Software in the Public Interest

American nonprofit organization

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Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

Founded| June 16, 1997; 28 years ago (1997-06-16)
Type| 501(c)(3)
Location|

* New York City, United States

Fields| Software

Key people

| Michael Schultheiss (President)
Stephen Frost (Vice President)[1]
Revenue|

* $723,853 (2020)
* $522,719 (2021)
* $485,337 (2022)[1]

Expenses|

* $341,298 (2020)
* $413,172 (2021)
* $546,645 (2022)[1]

Website| www.spi-inc.org

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.[2] 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.[3][4]

## Associated projects

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The 44 currently associated projects of SPI are:[5]

* 0 A.D.
* Adélie Linux
* ankur.org.in
* aptosid
* Arch Linux
* Arch Linux 32
* ArduPilot
* Battle for Wesnoth
* Compile Farm
* Debian
* FFmpeg
* Fluxbox
* Gallery
* Ganeti
* Gentoo Linux[6]
* 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
* SproutCore
* Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
* systemd
* The Mana World
* translatewiki.net
* Tux4Kids
* X.Org
* YafaRay

## Board of directors

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Its current board is composed of:[7]

* 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

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* Free and open-source software portal

* List of free and open-source software organizations

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Software In The Public Interest Inc - Full text of "Full Filing" for fiscal year ending Dec. 2022". Nonprofit Explorer. ProPublica. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
2. ^ "A Brief History of Debian". Debian Project. 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
3. ^ "Board elections/2007/en". Wikimedia. 2013-04-27. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
4. ^ "Board elections/2011/en". Wikimedia. July 2, 2012. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
5. ^ "SPI Associated Projects". Spi-inc.org. March 31, 2024. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
6. ^ Gentoo Linux becomes an SPI associated project Apr 10, 2024
7. ^ "SPI Board". Retrieved 2022-12-10.

## External links

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* Official website

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Projects|

* 0 A.D.
* Arch Linux
* Debian
* Drizzle
* Drupal
* FFmpeg
* Fluxbox
* freedesktop.org
* FreedomBox
* Gallery Project
* GNU TeXmacs
* GNUstep
* Jenkins
* LibreOffice
* MinGW
* Open and Free Technology Community
* Open Bioinformatics Foundation
* Open64
* OpenEmbedded
* OpenVAS
* OpenWrt
* OpenZFS
* PostgreSQL
* Privoxy
* SproutCore
* X.Org Foundation

People|

* Martin Michlmayr (President)
* Bdale Garbee

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