Foundation

Established in April 2004, The Eigenbase Project is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation; its mission is to support the design, development, standardization, and promotion of high-quality open source software for data management. Its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity status has been approved by the IRS, so donations to the project are tax-deductible. All software contributed to the project is made available to the general public under OSI-approved licensing. Eigenbase encourages high-quality contributions, both from volunteers in the open source community and from the software industry.

The project's nonprofit incorporation provides a number of benefits:

• The goals and existence of the project are kept independent from the diverse activities, aims, and lifetimes of its participants.
• The project cannot be co-opted for the non-public benefit of individuals.
• Intellectual property rights are well-defined for all software contributed.
• Participants are protected by limited liability laws.

Executives

• Damian Black serves as director for Eigenbase. Damian is a veteran of the Software Infrastructure industry, with a career spanning over 29 years. He started off at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories Europe where he worked on the fusion of logic programming, object-oriented and relational database systems before moving to work in consulting, sales then general management positions. Damian is also the CEO of SQLstream.
• Edan Kabatchnik serves as vice president for Eigenbase. Edan's 20-year Silicon Valley career in enterprise software includes positions at Oracle, Eventus, Sprout Group, RelayHealth, and Fourth Fleet in roles spanning from lead developer through CTO and Vice President of Product Development, which is his current role at SQLstream.

Mailing Address

The Eigenbase Project
P.O. Box 2184
El Granada, CA  94018