Fields Software Founder Bruce Perens Type of business 501(c)(3) | Website www.spi-inc.org Founded 16 June 1997 | |
Location State of New York, United States Key people Bdale Garbee (President) Headquarters Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Similar Software Freedom Conservancy, GNOME Foundation, Open Source Initiative, The Document Foundation, FreeBSD Foundation | ||
Software in the public interest the non profit behind debian postgresql org libreoffice in th
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.
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- Software in the public interest the non profit behind debian postgresql org libreoffice in th
- Associated projects
- Board of Directors
- References
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 2007–2011.
Associated projects
Current associated projects of SPI are:
Board of Directors
Its current board (elected by the Schulze method, a Condorcet method) is composed of:
References
Software in the Public Interest Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA