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| Industry | Internet Services |
| Founded | Houston, Texas (2002) |
| Headquarters | Houston, Texas, USA |
| Key people | Rob Levin, Founder, President, Executive Director Christopher Mills, Treasurer Seth Schoen, Secretary Phil Stracchino, Board member |
| Products | Freenode |
| Revenue | under $25000 USD (2005) |
| Number of employees | 1, Rob Levin (2006) |
| Website | pdpc.us |
The Peer-Directed Projects Center (PDPC) is an organisation led and solely operated by Rob Levin (lilo) (President and Executive Director) which runs the freenode IRC network.
The PDPC is incorporated in the state of Texas, USA; and is an IRS 501(c)(3) charitable and educational organization.
Goals
The PDPC website describes themselves 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.
PDPC can be found on Guidestar. Because their income was less than $25,000, they were not required to file a 990.
According to their 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 it's development.
Although the PDPC is mostly based around the freenode IRC Network, their website says there may be future projects to which the PDPC is investigating, seeking funding to take on charitable social services projects for the communities.
See also
External links
- Overview of PDPC
- GNU Project Will Use Freenode as Its Official IRC Network –press release
- Buy a piece of Net nostalgia for $5,000 –The Register article critical of the PDPC