Software in the Public Interest
American nonprofit organization From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization domiciled in New York State 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) |
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| Fields | Software |
Key people | Michael Schultheiss (President) Stephen Frost (Vice President)[1] |
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| 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 to 2011.[3][4]
Associated projects
The 44 currently associated projects of SPI are:[5]
- 0 A.D.
- Adélie Linux
- ankur.org.in
- aptosid
- Arch Linux
- Arch Linux 32
- ArduPilot
- Battle for Wesnoth
- Compile Farm
- Debian
- FFmpeg
- Fluxbox
- Gallery
- Ganeti
- Gentoo Linux[6]
- GNUstep
- GNU TeXmacs
- haskell.org
- LibreOffice
- MinGW
- MPI Forum
- NTPsec
- ns-3
- OFTC
- Open Bioinformatics Foundation
- Open MPI
- Open Voting Foundation
- OpenEmbedded
- OpenSAF
- OpenVAS
- OpenZFS
- PMIx
- POCO
- PostgreSQL
- Privoxy
- Rigs of Rods
- Rocket
- SproutCore
- Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
- systemd
- The Mana World
- translatewiki.net
- Tux4Kids
- X.Org
- YafaRay
Board of directors
Its current board is composed of:[7]
- President: Michael Schultheiss
- Vice-President: Stephen Frost
- Secretary: Forrest Fleming
- Treasurer: Héctor Orón Martínez
- Board of Directors:
- Joseph Conway
- Milan Kupcevic
- Jonatas L. Nogueira
- Jeremy Stanley
- Zach van Rijn
See also
References
External links
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