Software in the Public Interest
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Founded: | June 16, 1997 |
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Location: | New York |
Key people: | President: Bdale Garbee |
Fields: | Software |
Website: | www.spi-inc.org |
Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a non-profit organization formed to help other organizations create and distribute open-source software and hardware. Anyone is eligible to apply for membership, and contributing membership is available to those who participate actively in the free software community.
[edit] Member Projects
Current member projects of SPI are:
- Debian
- Fresco
- GNUstep
- OFTC
- PostgreSQL
- GNU Texmacs
- wxWidgets
- Drupal
- Open Voting Foundation
- freedesktop.org
[edit] Board of directors
Its current board (elected by the Schulze method, a Condorcet method) is composed of:
- President: Bdale Garbee
- Vice-President: Michael Schultheiss
- Secretary: Neil McGovern
- Treasurer: Josh Berkus
- Board of Directors:
- David Graham
- Ian Jackson
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
- Branden Robinson
- Martin "Joey" Schulze
- Advisors:
- Legal counsel -- Gregory Pomerantz
- Debian Project Leader -- currently Anthony Towns