Thanks for linking us! Hello everyone, I’m Viet Nguyen, OpenBeta’s founder and project lead. I got hooked on climbing 11 years ago, and around the same time,

Thanks for linking us! Hello everyone, I’m Viet Nguyen, OpenBeta’s founder and project lead. I got hooked on climbing 11 years ago, and around the same time, I began a new dev job in the enterprise open source industry. Inspired by OpenStreetMap, I created OpenBeta as a platform for climbers to share climbing information under a fair and open license (climbing data: CC0, source code: MIT & GPLv3). *One clarification:* As an all-volunteer and nonprofit tech project, OpenBeta mission is about empowering the community with the data about rock climbing routes in human friendly and machine-readable format. It’s never about building digital guides and competing with guidebook authors. Everyone is welcome to incorporate our datasets & tools in their commercial projects. Besides climbing, many of us are hackers and data nerds. All we wanted is to be able to access and tinker with the community-generated climbing data to make maps of climbing walls, study Python Pandas and recommendation engines, etc. Open access to climbing data doesn’t have to be about the physical aspects of climbing. If I may leave 1 link, I’d like call your attention to our First Ascenionists data cleanup project. https://github.com/OpenBeta/fa-cleanup https://github.com/OpenBeta/fa-cleanup I’m looking for a project lead to help us out with the initiative. Best, Viet Nguyen