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[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, This morning at 10:09 am the automatic monitoring systems of our website reported a fundamental dysfunction. Many of you have also quickly informed us about this outage. We thank you for that. The problem was that one of the main servers we hosted at the Amazon Web Service unexpectedly stopped. Thanks to the help of Christophe Ruelle, the former director of the ipernity website, normal operation was resumed at 13:05 (CEST). Fortunately, th…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! To address questions being raised about Irene Steeves and her groups, I regret to say, we received several complaints about content Irene displayed in her photostream. IMA conducted a thorough investigation, from which the results required account suspension/deletion based on the Terms of Service and Guide of Good Conduct. This action was also taken to protect the best interests of all parties involved and stakeholders. As stewards entrusted to…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The final statement of the fundraising for the reprogramming of ipernity is now available. 75 club members and 145 "free" users participated. The sum of the raised capital amounts to 17,114 EUR (57% of 30,000 EUR). Therefore the reprogramming cannot yet be commissioned as planned. 2) Before we consider external funding opportunities, we would like to address those club members who have not participated to date, although they would be econom…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The display of shooting positions has meanwhile been migrated from GoogleMaps to OpenStreetMap. This map is free of charge and has even better accuracy than GoogleMaps. In contrast to earlier times, the exact address and GPS coordinates are now also displayed. You can copy them directly into other applications, such as Google-Earth. 2) For the GEO-positioning of photos we have to use Google's fee-based service until further notice, because…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) On Wednesday our fundraising campaign for the reprogramming finished. Despite the dedicated participation of 75 club members, who contributed the majority of the funds, the result of 16,745 EUR (56%) stayed far below the required amount of 30,000 EUR. The ima team will now discuss how to proceed. 2) Unfortunately, the participation of "free" users was far below expectations. Nevertheless, we would like to thank all those who donated som…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Our first online General Assembly was a success. As per the statutes, we make the minutes of that meeting available, and choose to make them public, and not restricted to club members. For archive purposes a complete sequence of screen captures of the comments in the discussion was saved in a PDF file which can only be opened by club members. However, the Welcome! discussion can be viewed by all. 2) The subscription page has b…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Seasonally fitting we welcome the visitors of our homepage from today with the Easter pictures you provided. We thank you for your involvement! 2) This Sunday , March 31, 2019, 17:00 CEST, the Ipernity General Assembly (IGA2019) will take place. The converted start time depending on the time zone in which you live can be found here: IGA Starting Time International IGA2019 Countdown 3) 40 club members have correc…

Instructions for attending the IGA2019 ./. Instructions pour assister à l’IGA2019 ./. Anleitung zur Teilnahme an der IGA2019

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) To date, 50 club members and 35 "free" users have made financial contributions to the reprogramming of ipernity. The amounts paid in adds up to 8,543 EUR (28,5 % of the required starting capital). 2) This Sunday, 10 March, 18:00 CET, there will be a trial run for the General Assembly. All members who have registered by then can participate. 3) Please do not wait until the last day with your candidatures! It is important that all members…

Limerick über den Zölibat Ein mir bekannter katholischer Pfarrer schrieb gerne Limericks. Unter vielen anderen machte er folgenden Limerick über den Zölibat. Ich schaute ihn etwas ungläubig an, aber er sagte lächelnd: » Es hatte ein Pfarrer aus Kettwig Eine Haushälterin namens Hedwig. Sie war ihm ergeben mit Leib und mit Leben, weshalb sie ihm niemals vom Bett wich. « Kettwig ist ein Stadtteil von Essen

Agenda of the Ipernity General Assembly 2019 ./. Ordre du jour de l'Assemblée Générale d'Ipernity 2019 ./. Tagesordnung der ipernity-Mitglieder-Generalversammlung 2019

