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Revision as of 07:36, 23 May 2007 by 87.223.255.80 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)| Company type | Nonprofit |
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| Industry | Internet Services |
| Founded | Houston, Texas (2002) |
| Headquarters | Houston, Texas |
| Key people | Christel Dahlskjaer, President Richard Hartmann, Treasurer Phil Stracchino, Secretary and formerly Rob Levin, Founder, late President and Executive Director |
| Products | freenode |
| Revenue | under $25000 USD (2005) |
| Number of employees | 0 |
| Website | PDPC's page |
The PDPC is the organisation which runs the freenode IRC network, where many prominent open source projects operate an IRC chat service, including Wikimedia, GNU and unofficially MySQL.
The PDPC is incorporated in the state of Texas, United States; and is an IRS 501(c)(3) charitable and educational organization.
Goals
The PDPC website describes the organisation as follows:
- Peer-Directed Projects Center, an IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporation, was created to run the freenode network and to establish a variety of programs relating to peer-directed project communities. Contributions to PDPC provide resources to help us establish those programs.
According to its charter, the PDPC exists "to help peer-directed project communities flourish", mostly based around free and open source software projects, and encouraging the use of free software through supporting its development. Many open source development groups including the GNU Project use the freenode network for communication. However, other projects that focus on community-driven progress are also welcomed.
History
The PDPC was founded and initially directed by the late Rob Levin (a.k.a. lilo) until he was hit by a car while cycling on 12 September 2006 and died on 16 September 2006. In early November the board went through a reshuffle and new members were brought in. Seth Schoen left and Christel Dahlskjaer, senior freenode staffer became the secretary and head of staff on freenode in his place. Also joining the board was David Levin, Rob's brother.
References
- "GNU Project Will Use Freenode as Its Official IRC Network", GNU Project, August 26, 2002
- "Rob Levin passed away", freenode.net, September 16, 2006
- New board of directors for PDPC announced, freenode.net, November 11, 2006