OpenPlanetary

OpenPlanetary is an international non-profit organisation, which address 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 is to promote and facilitate the open practice of planetary science and data analysis for professionals and amateurs by organizing events and conducting collaborative projects aimed at creating scientific, technical and educational resources, tools and data accessible to all. 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 non-profit organisation in order 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.