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Seasonally fitting I welcome the visitors to our homepage from today with the spring pictures you provided. I thank you for your involvement! 2) As of today 38 Club members and 18 "free" users have already committed themselves financially for the reprogramming of ipernity. The sum of the paid contributions meanwhile amounts to 6,338 EUR (21% of the required starting capital). 3) The ima team has now defined a strategic guideline fo…

Sehr geehrte ipernity-Nutzerin, Sehr geehrter ipernity-Nutzer, Die ipernity-Webseite, die Sie derzeit nutzen, wurde zwischen 2009 und 2013 entwickelt. Konzeption und Technologie sind inzwischen zehn Jahre alt. Nach 2013 ist die Webseite organisch weiter gewachsen. Sie besteht inzwischen aus mehr als 21.000 vernetzten html-Dateien. Die Betriebssicherheit nimmt zusehends ab. Die notwendigen Anpassungen an den Stand der Technik werden immer schwieriger und teurer. Es ist deshalb unausweichli…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity 1) We have heard your urgent wish to specify the reprogramming of our website in more details! A corresponding elaboration will be presented to you in the next Newsflash on March 01, 2019. 2) Furthermore, we would like to fulfill the repeatedly expressed wish not to limit our request for financial support of the project to a 5-year offer. We have calculated shorter running possibilities, which we will offer you today in addition and will also s…

[DE] Software-Update-Strategie ./. [FR] Stratégie de mise à jour du logiciel ./. Today we would like to present you a concept for the increasingly urgent upgrading of ipernity to the state of the art. This is combined with the long announced transition offer to free users. It is valid from today for three months, i.e. until 15 May 2019. Dear members and friends of ipernity! Over the past 12 months, our community has spent around 22,000 EUR on maintaining and updating our w…

DEAR ALL THIS AFTERNOON A LARGE ENVELOPE FULL OF LOVE ARRIVED TODAY !!!! I AM TOTALLY OVERWHELMED. , I CANT UNDERSTAND WHAT I HAVE DONE TO DESERVE ALL THIS LOVE AND KINDNESS. I ALSO HAVE A BOX FULL OF CARDS SENT OVER THE TIME I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL AND REHAB. I AM COMPLETELY STUNNED AND AMAZED. I NEVER REALISED HOW MANY PEOPLES LIVES I HAD TOUCHED . I WAS BROUGHT UP TO REACH OUT TO REACH OUT PROPLE WITH A KIND WORD OR DEED . ITS WHAT MY BELOVED PARENTS BROUGHT ME UP TO DO. I HAD CONTA…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) To date, 213 users have renewed their subscriptions early. As a result, the liquidity of the community has increased by 8,797 EUR. Unfortunately, it is not about additional income, but only about temporal shifts. Due to the associated losses in the exchange rate adjustments, even 374 EUR less will come into the cash register. 2) As of today, the adjusted contributions to costs will come into force. We would like to point out again that the…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) We would like to inform you that in the meantime 4 donations have already been received via the donate button, which was set up on the login page in December. The sum of the donations is 210 EUR. 2) The response to our advice to extend your subscriptions before the planned adjustment of contributions to the changed exchange rates is far above expectations. 124 club members have already made use of this option. We thank you for this great vo…

More and more I write less cause not all is already said but from all that remains unsaid nothing would justify the mystery of life. Cada vez mais escrevo menos não que tudo esteja dito mas de tudo o que fica por dizer nada justificaria o mistério da vida. by Armando TABORDA, in "PALAVRAS QUE AS MARÉS APAGAM", Edição Escola de Mar, 2014 (1st edition, 2012; 2nd edition, 2019)

[EN] This morning a security certificate for ipernity expired. To update it, we need support from an IT professional. However, due to the weekend and holiday situation, nobody is available. Fortunately, Gerrit Fischer gave us a tip on how to log in anyway. We benefit from the fact that ipernity is not (yet) completely encrypted, but only the login and payment page: You simply backdate the Windows system and then log in. Go with the mouse pointer to the system date in the lower right co…