The "
Peer Directed Projects Center" is a
nonprofit organisation. According to
http://freenode.net/contributions.shtml:
The purpose for which the corporation is organized is to help peer-directed project communities flourish. Peer-directed projects combine open, informal participation with broad licensing and wide dissemination of output.
PDPC exists to provide real-world resources to peer-directed communities.
The main service that the PDPC is currently providing is
freenode, previously known as
Open Projects Net