Keyword: transition

[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…

In his Chronicles of England , Richard Grafton wrote, “Thirty days hath November…” Yet, thirty days is sufficient time for this transitional month to bring one from one season into another. November is the elegant bridge that leads from autumn to winter. As one walks across that bridge, autumn’s brilliant colors fade. The sun’s golden rays offer memories of fall’s disappearing warmth, but the days grow ever shorter. Delicate ice crystals from morning frost sometimes glazes the way ahead.…

As I had noted in my previous blog entry , I traveled to China earlier this month. I spent a little more than two weeks there. The trip was both remarkable and enriching. Beijing provides a kind of sketch that illustrates the extraordinary progress China has made in its economic development in recent decades. The expansive city is filled with testaments to that progress. Sprawling commercial districts can be found around its historic and political centers. The city's subway lines have been g…

The calendar has now moved into October. Canadians will soon be celebrating Thanksgiving Day and Americans Columbus Day. Leaves have turned across Ontario, Quebec, parts of Upstate New York and across northern New England. Farther south, some yellows and reds can already be glimpsed, but the best of autumn’s annual fireworks show still lies ahead. Some have already begun to pick pumpkins. Children’s dreams of an abundant bounty of Halloween candy are moving closer to fruition, though far slo…

Depuis près de 30 ans, de nombreuses communautés ont développé ce qu’on appelle les monnaies sociales. On en compte aujourd’hui près de 5000 dans le monde. Elles désignent un ensemble de dispositifs d’échange de biens, de services ou de savoirs organisés par et pour de petites communautés au moyen d’une organisation monétaire ad-hoc, une monnaie propre à une communauté. En d’autres mots, il s’agit d’échanger sans argent conventionnel mais avec une monnaie propre à la communauté. Cr…