Software in the Public Interest
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| Founded: | June 16, 1997 |
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| Location: | New York |
| Key people: | President: Bdale Garbee |
| Fields: | Software |
| Website: | 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.
Current member projects of SPI are:
- Debian
- Fresco
- GNUstep
- OFTC
- PostgreSQL
- GNU Texmacs
- wxWidgets
- Drupal
- Open Voting Foundation
- Gallery
- freedesktop.org
Its current board (elected by the Schulze method, a Condorcet method) is composed of:
- President: Bdale Garbee
- Vice-President: Michael Schultheiss
- Secretary: Neil McGovern
- Treasurer: Josh Berkus
- Board of Directors:
- David Graham
- Ian Jackson
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
- Branden Robinson
- Martin "Joey" Schulze
- Advisors:
- Legal counsel -- Gregory Pomerantz
- Debian Project Leader -- currently Anthony Towns
