CAPIBARA Collaboration Agreement#
Version 1.0 | Effective Date: January 1, 2026#
1. Mission Statement#
The CAPIBARA Collaboration is an international, student-led initiative to develop and operate space-based observatories for high-energy astrophysics and cosmic ray research. We operate on principles of open science, educational training, and incremental technological development.
2. Organizational Structure#
Founding Director: Joan Alcaide Núñez (oversees collaboration-wide administration)
Program Directors:
CAPIBARA-CRD: Lluc Soler Manich
CAPIBARA-COSMOS: Joan Alcaide Núñez
Advisory Board: To be composed of 3-5 senior scientists/engineers
Member Institutions: To be composed by our host universities. Formalised via signing Memorandum of Understanding.
Note that each program has its own advisory board and member institutions.
3. Decision Making#
Collaboration-wide decisions (operation): Proposed and voted for consensus (minimum of >50%)
Strategic decisions: Consensus among program leads, majority of team members and advisory board
New member admissions: Approved by program leads
4. Intellectual Property (IP) Policy#
All hardware designs, software, and documentation are open source under MIT License (or the equivalent BSD-3-Clause) unless otherwise required by partner institutions.
Scientific data will be public with maximum 6-month proprietary period for analysis.
Publications must acknowledge “The CAPIBARA Collaboration” and follow our authorship policy.
Hardware designs and productions will be under the CERN-OHL-P-2.0 license
Documentation, papers, presentations, processed data will be available under a commons license CC-BY 4.0, except for work containing unpublished data or results. Attribution must be always included.
All rights are reserved for branding, logos and names.
5. Amendment Process#
This agreement can be amended by 2/3 vote of the Collaboration members. Optimally, there a majoritarian support by the advisory board.