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:


 * 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
 * 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
 * Rocket
 * 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