April
association for the promotion of free software in the French-speaking world
Facts
20 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- nonprofit organization
- Official website
- www.april.org[9]
- Legal form
- declared association[12]
- Official name
- ASS PROMO RECHERCHE INFORMATIQUE LIBRE[10]
Status and dates
- Inception
- November 1996[8]
Industry and activity
- Industry
- other voluntary membership organizations (France)[6]
Financials
- Total revenue
- 183,300 EUR[13]
People
- Founder
- Frédéric Couchet[3]
- Chairperson
- Frédéric Couchet (1996–2004), Benoît Sibaud (2004–2010), Tangui Morlier (2010–2012), Lionel Allorge (2012–2015), Jean-Christophe Becquet (2015–2020), Véronique Bonnet (2020–2022), Magali Garnero (2022–present)[7]
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- Website
- www.april.org
- Founded by
- Frédéric Couchet
- Headquarters
- Paris
- Donations
- 183000.0
- Motto text
- Promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre[11]
- Movement
- free software movement[4]
- Position held by head of the organization
- APRIL president[14]
- Revenue
- 183300.0
- Social media followers
- 4.8k (4.7k–6.7k, n=4)
🏷️ Also known as
en April
fr Association pour la promotion et la recherche en informatique libre
fr ASS PROMO RECHERCHE INFORMATIQUE LIBRE
ru Эйприл
🔖 Identifiers · 11
- EU Transparency Register ID
- 748730712579-06
- Framalibre ID
- april
- Freebase ID
- /m/03qcqr7
- French National Assembly Lobbyist ID
- 2092
- Mailing list archive URL
- listes.april.org
- Mastodon address
- aprilorg@pouet.april.org
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 868039980
- OpenCorporates ID
- fr/440832301
- Répertoire national des associations ID
- W751168617
- SIREN number
- 440832301
- X (Twitter) username
- aprilorg
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Summary
April is a nonprofit organization[1].