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Peer-Directed Projects Center
Type	Nonprofit
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
Industry	Internet Services
Products	freenode
Revenue	under $25000 USD (2005)
Employees	0^{[citation needed]}
Website	Official Website

The PDPC is a 501(c)(3) public charity^[1] organization which runs the freenode IRC network, where many prominent open source projects operate an IRC chat service, including Ubuntu, KDE, Wikimedia, GNU, Debian 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.

1 Goals
2 History
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Goals

PDPC was created to run the freenode network and to establish a variety of programs relating to peer-directed project communities. 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^[2] use the freenode network for communication. However, other projects that focus on community-driven progress are also welcomed.

[edit] History

The PDPC was founded and initially directed by the late^[3] Rob Levin (a.k.a. lilo). In early November, the board went through a reshuffle and new members were installed. Seth Schoen left and Christel Dahlskjaer, senior freenode staffer became the secretary and head of staff on freenode in Schoen's place. Also joining the board was David Levin, Rob's brother.^[4]