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Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. One month until IGA. Sign up by April 3rd in order to attend. Our annual membership meeting will be held online on Sunday April 7th 2024, 5pm [Correction: 6pm] Paris (16:00 UTC) . 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. There are two mandates open for election. 2. Meeting in the real world. We are ind…

[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…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The implementation of subscription options for users with high storage requirements has been completed. Instead of individual 100 GB boosts, as originally planned, a newly created Plus subscription with 250 GB included storage space will be provided : This was easier…

[EN] Dear Members, We are thrilled to announce that we are about to take the last steps of IMA's take-over of the Ipernity platform and service. IMA is now handling the financial aspects of the site. IMA made the first payment to Amazon Web Services for August and will continue to pay the operating costs to ensure the site runs without interruption. This is a major accomplishment in the transition from Ipernity S.A. to IMA . However, technical issues such as renewal options still need…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, Seasons Greetings! With the coming change of season we are reminded that we are a global community. We are happy that here on our website we are able to enjoy, both the cold low winter light and the brightness of hot summer. What a pleasure to share these moments with each other. We are thankful for this community which shows us how varied our world is. Peace be with you. 1. Statement from our Club President about AI images. We've noticed th…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) During the last 6 months our website has been updated in many parts. In addition to all kinds of small bug fixes, the Breaking-News function and the freely adjustable background color have been introduced. The “Terms of Service” have been updated as well as “About ipernity” and “History”. The subscription page has been redesigned, the old FAQ replaced by a completely new version. The geo-localization was migrated to Open-Street-Map, the inte…

[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…

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) More than 70 ipernity members participated in our club's first annual Wo…

Photo contribution from 2022 World Photography Day      Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. World Photography Day Our event on August 19, 2022 was a joyous success. Over 50 members participated. With photographs from Austria to Australia, from Poland to Peru - over 12 countries are represented - truly a World event!! Contributions can be viewed in the group World Photography Day . If you have interest in how the event will be run next year, please add to the discussion…

[EN] Hello to you all, The survey IMA conducted is over and the results has been published on their website and in the group . The encouraging results mean that we can hope for a successful proposition from IMA. They are currently finalizing the legal structure of the association, it is now a matter of hours. For more information, visit the website Ipernity Members Association (IMA): www.ipernityma.wixsite.com/ipernityma (English) www.ipernityma.wixsite.com/ipernityma/franca…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. Bulletin from our club president. On 7 October 2023 we were presented with a claim for monetary damages from a well-established and reputable German-headquartered company that specializes in obtaining compensation from intellectual property theft (e.g. copyright infringements) because of the actions of an ipernity member. He is now a past member because his account was promptly deleted along with the image that had been uploaded without the photog…

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) We regret the interruption in operations last weekend. However, we are very pleased that our IT service partner Qwellcode GmbH (Salzkotten, Germany) provid…

⏩ English version ⏩ Deutsche Version Chers membres et amis d'ipernity, Une année turbulente se termine. Dans la vie quotidienne, nous avons été confrontés à des incidents qui n'étaient même pas vaguement imaginables au début de l'année. Et en ce qui concerne notre site web, nous avons également rencontré des défis très critiques. Au printemps, nous avons été frappés par une interruption de la connexion à PayPal. La cause en était que notre site web utilisait un logiciel o…

⏩ 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 members and friends of ipernity! 1) The summer collection of Frontpage pictures is now online. We thank all members who have enriched it with new contributions. 2) This morning we successfully exchanged one of our main servers. For this technical operation we had the support of an AWS expert from Innovations ON . He is currently checking our entire server architecture for the optimal balance between adequacy and performance to make sure that our website is running on an up…

[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. Pam's recovery is gradually progressing. Periodical information can be found at Clickity Click www.ipernity.com/home/christine.bentley . 2. On Monday, Oct. 15. 2018, our returnee offer ends. So far it has been accepted by 139 users. More than 277,500 documents are now publicly visible again. The additional contribution margin is 3,543 EUR. Less the mailing costs and the cost reduction missed during the three-and-a-half-month offer phase, 1,…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Summary of the General Assembly of Members. We thank all of you who attended the online meeting. Please refer to the separate article: 2024 IGA Report . We have a plan to simplify the voting process, without the need for emails with links to each PollUnit, while still having a secure voting system. 2) Meeting in the real world. Last weekend, numerous ipernity members went to Hamburg to meet face to face. See Hamburg 2024 group . With…

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[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…