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[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! Recently it was brought to our attention that uploading of music clips violated copyright laws. While German copyright laws are very strict and consist of no “fair use” doctrine, the copyright laws of most of the world do permit this doctrine for educational and non-commercial purposes. Typically regarding music, clips of 15 to 30 seconds are considered the standard of fair use. On the other hand, the German Federal Constitutional Court has a…

[FR] ▶️ Proposition de réactivation de l'espéranto [DE] ▶️ Reaktivierungsvorschlag für Esperanto [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, Ten months ago, we had decided to further maintain the ipernity website only in the seven main languages of the western hemisphere. This cut the software maintenance effort in half so we could achieve twice as much with our limited programming capacity. Despite this limitation, we do reach 99.3% of all club members in their native langua…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Updating the operating software of our servers with the support of innovations ON went without major difficulties. 2) The interruption in the automated PayPal payment process has thus been resolved. PayPal payments are now handled promptly again. 3) Next, innovations ON will take care of the credit card payment options that have been idle for over two years. If everything goes as expected, those options will be available again shortl…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! The problem with the PayPal module will be solved on Monday. It is an example of the problems that can occur when the operating software is not updated for 5 years. In this case security and encryption algorithms were out of date. It was our new IT service partner innovations ON who identified this as the cause of the error. So it was not any fault or bug in the ipernity software. Today, 1 July, we went through all the steps required to upda…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The widescreen mode of explore/whatshot/photos and explore/whatshot/videos has been further optimized. Expressed wishes have been taken into account as far as possible. In addition, the layout was harmonized with the display of 'Photos' and 'Groups'. The widescreen button has been moved to the drop-down Display menu (see 2), and the setting is remembered for use as your browse.…

oder: "Wie durch kleine Begebenheiten, Bilder eine ganz neue Bedeutung erfahren."

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! An unexpected replacement of one main server will be necessary in the next few days. Therefore our website has to be completely shut down for a while. The date and time of the shutdown cannot be stated yet. It depends on how we progress with the preparations. The duration of the interruption could be 12 to 48 hours. We ask for your understanding. Your ima team [FR] Chers membres et amis d'ipernity ! Un remplacement inatt…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) On May 11, 2020 we received a message from PicMonkey that the old version of this image processing program will be shut down at the end of the year. For the new version, there will not be any online interface projected by this third-party manufacturer (see the original message below). We have already recommended alternatives . Due to different user needs, we do not intend to link one of them to ipernity. 2) Due to our actively manag…

[FR] Paul écrit dans son épître aux Thessaloniciens que l’Empire romain agit comme un katechon, c’est-à-dire comme un pouvoir qui masque la réalité agissante de l’apocalypse. Or l’apocalypse correspond en même temps selon lui à la Parousie, qui est la seconde venue du Christ. L’effondrement de l’Empire, c’est l’apocalypse, mais c’est aussi la révélation de la rédemption. « La tradition des opprimés nous enseigne que ‘ l’état d’exception’ dans lequel nous vivons est la règle. Nous devons par…

I decided to start a new article, which I will update every now and then. I collect here useful online services discovered on Web. ➽ Coblis — Color Blindness Simulator Useful tool for testing your images and graphs, to see how they look for someone who has some color vision handicap. ➽ Linguee A very useful service to find out how different words and phrases translate into other languages. Linguee gives examples of various contexts. Here's an example how English expression "o…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! Our COVID-19 Help Offer has triggered a great movement of solidarity. To this point we received 48 donations*) with a total volume of 1,692 EUR. After deducting money transaction fees of 58 EUR, a net amount of 1,634 EUR is available for financial help. ▶️ Help can be granted for subscription renewals that are becoming due, up to no more than 30 days in advance. ▶️ The prerequisite is a financial emergency as a result of th…

Note: Article lead photo taken at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, NY on March 29, 2020. Background created from desert photo purchased from Shutterstock.® As the world remains gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic that has completely transformed our way of life and altered our priorities and filled so many with immense suffering, one can only look back to the to the life of Jesus, especially the time when he spent 40 days and nights in the desert at Mount Quarantania (Jabal al-Qarant…

[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…

The ima team proposes changes in the following parts of the ima statutes: ARTICLE V – MEMBERSHIP Section 1 – Membership requirements: Membership ( basic or premium ) is open to any physical person aged 16 years or older. Membership is granted upon payment of the annual membership fee. Section 3 – Members' rights: Each member may vote for the election of the members of the Board. Members age 21 or older may be elected to the Board. Premium members are entitled to use all features…

[EN] In accordance with the statutes, the following mandates are to be newly filled this year: A: Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO, election period until 2022) B: Chief Technology Officer (CTO, election period until 2022) C: Two auditors (Election period until 2021) The ima team proposes the following candidates: A: Dr. Bernhard Westrup , Austria B: Rob Stamp , United Kingdom C1: Markus Fritsch , Germany C2: Thomas Reck , Germany Candidatures from the member…

Agenda of the Ipernity General Assembly 2020 (IGA2020) Ordre du jour de l'Assemblée Générale d'Ipernity 2020 (IGA2020) Tagesordnung der ipernity-Mitglieder-Generalversammlung 2020 (IGA2020)

[EN] Dear club members of ipernity! 1) We hereby officially invite you to attend the IGA2020 in accordance with article VI,3 of the Statutes of the Ipernity Members Association as amended on March 5, 2019. 2) The IGA2020 will take place on Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 5pm CEST (15:00 UTC). It will take place as an online meeting via the ipernity platform . According to article V,1 of the Statutes, all club members with a paid account who are older than 16 years and have verified th…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) On our homepage, which is the showcase for accidental visitors from the World-Wide-Web, your most beautiful spring pictures are now online. We would like to thank all of you who submitted new contributions. 2) The most proposed motives are sea horizons, beaches or lakes, followed by flowers and birds. We are looking forward to getting more pictures with other motifs to make the ip…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) There is currently a problem in the PayPal payment process. Deposits are accepted correctly, but are not automatically booked through. The manual activation of subscription renewals and their confirmation can take up to 48 hours. We ask for patience until the error is corrected. 2) To keep the register of members up to date, we occasionally delete accounts that have not been used for more than three years. If their owners were group adminis…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The Insert media function in the blog editor works again . From now on embedded video and audio files can even be played without Flash Player . (Please note that the maximum blog length is about 60,000 characters. This corresponds to about 40 manuscript standard pages. Longer articles should be subdivided - also with respect to reader-friendliness.) 2) The image processing with PicMonkey also works again . The temporary failure was a…