Software in the Public Interest

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:

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

• Official website

1. Public interest
2. Jenkins (software)
3. Software Freedom Conservancy
4. OpenVAS
5. Open and Free Technology Community
6. APT (software)
7. List of Debian project leaders
8. Ian Jackson
9. Debian
10. Open-source software
11. Bdale Garbee
12. Public interest design
13. List of Tor onion services
14. SPI
15. Deb (file format)
16. Umbrella organization
17. Python Imaging Library
18. Debian Free Software Guidelines
19. Open Bioinformatics Foundation
20. MIT License