Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

Type: Private - Not-for-Profit
On the web: http://www.spi-inc.org

Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a nonprofit organization established in 1997 that helps organizations develop and distribute open source (free) hardware and software. They encourage programmers to use the GNU General Public License or other licenses that allow free redistribution and use of software. SPI is an umbrella organization for 13 open source industry projects: Debian, Drupal, Fresco, freedesktop.org, Gallery, GNUstep, GNU TeXmacs, OFTC, OpenOffice.org, OpenVAS, Open Voting Foundation, PostgreSQL, and wxWidgets.

Officers:
President: Bdale Garbee

Competitors:
Free Software Foundation
Microsoft
SCO Group

Software in the Public Interest
Location:	New York
Key people:	President: Bdale Garbee
Fields:	Software
Website:	www.spi-inc.org

Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a 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.

Member Projects

Current member projects of SPI are:

• Debian
• Fresco
• GNUstep
• OFTC
• PostgreSQL
• GNU Texmacs
• wxWidgets
• Drupal
• Open Voting Foundation
• Gallery
• freedesktop.org
• OpenOffice.org

Board of directors

Its current board (elected by the Schulze method, a Condorcet method) is composed of:

• President: Bdale Garbee
• Vice-President: Joerg Jaspert
• Secretary: Neil McGovern
• Treasurer: Michael Schultheiss
• Board of Directors:
  • David Graham
  • Luk Claes
  • Josh Berkus
  • Joshua D. Drake
  • Martin Zobel-Helas
• Advisors:
  • Legal counsel -- Gregory Pomerantz
  • Debian Project Leader -- currently Sam Hocevar
  • PostgreSQL Project Board representative -- currently Robert Treat

External links

• Official website

Debian
Infrastructure	Debian Manifesto · DCC Alliance · DebConf · Software in the Public Interest · Debian Free Software Guidelines · Debian Social Contract · Alioth
Software	dpkg · APT · aptitude · debconf package · Debian-Installer · Debian Iceweasel · Alien · Jigdo · dash
Derivatives	Debian GNU/Linux · Debian GNU/Hurd · Custom Debian Distribution · GNU variants
People	Ian Murdock · Bruce Perens · List of Debian Project Leaders

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