Software in the Public Interest
- Software in the Public Interest
Infobox NPO
organization_name = Software in the Public Interest
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foundation = June 16, 1997
location = New York
key_people = President: Bdale Garbee
fields = Software
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homepage = [http://www.spi-inc.org/ 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.
Member Projects
Current member projects of SPI are:
* Debian
* Drupal
* freedesktop.org
* Fresco
* Gallery
* GNUstep
* OFTC
* OpenOffice.org
* OpenVAS
* Open Voting Foundation
* PostgreSQL
* TeXmacs
* wxWidgets
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: Jimmy Kaplowitz
* Treasurer: Michael Schultheiss
* Board of Directors:
** Luk Claes
** Joshua D. Drake
** David Graham
** Neil McGovern
** Martin Zobel-Helas
* Advisors:
** Legal counsel -- Gregory Pomerantz
** Debian Project Leader -- currently Steve McIntyre
** PostgreSQL Project Board representative -- currently Robert Treat
External links
* [http://www.spi-inc.org/ Official website]
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