fields | Software |
Key people | Michael Schultheiss (President) |
Revenue (2017) |  |
| Website | www |
SPI was originally created to allow the Debian Project to accept donations.[2] 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.[3][4]
Associated projects
Current associated projects of SPI are:[5]
- 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[6]
- YafaRay
Board of directors
Its current board is composed of:[7]
- 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
gollark: Excellent, new disk spun up and presumably doing disky things.
gollark: I had to *actually* install the disk.
gollark: Oh, right, maybe I should warn for ABR server downtime.
gollark: You cannot possibly hope to escape.
gollark: Didn't we all?
See also
Other free software umbrella organizations:
- Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
- Software Freedom Conservancy
References
- "SOFTWARE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST INC". Nonprofit Explorer. ProPublica. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- "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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