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  • From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
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  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] Fwd: [drupal-support] SPI, Drupal IRC meeting
  • Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:18:53 -0800

The people at Drupal have started looking at NPOs and the like. Here is an
option they are considering which might also benefit us.


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Subject: [drupal-support] SPI, Drupal IRC meeting
Date: Monday 22 November 2004 12:38 pm
From: Dries Buytaert <dries AT buytaert.net>
To: drupal-devel AT drupal.org, drupal-support AT drupal.org
Cc: mako AT debian.org

Hello world,

while investigating our options to establish a Drupal Foundation [1],
wnorrix got me in touch with SPI, Inc [2]. SPI stands for 'Software in
the Public Interest', and is a non-profit organization that has become
an umbrella organization for Free Software projects (and Open Source
Software projects, I believe).

SPI's goal is to support such projects. For example, by being a member
of SPI, a project can make donations tax-deductible without the overhead
of establishing and running a non-profit organization themselves. SPI
can also act as a legal council. Notable "SPI member projects" are
Debian and Gnome. For a complete list of SPI's goals and existing
member projects, please consult their website [2].

We are currently evaluating whether (i) SPI could help Drupal and (ii)
whether Drupal would be eligible for SPI membership. To that extend, I
scheduled a public IRC meeting with Benjamin Mako Hill (mako), vice
president of SPI and Debian contributor.

The IRC meeting will take place Thursday November 25th at 17:00h UTC
(GMT+0). We'll gather in #drupal on the Freenode IRC network. Everyone
is welcome to join and to ask mako questions about SPI. In the mean
time, please read up on the SPI website [2]: many of your question's
answers are already there.

[1] http://drupal.org/node/12771
[2] http://www.spi-inc.org/

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