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Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

Founded	June 16, 1997 ; 26 years ago  ( 1997-06-16 )
Type	501(c)(3)
Location	New York State , 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 [ edit ]

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

Board of directors [ edit ]

Its current board is composed of: ^[7]

• President: Michael Schultheiss
• Vice-President: Stephen Frost
• Secretary: Forrest Fleming
• Treasurer: Hector Oron Martinez
• Board of Directors:
  • Joseph Conway
  • Milan Kupcevic
  • Jonatas L. Nogueira
  • Jeremy Stanley
  • Zach van Rijn

See also [ edit ]

• List of free and open-source software organizations

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Official website

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