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'''[http://www.opencaching.de Opencaching.de]''' and the co-hosted domains Opencaching.it, Opencachingspain.es and Opencaching.fr - '''hereafter "Opencaching websites"''' - belong to the world's most important Geocaching websites and are one of several Opencaching websites.
'''[http://www.opencaching.de Opencaching.de]''' and the co-hosted domains Opencaching.it and Opencachingspain.es - '''hereafter "Opencaching websites"''' - belong to the world's most important Geocaching websites and are one of several Opencaching websites.


The Opencaching websites are run, supported, maintained and permanently improved by a [http://www.opencaching.de/articles.php?page=team&locale=EN team of volunteers]. Furthermore, there is a community of tens of thousands cachers, who use the platform to hide and seek geocaches and support the project with donations.
The Opencaching websites are run, supported, maintained and permanently improved by a [http://www.opencaching.de/articles.php?page=team&locale=EN team of volunteers]. Furthermore, there is a community of tens of thousands cachers, who use the platform to hide and seek geocaches and support the project with donations.
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;<p class="ocp3">Geocaching with heart and mind!</p>
;<p class="ocp3">Geocaching with heart and mind!</p>
:There are no binding rules regarding hiding a geocache but most cachers prefer geocaches with a certain quality level. We want geocaching to be a pleasant experience. We favor geocaches which bring fun to geocaching, show places of interest, history, nature or a special hiding place.
:There are no binding rules regarding hiding a geocache but most cachers prefer geocaches with a higher quality level. We want geocaching to be a pleasant experience. We favor geocaches which bring fun to geocaching, show places of interest, history, nature or a special hiding place.


;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching is open and free of charge</p>
;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching is open and free of charge</p>
:Our geocaching websites' content is publicly accessible without registration or payment. The content is licensed under [[Data license|Creative Commons]]. The Opencaching software is "Open Source" and licensed under a [https://github.com/OpencachingDeutschland/oc-server3/blob/master/doc/license.txt GNU GPL license]. Most website features are usable without [[Registration]].
:Our geocaching websites' content is open to all users at no cost. Most website features are usable without a [[registration]]. Anyone can register and use the personalised services for free. The content is licensed under [[Data license|Creative Commons]]. The Opencaching software is "Open Source" and licensed under a [https://github.com/OpencachingDeutschland/oc-server3/blob/master/doc/license.txt GNU GPL license].  


;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching is non-commercial</p>
;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching is non-commercial</p>
:It is a fundamental principle of Opencaching, not to allow that others earn money out of your caches or logs. The "NC" = "Non-Commercial" part of the [[Data license|data license]] is ensuring that. The team members are all volunteers and do not gain benefit from their membership.
:It is a fundamental principle of Opencaching not to allow that others earn money out of your caches or logs. The "NC" = "Non-Commercial" part of the [[Data license|data license]] is ensuring that. The team members are all volunteers and do not gain benefit from their membership.


;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching is independent</p>
;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching is independent</p>
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;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching helps to protect nature</p>
;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching helps to protect nature</p>
:The Opencaching websites display an information if a geocache is located within a [[Nature protection areas|protected area]]. Cachers therefore know that they have to respect special regulations in the vicinity of the geocache. If a geocache is reported as in conflict with nature protection, the support team might archive a geocache after a case-by-case review.  
:The Opencaching websites display an information if a geocache is located within a [[Protected areas|protected area]]. Cachers therefore know that they have to respect special regulations in the vicinity of the geocache. If a geocache is reported as in conflict with nature protection, the support team might archive a geocache after a case-by-case review.  


;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching is open for new ideas</p>
;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching is open for new ideas</p>
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;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching is no competitive sports</p>
;<p class="ocp3">Opencaching is no competitive sports</p>
:Opencaching is about single caches not power trails. We do not wish to promote geocaching as an competition. Statistic shall not supersede quality. Therefore we do not provide sophisticated statistics. We prefer geocaches which are only listed at one of the Opencaching websites - so called '''OConly'''-geocaches.
:Opencaching is about single caches, not about power trails. We do not wish to promote geocaching as an competition. Statistic shall not supersede quality. Therefore we do not provide sophisticated statistics. We prefer geocaches which are only listed at one of the Opencaching websites - so called '''OConly'''-geocaches.


== Special Features ==
== Special Features ==
* The Opencaching websites provide a user-friendly editor to create and maintain geocache listings and log your finds. You do not need to learn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML HTML]. You can create several descriptions for your geocache - each in a different language. In this way you can support cachers with a foreign language.
* The Opencaching websites provide a user-friendly editor to create and maintain geocache listings and log your finds. You do not need to learn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML HTML]. You can create several descriptions for your geocache - each in a different language. In this way you can support cachers with a foreign language.


* Opencaching provides a powerful search page. You can narrow your search by difficulty, attributes, number of recommendations and many more options. You can even search through the geocache descriptions and log entries. You can also find many search option at the [http://www.opencaching.de/map2.php Opencaching map].
* Opencaching provides a powerful search page. You can narrow your search by difficulty, attributes, number of recommendations and many more options. You can even search through the geocache descriptions and log entries. You can also find many search options at the [http://www.opencaching.de/map2.php Opencaching map].


* The [http://www.opencaching.de/map2.php Opencaching map] displays additional waypoints and thumbnails to geocache listings.
* The [http://www.opencaching.de/map2.php Opencaching map] displays additional waypoints and thumbnails for geocache listings.


