Software in the Public Interest

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Software in the Public Interest

Founded:	June 16, 1997
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 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.

[edit] Member Projects

Current member projects of SPI are:

• Debian
• Fresco
• GNUstep
• OFTC
• PostgreSQL
• GNU Texmacs
• wxWidgets
• Drupal
• Open Voting Foundation
• Gallery
• 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

[edit] External links

• Official website