Parrot Foundation

The Parrot Foundation is a non-profit organization based in the United States established under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

It was formed in June 2008 to help promote the development of the Parrot process virtual machine (Parrot VM) and related source code. In addition, it provides a means for companies and organizations to provide funding to Parrot VM related activities. It also licenses the Parrot VM and protects the Parrot VM intellectual property.

Board of directors
The Parrot Foundation has a board of directors, elected by the voting members of the foundation. The current board consists of:


 * James Keenan, Chairman
 * Jerry Gay, Chairman
 * Andrew Whitworth, Vice President and Treasurer
 * Jonathan Leto, Secretary

Initial Board of directors

 * Allison Randal, Chairman
 * Jerry Gay, President
 * Will Coleda, Vice President
 * Shane Warden, Secretary
 * Jeff Horwitz, Treasurer

Voting membership
In order to become a voting member of the Parrot Foundation, the following conditions must be met:
 * Make at least two contributions to the project
 * Nomination by at least two existing voting members
 * Submittal of a signed contributor license agreement

Sponsor membership
Sponsor membership is a non-voting membership and requires a yearly financial contribution. Current sponsor members are:
 * ActiveState
 * BBC
 * NLNet Foundation
 * Mozilla Foundation

Advisory board
Current Advisory Board
 * Jeff Hobbs, ActiveState
 * Curtis Poe, BBC