Here is a Palmela 2011 update wrapping up the current situation on March 1, 2011.

Conference Attendees:

This summer Palmela, Portugal, will become the world capital of panoramic photography. It is going to be amazing!

Dear members

We would like to invite you to our next members meeting. It takes place
online on

Wednesday January 26, 2011 from 9pm UTC to 11pm UTC

We will also broadcast the meeting online. You can find a full list of
times across the world at http://bit.ly/eKTZuo to get the
corresponding time for your time zone.

On the agenda for this meeting are the following topics:

• Welcome
• Introduction of the IVRPA board of directors and the officers of IVRPA
• What the IVRPA did in 2010
• Continuing projects

Dear members

We would like to invite you to our next members meeting. It takes place
online on

Wednesday January 26, 2011 from 9pm UTC to 11pm UTC

We will also broadcast the meeting online. You can find a full list of
times across the world at http://bit.ly/eKTZuo to get the
corresponding time for your time zone.

You will receive a reminder with the detailed agenda a few days before the
meeting, including further technical instructions how to join the meeting
online.

We welcome your input, suggestions, and comments and how you feel the

This year 4 seats of the IVRPA board of directors will be up for election.
Starting immediately IVRPA will begin accepting candidate statements from
IVRPA members who wish to serve on the 2011 board.

Check the members-only forum at http://ivrpa.org/forum/members for candidate
statements.

Nominations will be accepted from November 13th, 2010 (Saturday), until
November 30, 2010 (Tuesday) on the IVRPA members forum at

Voting for the Board will commence online December 1st, 2010 (Wednesday) and
end December 19th, 2010 24.00 UTC (Sunday). The candidates who receive the

Dear members

We would like to invite you to our next members meeting. It takes place
online on

Wednesday November 10, 2010 from 9pm UTC to 11pm UTC

We will also broadcast the meeting online. You can find a full list of
times across the world at http://tinyurl.com/32vjuck to get the
corresponding
time for your time zone.

On the agenda for this meeting are the following topics:

• Introduction of the members of the board of directors and officers
• Tucson 2010 session movies now available online!
• Looking back at Photokina 2010

We have been receiving a steady stream of inquiries about the dates for next year conference to take place in Portugal.
To make it easy for everyone to plan their vacations and trips for next year, we can announce that final dates for the conference will be June 1-5, 2011.

If you plan to attend the conference, you should plan to arrive in Lisbon at least the day before the conference starts, that is May 31, 2011.

We are currently hard at work crunching the conference website that will be available in a matter of days here:

http://www.palmela2011.com/

The IVRPA Annual Panoramic Photography Contest – 2010 was closed on September 3rd and for our judges it was not easy to score all the entries in each of the four categories.

• Panoramic Print entry
• Gigapixel Panorama entry
• VR Panorama entry
• Interactive Computer Graphics Featuring VR Panoramas entry

It all started with a surprise and it ended with a big surprise. But first things first.

Dear members,

Photokina 2010 just started today and will go on until Sunday. If you don't have the chance to come to Photokina in Cologne, you can join us at our booth through our live webcast. To access the webcast, just go to http://www.livestream.com/ivrpaphotokina

More images and panoramas from our presence at Photokina will follow soon...

Greetings from Cologne!

Last call for the Early Bird offer

If you want to join us at the VR Photography Live @ Photokina conference day you need to go to our website now, to register at our reduced fee.

http://photokina10.ivrpa.org/registration

After September 16 you have to pay 25 euro more to be in the very exiting and interesting 1-day conference to be informed about the latest developments.
We have some very important speakers who have news and information to share with you.