Many many happy returns of the day. Wow!!! Nine years is a nice time.... So many events, research papers, new discoveries ..... one of a kind group, am really proud to be associated to it although could not contribute much.
Kudos to all the Butterfly lovers who started this and even more for people who have continued and made this a successful endeavour. Few things if we could add up to our existing pipeline of events would be 1) Having events for school kids (tie ups with schools can help) 2) Coming up with a souvenier (or even start an annual booklet) in pdf form 3) Local butterfly meetings where all members can plan a local event. But...thanks a lot for everything!!!! All the best and wish your good luck for coming years... Happy butterflying..... On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:38 AM, 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/ > --- > > -- Enjoy
