Software in the Public Interest

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Software in the Public Interest
Image:Spi2.jpg
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:

[edit] Board of directors

Its current board (elected by the Schulze method, a Condorcet method) is composed of:

  • President: Bdale Garbee
  • Vice-President: Joerg Jaspert
  • Secretary: Neil McGovern
  • Treasurer: Michael Schultheiss
  • Board of Directors:
    • Luk Claes
    • Joshua D. Drake
    • David Graham
    • Jimmy Kaplowitz
    • Martin Zobel-Helas
  • Advisors:
    • Legal counsel -- Gregory Pomerantz
    • Debian Project Leader -- currently Steve McIntyre
    • PostgreSQL Project Board representative -- currently Robert Treat

[edit] External links

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