Gallery joins SPI as an associated project

Gallery and Software in the Public Interest (SPI) are pleased to announce an agreement to place Gallery under the SPI umbrella as a member project. With this agreement, Gallery joins such esteemed projects as the Debian, PostgreSQL and Drupal projects and the Open Voting Foundation.

Bharat Mediratta, Gallery Project founder said: "The SPI umbrella provides much needed financial and legal services for Gallery and frees us to do what we do best -- build a best-of-breed open source software product."

SPI was incorporated as a non-profit organization on June 16, 1997 in the state of New York. Since then, it has become an umbrella organization for projects from the community.

In 1999, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States government determined that under section 501 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code SPI qualifies for 501 (c) (3) (non-profit organization) status under section 509 (a) (1) and 170 (b) (1) (A) (vi). This means that all donations made to SPI and its supported projects are tax deductible for donors in the United States.

What this means for you: 100% of your donations will now go directly to Gallery. Every cent that you donate can now be spent on our hosting expenses (hardware, bandwidth, colocation fees) as well as our expenses when we have team meetups. Our expenses are also now tax free so we save a little on every expense that we have!