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.
SPI was originally created to allow the Debian Project to accept donations. 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.
Associated projects
The 41 currently associated projects of SPI are:
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 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 PostgreSQL Privoxy SproutCore Swathanthra Malayalam Computing systemd The Mana World translatewiki.net Tux4Kids X.Org YafaRay
Board of directors
Its current board is composed of:
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
List of free and open-source software organizations
References
External links
501(c)(3) organizations
Debian
Free and open-source software organizations
Organizations established in 1997
1997 establishments in New York (state)