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[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Exactly one year ago, on 23rd of February, 2017, the prefecture of Val-de-Marne issued the founding deed (as of 20.02.2017) to the ASSOCIATION DES MEMBRES D'IPERNITY. Since then, twelve busy months have passed, in which ipernity successfully has been rescued and the essential restructuring has been started. Without your support, that would not have been possible. We thank you for that. 2) Shortly after the takeover in September 2017, we had…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! Since the last newsflash on 26 January 2018 the topics of copyright and intellectual property policies have arisen. As a friendly reminder to all, based on Section 6 of the Terms of Service (TOS) , ima/ipernity honors copyright, trademark, and intellectual property protection requirements as stipulated under French law and other intellectual property laws. To avoid innocent mistakes or potential misunderstandings we ask that going for…

... and replaced by the photolayer of Google Maps. But most amazingly: The Panoramio Forum is still active, Google may have forgotten about it. groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!topic/panoramio-questions-support/dw3UYp1lQdY%5B351-375%5D Edit May, 24th, 2021: Still active, latest entry May 21st ! visit groups.google.com/d/msgid/panoramio-questions-support/8b653bed-41ec-4381-a02a-d43b9a3687cfn%40googlegroups.com .

Why a user owned and operated platform is probably the best organisation model for a social community both in terms of costs and privacy.

[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! 1) We are glad to announce that we managed to implement the new Terms of Use before end of 2017. For details see here: www.ipernity.com/about/tos 2) Further we assigned responsibilities within the ima team to fulfill the tasks more efficiently. These are: Acting Executive Board: CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and President: Eric Desjours, France COO (Chief Operating Officer) William Sutherland, USA CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Eric De…

[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 and friends of ipernity! 1) As you know, our community received ipernity "as it is". With regard to the database it unfortunately consists a lot of spam and abandoned accounts. Nevertheless we have made good progress in removing a lot of them. This removals have no impact on the excellent content of ipernity that you have contributed. 2) While we're at it we are analysing the whole database. This work is not yet finished, but the first evaluation is strengthening our c…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Meanwhile IMA has gained access to the ticket log for “Help & Contact” and going forward will address issues. Please understand that we cannot go backwards to past requests, but will do our best to help going forward now. Where there will not be instant answers please be patient. We will be doing our best to answer in a timely manner. 2) Weeks ago people have asked an option to allow free guest accounts for family and friends. We recently di…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Last week we encountered irregularities related to gift subscriptions and upgrades of ipernity users who never had been club members before. Both problems were resolved quickly. We are grateful for the help received from members and for the cooperation of Christophe Ruelle. 2) Our call for assistance yielded a pleasing resonance outcome, thanks for that as well. Depending on the urgency of the matter we will contact you individually. 3…

[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…

[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…

"Tornano tutti gli amici miei, noi non ci siamo lasciati mai, e sono qui dentro di me, tornano tutti gli amici miei." Mi è venuta in mente questa canzone di Roberto Vecchioni, al punto di canticchiarla tra me e me, per sottolineare la mia felicità nel rivedere non solo la mia vecchia gallery su Panoramio , ma anche, e soprattutto, i commenti alle foto. Andiamo con ordine: il merito è del mio caro amico Franco Benf che mi ha fornito il link per poter rivedere tutto questo. Il prog…

15.08.2017 : Man muss sich sputen mit der Terminplanung, auch wenn's noch 9 Monate hin ist. Rundherum schlagen schon wieder Termine für tolle Fototreffen ein. Hamburg findet natürlich 2018 auch wieder statt, alternativ am WE vor oder am WE nach dem 1 Mai (den man aber vielleicht auch noch einbauen kann). Programmideen gibt es schon, dazu werde ich mich in den kommenden Monaten mit Klaus und Volker beraten. Tragt euch vorsorglich schon mal ein, wenn ihr wieder dabei sein wollt. Den Doodle d…

=== EN === Fixed : 21-07 17:20 CEST Dear all, Amazon has decided without notice to block some services due to unpaid bills. We've contacted them and we hope everything will work normally very zoon. No medias were lost. Sorry for the inconvenience. === FR === Réglé : 21-07 17:20 CEST Amazon a coupé sans sommation l'accès à certains services en raison de factures impayées. Nous les avons contacté et tout devrait rentrer dans l'ordre très vite. Aucune photo/media n'est perdue. Veu…

Nachdem nun IP neue Eigentümer hat, wäre es dringend nötig, der Foto Welt zu zeigen, dass diese Plattform voller Leben, Dynamik und Energie steckt. Davon kann ich derzeit absolut nichts erkennen. Ich sehe nur Lethargie und Verzagtheit... Rafft Euch auf liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen und zeigt der Welt, wie aktiv wir sind. Ladet neue Bilder hoch und kommentiert sie. Versucht Freunde zum Beitritt zu gewinnen.... Wofür haben sonst seit Jahren gekämpft? Ab sofort bitte Action... Now that IP…

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Ja, ja, der Steinmeier hat den Stein der Weisen gefunden: „Wenn ein demokratisch gefestigtes Land wie Deutschland sich nicht mehr in der Lage sieht, internationale Gäste einzuladen, Konferenzen wie diese auszurichten, dann gerät mehr in Gefahr als nur eine einzelne Konferenz. Dann überlassen wir im Grunde genommen die Entscheidung und die Auswahl, was hier in Deutschland stattfindet, einigen wenigen brutalen Gewalttätern.“ Es gehöre auch demokratisches Selbstbewusstsein dazu, „dass wir sagen:…

I haven't been around for almost three months and several of you have asked whether I'm okay and whether I'm still active on Ipernity. Here's what's been happening. Back on March 22 I went in to emergency at the local hospital with what I thought and the doctors first thought was appendicitis. An abdominal drain was put in to drain off the expected infection with an appendectomy scheduled several weeks later. The abdominal drain, however, produced no signs of infection but rather a kind of…

UPDATE 22nd April William Sutherland Good evening, 22 April 2017: Three days ago Christophe, President and CEO of Ipernity S.A. sent notification that he accepted IMA's proposal and stated readiness to give IMA access codes to the team account, support tools, and moderation tools as well as posting an announcement of his acceptance. By the next day, he had changed his mind. I was hoping Christophe would have reconsidered by now so I could avoid making this announcement. Since h…