Thanks, Vijay ji. Congrats on completing 9 years for this group. Alothough it has done great work in the past, I think the main drawback for this group at this point of time is getting the Id confirmation or feedback. I think this is the basic requirement which have to be met first to meet the aspiration of so many members. No post should go unattended without Id confirmation. Database on the lines of Efloraofindia Database (which can be downloaded & used by anybody in the world from home page at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix) can serve a great purpose.
On 6 October 2010 08:38, Vijay Barve <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > I still can't believe that we are nine years old. The discussions with > Krushnamegh, Aravind and Soubadra are still fresh in my mind about starting > a group for Butterfly lovers. We said we have 10-12 people in mind, but may > be we will find more. The group wa created in October 2001. And today we > stand 1200 strong. > > Happy Birthday ButterflyIndia !!! > > I suggest now we need to take some time and introspect a bit. What all have > we achieved in last nine years and were we, as a group really useful ? > Please do share your thoughts and experiences on this. It will be useful to > hear, where we helped and where we failed too. If you are reluctant of > discussing failures in the group, do send me personally, because that is > more important for us for improvements. > > What I feel is, this is the time now we need get more serious in the way we > do things on group, and direct our efforts to contribute to something > constructive. I do not mean to change anything in the group, specially how > it communicates. What I want to suggest is let us do something together in a > little way which will have some long term impact. > > One of the ideas I have in mind is to build a occurrence database. We all > watch butterflies or regular basic, and many of us keep notes of that. What > if we all just put these notes together in a some systematic way, it will > generate a huge database covering most of the species sen inindia and most > parts of India too. > > There could be more interesting ideas with you all, please share them and > let us start working on those in this coming year. > > Do share your thoughts and ideas. > > Cheers !!! > > Vijay > > -- > --- > Vijay Vasant Barve > http://diversityindia.org/ > --- > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1400 members & 49,500 messages on 5/10/10 & with a database of around 4050 species) -- Enjoy
