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Encyclopedia > Software in the Public Interest
Software in the Public Interest
Image:Spi2.jpg
Founded: June 16, 1997
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 open-source software and hardware. Anyone is eligible to apply for membership, and contributing membership is available to those who participate actively in the free software community. Image File history File links Spi2. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width {{{WidthUS}}} miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... Bdale Garbee is a former Debian Project Leader and current HP Linux CTO. His full name is Barksdale Garbee; his first name is in honor of his maternal grandfather, Alfred D. Barksdale. ... A nonprofit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... Open source software refers to computer software available with its source code and under an open source license. ... Open source hardware refers to computer, or electronics, hardware that is designed in the same fashion as open-source software. ... // The free software community is also called the open source community or the Linux community. ...


Member Projects

Current member projects of SPI are:

Debian, organized by the Debian Project, is a widely used distribution of free software developed through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world. ... In computing, Fresco (formerly known as Berlin) is a windowing system. ... GNUstep is a free software implementation of NeXTs OpenStep Objective-C libraries (called frameworks), widget toolkit, and application development tools not only for Unix-like operating systems, but also for Microsoft Windows. ... The Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC) is an IRC network founded in 2001. ... PostgreSQL is a Free object-relational database server (database management system), released under a flexible BSD-style license. ... TeXmacs on Fedora Core 2 GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific word processor, which was both inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. ... The correct title of this article is wxWidgets. ... Drupal is a modular content management framework, content management system and blogging engine which was originally written by Dries Buytaert as a bulletin board system. ... freedesktop. ...

Board of directors

Its current board (elected by the Schulze method, a Condorcet method) is composed of: The Schulze method is a voting system developed in 1997 by Markus Schulze that selects a single winner using votes that express preferences. ... Any election method conforming to the Condorcet criterion is known as a Condorcet method. ...

  • President: Bdale Garbee
  • Vice-President: Michael Schultheiss
  • Secretary: Neil McGovern
  • Treasurer: Josh Berkus
  • Board of Directors:
  • Advisors:

Bdale Garbee is a former Debian Project Leader and current HP Linux CTO. His full name is Barksdale Garbee; his first name is in honor of his maternal grandfather, Alfred D. Barksdale. ... Ian W. Jackson is a long time Free Software author and Debian developer. ... Branden Robinson is the current Project Leader of the Debian Project, and its widely used distribution of free software developed through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world. ... Debian, organized by the Debian Project, is a widely used distribution of free software developed through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world. ... Anthony Towns, Australian programmer, is the current Debian Project Leader, one of the Debian ftpmasters and secretary of Linux Australia. ...

External links

Free software Portal
  • Official website

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