SPI board and officer elections

Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is pleased to announce the results 
of the recent board and officer elections.

Board elections were held from July 14-28 2011.

The board terms of David Graham and Jimmy Kaplowitz expired at this 
election. In addition one board seat was vacant at the time of the 
election, for a total of three available seats. David Graham chose not to 
stand at this election and has retired from the board. SPI would like to 
thank David for his participation on the board from 2004 - 2011. Clint 
Adams, Robert Brockway, Jimmy Kaplowitz and Trevor Walkley stood for 
election. Jimmy Kaplowitz was reelected to the board and Clint Adams and 
Robert Brockway were newly elected to the board. SPI would like to thank 
all candidates for their participation in the election and congratulate 
Clint Adams, Robert Brockway and Jimmy Kaplowitz for their election to the 
board.

The current directors are:

     * Bdale Garbee
     * Joerg Jaspert
     * Jonathan McDowell
     * Michael Schultheiss
     * Clint Adams
     * Robert Brockway
     * Joshua D. Drake
     * Jimmy Kaplowitz
     * Martin Zobel-Helas

Officer elections were held at the board meeting on August 10, 2011. All 
existing board members were elected unopposed.

The officers for 2011-2012 are:

     * President: Bdale Garbee
     * Vice-President: Joerg Jaspert
     * Secretary: Jonathan McDowell
     * Treasurer: Michael Schultheiss

SPI associated projects include:

     * ankur.org.in
     * aptosid
     * Debian
     * Drizzle
     * Drupal
     * freedesktop.org
     * Fresco
     * Gallery
     * GNUstep
     * GNU TeXmacs
     * Jenkins
     * LibreOffice
     * madwifi.org
     * OFTC
     * OpenOffice.org
     * OpenVAS
     * Open Voting Foundation
     * Open64
     * OpenWrt
     * OSUNIX
     * Path64
     * PostgreSQL
     * Privoxy
     * The HeliOS Project
     * Tux4Kids
     * Yafaray

Software in the Public Interest, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation 
under the laws of New York State.

Thanks,

Rob

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