Peer-Directed Projects Center
- Peer-Directed Projects Center
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"PDPC" redirects here. For other uses, see PDPC (disambiguation).
Peer-Directed Projects Center
| Type |
Nonprofit |
| Industry |
Internet Services |
| Founded |
Houston, Texas (2002) |
| Headquarters |
London, England |
| Key people |
Christel Dahlskjaer, President
Peter D. Colley, Treasurer
Martin Buckland, Secretary
and formerly Rob Levin, Founder, late President and Executive Director |
| Products |
freenode |
| Revenue |
under $25000 USD (2005) |
| Employees |
0[1] |
| Website |
Official Website |
The PDPC is known as the organization which runs the freenode IRC network, prominent open source projects such as the GNU Project operate an IRC chat service. The PDPC is incorporated in England and Wales.
Goals
PDPC was created to run the freenode network and to establish a variety of programs relating to peer-directed project communities. According to its charter, the PDPC exists "to help peer-directed project communities flourish", mostly based around free and open source software projects, and encouraging the use of free software through supporting its development. The GNU Project[2] uses the freenode network for communication.
History
The PDPC was founded and initially directed by the late[3] Rob Levin (a.k.a. lilo). In November 2006, the board went through a reshuffle and new members were installed. Seth Schoen left and Christel Dahlskjaer, senior freenode staffer became the secretary and head of staff on freenode in Schoen's place. Also joining the board was David Levin, Rob's brother.[4]
References
- ^ Group Registration, second bullet
- ^ "GNU Project Will Use Freenode as Its Official IRC Network", GNU Project, August 26, 2002
- ^ "Rob Levin passed away", freenode.net, September 16, 2006
- ^ New board of directors for PDPC announced, freenode.net, November 11, 2006
See also
External links
Categories:
- Non-profit organisations based in the United Kingdom
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
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