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Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. Two months until IGA. Sign up for the meeting now. Our annual membership meeting is due to be held on Sunday April 7th 2024, 5pm Paris (16:00 UTC) . "When are the others turning up?" Don't delay, please see Sign-Up Procedure for IGA . For anyone who has not attended previously, a look at the IGA group will give you an idea of how the meeting is conducted online. 2. Speaking of groups of animals... Our…

For other languages: ipernity club members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article. (Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.) Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. This weekend we are celebrating a 5 years anniversary , as on September 1, 2017, we members took over the operation of this website and thus saved it from disappearing. Since then, we have overcome all challenges. We are g…

In reply to our various calls for candidatures for the mandates of Vice-President and Treasurer, the following three persons have come forward: Blue rubber octopus (Ben Mesander) - as Vice-President. Ben has been a member since 2013. He wrote a download tool for ipernity in 2016 and offered help to establish an internal programming team early last year. He stands for the freedom of art. In this respect, he fits our spirit. In his professional life he works as an executive leader of s…

For other languages: ipernity members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article. (Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.) Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Copyright violations have again becom…

For other languages: ipernity members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article. (Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.) Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Last Sunday, March 29, 2021, the Ipernity General Assembly 2021 took place. The previous Board of our Association was discharged for its activities in 2020. The p…

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) The external IT costs invoiced so far for troubleshooting of the upload problem amount to 7,912 EUR. This unforeseen burden on our club's coffers is eased by many donations, which meanwhile add up to 2,557 EUR *) . We sincerely thank all donors. For further debugging, an IT specialist has contacted us who is related to a club me…

⏩ Deutsche Version ⏩ Version française Dear members and friends of ipernity, A turbulent year ends. In everyday life, we were confronted with incidents that were not even vaguely imaginable at the start of the year. And with regard to our website we also encountered some very critical challenges. In spring, we were struck by an interruption in the connection to PayPal. The cause was that our website was using outdated software that PayPal no longer accepted. In summer, a se…

⏩ Version française ⏩ English version Liebe Mitglieder und Freunde von ipernity, ein turbulentes Jahr geht zu Ende. Im Alltag wurden wir mit Ereignissen konfrontiert, die am Jahresbeginn nicht ansatzweise vorstellbar waren. Und im Hinblick auf unsere Webseite begegneten uns ebenfalls einige kritische Herausforderungen. Im Frühjahr wurden wir von einer Unterbrechung der Verbindung zu PayPal überrascht. Die Ursache war, dass unsere Webseite veraltete Software verwendete,…

[EN] Dear club members of ipernity! In view of private and professional worries of many members due to the Corona crisis, the ima team discussed whether the general meeting should be postponed. We have decided not to do so. After all, the virus has not yet reached most of us, even though the fear has gone around and we are already experiencing many restrictions in our everyday lives. Fortunately, these do not affect communication via ipernity, which for many members is an important par…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Lately there has been a proliferation of copyrighted third party content presented as own creation. Please be reminded, the Terms of Service prohibit the use of content that violates copyright protections. To protect the best interests of our website and photographers, IMA reserves the right to delete content found to be in violation of copyright laws with or without prior notice. To avoid this inconvenience or embarrassment we strongly rec…

In letzter Zeit geht irgendwie alles ein bisschen drunter und drüber. Politisch zumindest. Da macht man sich neben rechts und links auch Gedanken zum Oben und Unten . Wenn sich z.B. Astronauten zu lange im All aufhalten, dann verlieren sie nach einer Weile völlig den Sinn für oben und unten. Sie können dann auch nicht mehr die Unterlippe von der Oberlippe unterscheiden. Beim Bodenpersonal ist das natürlich einfach zu bestimmen. Ein Ober z.B., der hat Oberlippen. Und diese Oberlippen bestehe…

18.12.2018. Anglizismen infiltrieren in zunehmendem Masse die deutsche Sprache. Die (internationalen) sozialen Netzwerke sind da nicht ganz unschuldig daran, da dort die englische Sprache als Brückenbauer dient und so das Deutsch langsam "verwässert". Dies hat Auswirkungen bis tief ins kulturelle Erbe der deutschen Sprache, wie das nachfolgende Beispiel zeigt. Nicht-Schweizer mögen mir gelegentliche Helvetismen verzeihen ;-) (für Küre Bigler) W e i h n a c h t s z e i t –––…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) We apologize that ipernity was temporarily unavailable last Saturday. A recently requested renewal of the website security certificate had not been executed technically. Resolving this problem in the early hours of a Saturday was a big challenge for the team but we succeeded and downtime was minimized. With regard to another dysfunction (concerning the payment service Skrill) you'll get a separate information soon. 2) In January, ima will se…

Immer wieder taucht die Frage auf, wie man ein PiP (Picture in a Picture) macht. Dies möchte ich erklären mit einem Bild, in das zwei PiP eingefügt werden sollen. Die PiP sollen außerdem von anderen Ip-Mitgliedern nur als PiP gesehen werden, und nicht in der Galerie. Man geht so vor: Das Hauptbild und die beiden anderen, die als PiP eingefügt werden sollen, lädt man auf die Ip-Seite. Die künftigen PiP-Bilder werden jetzt nur für den Besitzer sichtbar gemacht durch jeweils Anklicken, so das…

[EN] Against all odds A year–end message from the ima–Team It was in December 2016 when the founder and CEO of Ipernity S.A., Christophe Ruelle, announced the closing of the platform ipernity.com by January 2017. (1) It’s now the end of 2017 and ipernity is still online. What happened? Of course, members were scared, disappointed and started looking for alternatives to Ipernity. But true alternatives were (and are) hard to find. Quite a bunch of users moved over to flickr – bu…

[EN] Dear Members and friends of ipernity! On 8th of September - one week after the transfer of this website from ipernity S.A to ima - we've informed you that we would recheck the deadline for the acceptance of subscriptions, which have been made before Dec. 31st, 2016, if the site’s financial condition would allow it. Meanwhile we've evaluated the whole database of ipernity (with more than 210,000 accounts) completely. The result is pleasing: The number of club-members is sufficient (…

[EN] Dear Members, we want to inform you about the progress of the transfer process contemporarily today: 1) Unfortunately there are still technical difficulties with regard to the transfer of the bank accounts from IPERNITY S.A. to IMA, concerning use of certain credit cards. We are working to solve those problems. In this context there are also technical difficulties with PAYPAL in several cases. We estimate that these problems will be resolved Friday, 15th of September, 2017. We also a…

N E W S ============================================================= from Sami Serola ... Sunday the 04.06.2017 www.ipernity.com/doc/serola/44775824 = EN = Dear Users, It is estimated IMA will take over the Ipernity platform legally between the end of June 2017 to the end of August 2017. The end of August 2017 is more likely since Ipernity S.A. needs to be delisted from Euronext. Based on the administrator’s statement, he sees no objection to IMA’s takeover and indicates…

Hello, I'm sad to announce that we have a possible fraud artist in the donation of IMA crowdfunding for ipernity. It means that rather than almost 21k, we are at almost 18k which is still a great number in such a few day. IMA contacted Indigogo (who owns Generosity) to investigate the question. It doesn't mean that giving through Generosity isn't safe, simply that somebody stole credit card numbers somewhere and are using it to make donation for odd reasons. Please continue to par…

Diese Geschichte veröffentlichte ich bei Ipernity am 12.01.2009 ............................. fr - eo - eo/cz - en - es - rus - cn - jap - nl - hu - it Wieviele Leben - eine Geschichte 1…