Parrot Foundation

Parrot Foundation
Motto Parrot speaks your language
Formation June 2008
Type Non-profit organization
Purpose/focus Help promote the development of the Parrot process virtual machine (Parrot VM) and related source code
Headquarters United States
Region served Worldwide
President Jerry Gay
Key people Allison Randal, Will Coleda
Website Parrot Foundation

The Parrot Foundation is a non-profit organization based in the United States established under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

It was formed in June 2008[1] to help promote the development of the Parrot process virtual machine (Parrot VM) and related source code. In addition, it provides a means for companies and organizations to provide funding to Parrot VM related activities. It also licenses the Parrot VM and protects the Parrot VM intellectual property.

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Board of directors

The Parrot Foundation has a board of directors, elected every year by the voting members of the foundation. The current board consists of:

Voting membership

In order to become a voting member of the Parrot Foundation, the following conditions must be met:

Sponsor membership is a non-voting membership and requires a yearly financial contribution. Current sponsor members are[3]:

Advisory board

Current Advisory Board[4]

References

  1. ^ http://www.parrotblog.org/2008/06/announcing-parrot-foundation.html
  2. ^ "Parrot Contributor License Agreement 1.0" (PDF). http://www.parrot.org/files/parrot_cla.pdf. 
  3. ^ http://www.parrot.org/sponsors
  4. ^ http://www.parrot.org/foundation/advisory_board

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