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Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) World Photography Day - August 19th, 2023. Will your photo be out of this world? Get your cameras ready! Our annual World Photography Day celebration is happening soon. Remember that contributions will need to be taken on August 19th. More details will be posted in a news article about a week before the event. 2) Online kindness. iperni…

[EN] As a small community, ipernity does not have a budget for commercial advertising, but at least has the chance to be presented positively on Google and other relevant websites. You can help to increase the relevance there by rating ipernity with 5 stars and writing a few nice words about it. Thank you very much! Your ima team You can choose from (please click on):…

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.) Sometimes when we ask our members to submit photos for the ipernity homepage, they answer: "I don't know it at all. I've been a member of ipernity for many years and never visit the homepage." Or: "I'm not interested in our…

Dear Full Club Members of ipernity, The IGA 2023 will take place on Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 6pm CET. Please check your clock for the correct time in your country. Your time zone ============================================================ We encourage all full club members to attend. ▶️ Follow this link to the sign up procedure . The verification of your identity is only necessary, if you are participating for the first time. Otherwise, we only require an email to im…

Mireille Marignac-Vinais ← publicly active Thomas Lamp ← publicly active Didier Foulard Katrina Anto Michael Thon ← publicly active ------------------------------- Rajeev Khana Lucus Oliver Wiener Tarockcup ← publicly active Christoph Blau ← publicly active Cristian Cernat Maria Rainer-Giotto ← publicly active Mark Balsiger Beat Loosli

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, As the year is ending we are grateful for all the time, energy and kindness you give to our photographic community. Your loyalty and dedication warms our hearts. Thank you so much for being part of ipernity. This year we would like to inv…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Winter is here. Yesterday was the meteorological beginning of winter. We have updated the homepage pictures accordingly. We thank all those who contributed with pictures, as well as those who helped with the selection. You can browse the picture collection, which also contains many new photos, in this album , but also as a slide show on YouTube . 2) Take your camera to snap fresh winter pictures. If you feel the desire to show winter…

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 in the g…

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) Summertime is here, and the pictures on our homepage have been updated to the Summer Collection 2022 . Many thanks to the club members who have contributed to this collection. 2) The pictures can also be viewed as a YouTube Slide…

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.)…

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 club members, dear friends, In 2017, when I was asked by William Sutherland and Lutz Petersen to help save ipernity from shipwreck, I had just turned 65. I felt too young and energetic for a tranquil retirement. So I went for it, knowing well that it would be a challenging venture full of uncertainties because no one on the founding team was a qualified IT professional. But volunteering for a worthwhile non-profit project appealed to me, and as a passionate mountaineer I was used to hand…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! For the final realization of the Basic subscription and the Trial subscription (see: summary of subscription options ), it was necessary to adjust the existing booking and payment processes accordingly. All these options are now fully implemented, tested and active . The following applies: 1) A new subscription can only be booked by holders of a Guest account. 2) First of all, only the 3-month free Trial Standard subscription can…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) A few days ago, ipernity was exposed to a massive attack by Russian spam bots, who managed to overcome the Google Captcha authentication. Despite immediate countermeasures, some intruders managed to open accounts from which iper mails with links to pornographic content were sent to members. But at no time was any personal data or private contents compromised by this bot attack . Please delete any messages delivered to your personal address wi…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The number of new club accounts created in the first 8 months of 2019, now +74, already exceeds the total number of new club accounts created in 2018 (+62). The number of active club accounts even increased by +82 from 1,298 to 1,380 since the beginning of the year. This makes us very optimistic. 2) In addition, members of the VIEW Fotocommunity are currently interested in finding a new home for their photo hobby due to the closure of…

[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, 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! 1) Based on a member initiative the articles in the English and German Wikipedia have been updated to reflect the new status of ipernity. A Dutch version is currently being prepared. In order to update the articles in other languages such as French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish but also Esperanto and others we kindly ask for your help and to raise your hand. We would also be grateful, if we could find a volunteer, who will coordinate all Wiki…

[EN] Hello to you all, What is going on in ipernity ? We are patiently waiting for IMA to makes their proposal. Once it will be set, the negotiations will get started. They have officially registered the association to the French office. They are waiting for the paper to come back. If you do not have seen it yet, they published their Bylaws : ipernityma.wixsite.com/ipernityma/bylaws (English) ipernityma.wixsite.com/ipernityma/copy-of-bylaws (French) ipernityma.wixsite.c…

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