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== Our history == | == Our history == | ||
Opencaching.de | Opencaching.de was founded by Oliver Dietz. The first version went online in 2005. During the next years the website was improved step by step and got popular among German cachers. Just three years later the geocache number hit the 10.000 mark with over 200.000 online logs. | ||
A team was formed and Oliver got help with development, design, support and translation. Opencaching got multi-lingual and was extended to [http://www.opencaching.it opencaching.it] and [http://www.opencachingspain.es opencachingspain.es]. In 2006 the responsibility was transferred to the [http://www.wanderjugend.de Deutsche Wanderjugend], a German registered association. | |||
Server operation and web hosting was sponsored by the internet service provider schwarzwald.de. Hardware and domain registration was covered by donation of the geocaching community. | |||
After some years the original team members could not provide as much time anymore as they used to. The further development came to a halt. The community decided it was time to found a new team to carry on with the work at Opencaching. In 2012 they sent a call for help via email to all interested cachers to support "their" Geocaching website. | |||
As a result, 15 cachers founded the Opencaching Deutschland e.V. a few month later. The association Deutschen Wanderjugend tranferred the responsibility to the organisation Opencaching Deutschland e.V. New teams for data maintenance, support, server administration and development were formed. In August 2012 the further development was re-started. | |||
In April 2013, one years after the sucessful restart, the servers moved to a new internet service provider. | |||