Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> The main URL, www.imp.org, was hosted on a Windows-based server by Tom
> Galvin (the one who started with the whole IMP idea). That URL disappeared
> a few months ago, and we haven't contacted Tom back; although he was on
> povray.off-topic last month.

Oops, premature posting. I wanted to press Enter twice (new paragraph), not
Ctrl-Enter (send) :P

There is also http://impfarm.imp.org/ which is hosted on a Linux-based
server by Andy Read. There were plans to allow multiple administrators, to
avoid the problem we had in the past: the one and only admin going MIA for
a whole year (health issues on Tom's family IIRC). There was an update to
the client code, the server code was released, and a few admin pages were
made to send render jobs and stuff.

Then the project just kinda died. There's a few people I haven't talked to
since then (like houz, who worked quite a bit on the client dev. IIRC). And
even a few that apparently were already gone by the time I discovered
IMP... (I'm looking at the IMP forums on archive.org).

Having multiple admins doesn't really help if there were a total of five
people still remotely interested in IMP, and none actually working on a
collaborative POV-Ray movie; which is what IMP is about.

The IMPfarm server CGI is still running (on the new-ish Linux server). It
has been repeating "no jobs to render" for a few years. Poor script. I have
access to logs, and it looks like there are people still running the
client. I bet even that Perl script is sad about how IMP disappeared.

To be honest, I think the POV-Ray newsgroup activity has lowered as well,
compared to previous years...

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