Software in the Public Interest
Encyclopedia
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
.
, a Condorcet method
) is composed of:
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
formed to help other organizations create and distribute free
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
/open-source software
Open-source software
Open-source software is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open...
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
Free software community
The free-software community is an informal term that refers to the users and developers of free software as well as supporters of the free-software movement. The movement is sometimes referred to as the open-source software community or a subset thereof...
.
Associated Projects
Current associated projects of SPI are:http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/- ankur.org.in
- aptosid
- Arch LinuxArch LinuxArch Linux is an independently developed, Linux-based operating system for i686 and x86-64 computers. It is composed predominantly of free and open source software, and supports community involvement....
- DebianDebianDebian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...
- DrizzleDrizzle (database server)Drizzle is a free software/open source relational database management system that was forked from version 6.0 of the MySQL DBMS.Like MySQL, Drizzle has a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language...
- DrupalDrupalDrupal is a free and open-source content management system and content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and...
- freedesktop.orgFreedesktop.orgfreedesktop.org is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for free software desktop environments for the X Window System on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It was founded by Havoc Pennington from Red Hat in March 2000.The organisation focuses on the user....
- FrescoFresco (computing)In computing, Fresco was a windowing system intended as a replacement for the X Window System. It was free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License ....
(unmaintained) - GalleryGallery ProjectGallery is an open source project enabling management and publication of digital photographs and other media through a PHP-enabled web server. Photo manipulation includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and flipping, among other things...
- GNUstepGNUstepGNUstep is a free software implementation of Cocoa Objective-C libraries , widget toolkit, and application development tools not only for Unix-like operating systems, but also for Microsoft Windows. It is part of the GNU Project.GNUstep features a cross-platform, object-oriented development...
- GNU TeXmacsGNU TeXmacsGNU TeXmacs is a free scientific word processor and typesetting component of the GNU Project. It was inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs, though it shares no code with those programs. TeXmacs does use TeX fonts. It is written and maintained by Joris van der Hoeven. The program produces structured...
- JenkinsJenkins (software)Jenkins, previously known as Hudson, is an open source continuous integration tool written in Java. The project renamed itself after a dispute with Oracle who claims the right to trademark the Hudson name and has applied for such a trademark as of December 2010...
- LibreOfficeLibreOfficeLibreOffice is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. It is largely compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms...
- madwifi.org
- OFTCOpen and Free Technology CommunityThe Open and Free Technology Community is an IRC network that provides collaboration services to members of the free software community in any part of the world. OFTC is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations...
- OpenOffice.orgOpenOffice.orgOpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software...
- OpenVASOpenVASOpenVAS is a framework of several services and tools offering avulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.The actual security scanner is accompanied with a daily updated feed...
- Open Voting Foundation (unmaintained)
- Open64Open64Open64 is an open source, optimizing compiler for the Itanium and x86-64 microprocessor architectures. It derives from the SGI compilers for the MIPS R10000 processor, called MIPSPro. It was initially released in 2000 as GNU GPL software under the name Pro64. The following year, University of...
- OpenWrtOpenWrtOpenWrt is a Linux distribution primarily targeted at routing on embedded devices. It comprises a set of about 2000 software packages, installed and uninstalled via the opkg package management system. OpenWrt can be configured using the command-line interface of BusyBox ash, or the web interface...
- OSUNIXOSUNIXOSUNIX is a community driven OpenSolaris distribution. OSUNIX is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest....
- Path64
- PostgreSQLPostgreSQLPostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...
- PrivoxyPrivoxyPrivoxy is a non-caching web proxy with filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers before the page is rendered by the browser. Privoxy is a "privacy enhancing proxy", filtering Web pages and removing advertisements...
- The HeliOS ProjectHeliOSHeliOS was a Unix-like operating system for parallel computers developed and sold by Perihelion Software. It was most commonly used on various Transputer systems, but also supported other architectures. The system provided a micro-kernel that implemented a distributed name space and messaging...
- Tux4Kids
- YafaRay
Board of Directors
Its current board (elected by the Schulze methodSchulze method
The Schulze method is a voting system developed in 1997 by Markus Schulze that selects a single winner using votes that express preferences. The method can also be used to create a sorted list of winners...
, a Condorcet method
Condorcet method
A Condorcet method is any single-winner election method that meets the Condorcet criterion, which means the method always selects the Condorcet winner if such a candidate exists. The Condorcet winner is the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election.In modern...
) is composed of:
- President: Bdale GarbeeBdale GarbeeBdale Garbee is a computer specialist who works with GNU/Linux, particularly Debian. He is currently the GNU/Linux CTO at Hewlett-Packard and the current President of Software in the Public Interest....
- Vice-President: Joerg Jaspert
- Secretary: Jonathan McDowell
- Treasurer: Michael Schultheiss
- Board of Directors:
- Clint Adams
- Robert Brockway
- Joshua D. Drake
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
- Martin Zobel-Helas
- Advisors:
- Legal counsel — Gregory Pomerantz
- Debian Project Leader
- PostgreSQLPostgreSQLPostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...
Project Board representative — currently Robert Treat
See also
Other free software umbrella organizations:- Apache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationThe Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers...
(ASF) - Software Freedom ConservancySoftware Freedom ConservancyThe Software Freedom Conservancy is an organization that provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for free/open source software projects. The conservancy was established in 2006. As of June 2011, the conservancy had 26 member projects, including Boost, BusyBox, Git, Inkscape, jQuery, Samba,...