Software in the Public Interest

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Software in the Public Interest
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Founded June 16, 1997; 27 years ago (1997-06-16)
Type 501(c)(3)
Location
Fields Software
Key people
Bdale Garbee (President)
Website www.spi-inc.org

Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a US 501(c)(3) 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.

SPI was originally created to allow the Debian Project to accept donations.[1] 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 2007–2011.[2][3]

Associated projects

Current associated projects of SPI are:[4]

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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: Jonathan McDowell
  • Treasurer: Michael Schultheiss
  • Board of Directors:
    • Clint Adams
    • Robert Brockway
    • Joshua D. Drake
    • Jimmy Kaplowitz
    • Martin Zobel-Helas
  • Advisors:

See also

Other free software umbrella organizations:

References

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External links


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