Software in the Public Interest
| Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) |
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| founding | June 16, 1997 |
| Seat | new York |
| main emphasis | Open source / free software |
| Action space | worldwide |
| Chair | Bdale Garbee |
| sales | $ 635,312 (2017) |
| Website | www.spi-inc.org |
Software in the Public Interest, Inc. ( SPI ) is a not-for-profit organization founded to help other organizations develop and sell free and open source software.
SPI was founded as a non-profit organization on June 16, 1997 in the US state of New York . Since then it has become an umbrella organization for numerous community projects. In 1999 the non-profit status was recognized.
As a neutral independent body, SPI conducted and monitored the Wikimedia Foundation board elections from 2007-2011 .
aims
The organization is committed to the following goals:
- To organize the creation of free software systems made available for general use
- To teach individuals how to use these software systems
- To offer seminars and workshops that teach the correct use of computer systems
- Ensure the maintenance and improvement of the quality of existing freely available software
- To support, encourage and publicize the creation and further development of new free software
- To provide information and courses on how to use the Internet properly
- To organize meetings, discussion groups and forums on contemporary issues relating to computers and software
- To support access to free software systems and to enable them on a larger scale
- To collect and contribute money or donations to maintain the goals and activities of the organization
- To help private, school and state institutions, organizations and associations with questions about computers and software and to cooperate with them
- To stimulate general interest in computers and software in all respects
Member projects
The current member projects are:
- 0 AD
- ankur.org.in
- aptosid
- Arch Linux
- ArduPilot
- Chakra
- Debian
- Drizzle
- Drupal
- FFmpeg
- Fluxbox
- freedesktop.org
- FreedomBox
- Fresco
- Gallery
- Glucosio
- GNUstep
- GNU TeXmacs
- haskell.org
- Jenkins
- LibreOffice
- Madwifi
- MinGW
- NTPsec
- Open Bioinformatics Foundation
- OFTC
- OpenEmbedded
- OpenMPI
- OpenVAS
- OpenZFS
- Open Voting Foundation
- Open64
- OpenWrt
- OSUNIX
- Performance co-pilot
- Path64
- PostgreSQL
- Privoxy
- SproutCore
- Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
- The HeliOS Project
- The Mana World
- TideSDK
- Torch
- Tux4Kids
- X.Org
- YafaRay
Board
The current board of directors (elected according to the Schulze method , a Condorcet method ) consists of:
- President: Michael Schultheiss
- Vice President: Stephen Frost
- Secretary: Tim Potter
- Treasurer: Martin Zobel-Helas
- Extended Board:
- Luca Filipozzi
- Andrew Tridgell
- Chris Lamb
- Héctor Oron
- Forrest Fleming
- Advisory Board:
- Legal advice: Software Freedom Law Center
- Debian Project Leader (currently Chris Lamb)
- Representative of the Board of Directors of PostgreSQL (currently Robert Treat)
swell
- ↑ Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections 2007. Accessed April 28, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections 2011. Retrieved April 28, 2017 (English).
- ↑ After By-Laws of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Retrieved on October 1, 2012 .
- ↑ According to SPI Associate Projects. Retrieved April 28, 2017 .
- ↑ According to SPI Board of Directors. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ According to Debian Project Leader Election 2017 Results. Retrieved April 28, 2017 (English).