Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a US
501(c)(3)
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non-profit organization
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domiciled in
New York State
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formed to help other organizations create and distribute
free open-source software
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and
open-source hardware
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. 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
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projects.
SPI has hosted
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as foundation (United States law), a charitable foundation. It is the host of Wikipedia, th ...
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:
*
0 A.D.
* Adélie Linux
* ankur.org.in
* aptosid
*
Arch Linux
* Arch Linux 32
*
ArduPilot
*
Battle for Wesnoth
* Compile Farm
*
Debian
Debian () is a free and open-source software, free and open source Linux distribution, developed by the Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock in August 1993. Debian is one of the oldest operating systems based on the Linux kerne ...
*
FFmpeg
*
Fluxbox
*
Gallery
*
Ganeti
*
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux (pronounced ) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. Unlike a binary software distribution, the source code is compiled locally according to the user's preferences and is often optimized for ...
*
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
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*
SproutCore
*
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
*
systemd
* The Mana World
*
translatewiki.net
* Tux4Kids
*
X.Org
* YafaRay
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
*
501(c)(3) organizations
Debian
Free and open-source software organizations
Organizations established in 1997
1997 establishments in New York (state)
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