* You can publish a new geocache at a pre-defined date.
* You can publish a new geocache at a pre-defined date.
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===Join Opencaching Deutschland e.V.===
===Join Opencaching Deutschland e.V.===
;Become a sustaining member.  
;Become a sustaining member.  
:The minimum membership fee ist just 1 Euro per month. This might be the best way for supporters who can not work directly on open tasks but want support the Opencaching websites.<br>
:The minimum membership fee is just 1 Euro per month. This might be the best way for supporters who can not work directly on open tasks but want support the Opencaching websites.
;Become a full member.
;Become a full member.
:Contribute your time and work to support our goals. As a full member you automatically join the Opencaching.de team. Additionally you can become a sustaining member.
:Contribute your time and work to support our goals. As a full member you automatically join the Opencaching.de team. Additionally you can become a sustaining member.
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Support team members have to join the Opencaching team due to data protection and security regulations.
Support team members have to join the Opencaching team due to data protection and security regulations.


You can join our team as a developer. There are many good and interesting feature and change request who just wait to be implemented. The Opencaching software is based on PHP, Smarty, HTML/CSS, Javascript and MySQL code. We are using Apache server and MySQL server.
You can join our team as a developer. There are many good and interesting features and change requests who just wait to be implemented. The Opencaching software is based on PHP, Smarty, HTML/CSS, Javascript and MySQL code. We are using Apache server and MySQL server.


We are also looking for linux system administrators, and from time to time for 1st level supporters and second level supporters.
We are also looking for linux system administrators, and from time to time for 1st level supporters and second level supporters.
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*You can improve our database quality by seeking [http://oconly.de/?auswahl=1&nolog geocaches without logs for a long time].
*You can improve our database quality by seeking [http://oconly.de/?auswahl=1&nolog geocaches without logs for a long time].


*Be part of the [http://forum.opencaching.de Opencaching forum community]. Help newbies with their wirst steps, tell us your ideas or feature requests, tell us bugs you find on the platform.
*Be part of the [http://forum.opencaching.de Opencaching forum community]. Help newbies with their first steps, tell us your ideas or feature requests, tell us bugs you find on the platform.


*[http://www.opencaching.de/articles.php?page=donations Donate] to fund the operation and hosting of the Opencaching servers at our provider's data center. Even little donations help!
*[http://www.opencaching.de/articles.php?page=donations Donate] to fund the operation and hosting of the Opencaching servers at our provider's data center. Even little donations help!




Are you interested? Don't hesitate and contact our team at contact@opencaching.de
Are you interested? Don't hesitate and contact our team at kontakt@opencaching.de


== Our history ==
== Our history ==
Opencaching.de wurde 2005 von Oliver Dietz ins Leben gerufen und in den nachfolgenden Jahren stetig weiterentwickelt und ausgebaut. Die Website erreichte schnell eine große Bekanntheit in der deutschen Geocaching-Gemeinschaft und konnte schon nach drei Jahren rund 10.000 gelistete Geocaches und über 200.000 [[Das Onlinelog|Logs]] verzeichnen.
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 one year later the geocache number hit the 10.000 mark and over 500.000 online logs being available in 2010.
 
Es formte sich ein Team aus engagierten Geocachern, die bei Design und Entwicklung, beim Support oder bei Übersetzungen mithalfen. Die Website wurde mehrsprachig und um die Länderseiten [http://www.opencaching.it opencaching.it] und [http://www.opencachingspain.es opencachingspain.es] ergänzt. Die Betreiberschaft wurde im Januar 2006 auf die [http://www.wanderjugend.de Deutsche Wanderjugend] übertragen, um dem Projekt eine stabilere rechtliche Grundlage zu geben, vor allem in Hinblick auf Haftungsfragen, die sich beim Geocaching immer wieder ergeben.


Den technischen Betrieb organisierte und finanzierte der Webhoster schwarzwald.de; Kosten für Hardware und Domains wurden durch Spenden aus der Community getragen.
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.


; Neuaufstellung
Server operation and web hosting was sponsored by the internet service provider schwarzwald.de. Hardware and domain registration was covered by donations of the geocaching community.
Im Laufe der Zeit änderten sich die Interessen der bisherigen Mannschaft. Die Weiterentwicklung der Plattform stockte, und schließlich fiel die Entscheidung, aus der Opencaching-Community ein neues Betreiberteam zu rekrutieren. In einer Rundmail Anfang 2012 wurden alle interessierten Nutzer aufgerufen, „ihre“ Geocaching-Website selbst mitzugestalten.


Bereits wenige Monate später gründeten fünfzehn engagierte Cacher den [[Opencaching Deutschland e.V.]], der die Betreiberschaft von der Deutschen Wanderjugend übernahm. Neue [[Datenpflege]]-, [[Support]]-, [[Technik]]- und [[Entwicklung]]steams formierten sich, und im August 2012 wurde die Weiterentwicklung wiederaufgenommen.
After some years the original team members could not provide as much time anymore as they used to. The 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.


Im April 2013, ein Jahr nach Start des neuen Teams, wurde die Neuaufstellung mit dem Wechsel zu einem unabhängigen Webhoster abgeschlossen.
As a result, 15 cachers founded the Opencaching Deutschland e.V. a few month later. The association Deutschen Wanderjugend transferred 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 development was re-started.


In April 2013, one years after the successful restart, the servers were moved to a new internet service provider.


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