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Association

OpenPlanetary is a small international non-profit organisation, which addresses the need of the planetary science community for sharing ideas and collaborating on common planetary research and data analysis problems, new challenges, and opportunities.

Our Mission

Our mission is to promote and facilitate the open practice of planetary science and data analysis for professionals and amateurs by organising events and conducting collaborative projects aimed at creating scientific, technical, and educational resources, tools, and data accessible to all.

Our story

OpenPlanetary started back in 2015 from an initial participants effort to stay connected and share information related to and beyond the ESA’s first Planetary GIS Workshop. It then continued during the 2nd USGS Planetary Data Workshop and aggregated more people.

In 2018, we established as a non-profit organisation to provide us with a legal framework to sustainably fund our community framework, projects, and activities, and better serve the planetary science community as a whole.

Community

OpenPlanetary is a community-driven organisation made of and intended for research and education professionals: scientists, engineers, designers, teachers and students, as well as space enthusiasts and citizen scientists - across all planetary science disciplines, missions, working groups, space agencies and institutions.

Membership

Membership is free and open to anyone willing to learn from and share with others, and contribute to the effort to develop our framework, projects, and activities. As member of OpenPlanetary you are entitled to:

  • have access to Slack to discuss and collaborate with other members,
  • request admin rights to host and manage your project on our Github.

Members are invited to attend and can vote during yearly general assembly meetings of the organisation.

Board of Directors

We are a group of volunteers passionate about planetary data and open science. Together, we officially form the Board of Directors of the organisation. We lead and coordinate its activities and projects.

  • Nicolas Manaud (President, Co-Founder)
  • Chase Million (Secretary, Co-Founder)
  • Benoît Seignovert (Treasurer)
  • Trent Hare
  • Mario D’Amore
  • Michael Aye
  • Alessandro Frigeri
  • Matt Brealey
  • Mark Wieczorek
  • Sehajpal Singh
  • Julia Maia
  • Christian Tai Udovicic
  • Indhu Varatharajan

Former Board Members and Advisors

Many thanks to our former members of the OP Board of Directors and advisors.

  • Angelo Pio Rossi (Co-Founder)
  • Emily Law
  • Myles Lewando
  • Andrea Nass
  • Emily Lakdawalla
  • Jérôme Gasperi
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