Software in the Public Interest

Software in the Public Interest
Founded June 16, 1997 (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]

Board of Directors

Its current board (elected by the Schulze method, a Condorcet method) is composed of:

See also

Other free software umbrella organizations:

References

  1. ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". Debian Project. 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
  2. ↑ "Board elections/2007/en". Wikimedia. 2013-04-27. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
  3. ↑ "Board elections/2011/en". Wikimedia. 2012-07-02. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
  4. ↑ "projects". Spi-inc.org. 2013-04-17. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
  5. ↑ "FOSDEM2014: State of the X.Org Foundation". 2014-02-02.
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