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 44 currently associated projects of SPI are:4
- 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
- Gentoo Linux5
- 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
- POCO
- PostgreSQL
- Privoxy
- Rigs of Rods
- Rocket
- SproutCore
- Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
- systemd
- The Mana World
- translatewiki.net
- Tux4Kids
- X.Org
- YafaRay
Board of directors
Its current board is composed of:6
- 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
- Free and open-source software portal
External links
References
"A Brief History of Debian". Debian Project. 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-09-27. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/project-history.en.txt ↩
"Board elections/2007/en". Wikimedia. 2013-04-27. Retrieved 2013-09-30. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_elections/2007/en&oldid=5752314 ↩
"Board elections/2011/en". Wikimedia. July 2, 2012. Retrieved September 30, 2013. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Board_elections/2011/en&oldid=3870582 ↩
"SPI Associated Projects". Spi-inc.org. March 31, 2024. Retrieved April 16, 2024. http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/ ↩
Gentoo Linux becomes an SPI associated project Apr 10, 2024 https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/04/10/SPI-associated-project.html ↩
"SPI Board". Retrieved 2022-12-10. http://spi-inc.org/corporate/board/ ↩