Vowww !!! Thank you. Kishen
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Folks, Butterflies of India website (http://ifoundbutterflies.org) has > caught up to March 2010! That was the first time when the server that hosted > BOI website crashed. Since then, we had not really completely recovered from > the crash because we had lost the template, and all the articles and species > pages at that time. Mihir Chhatre had to recreate the template and most of > the basic structure, and we were still tweaking those things in early June > 2010. Then a few viruses hit the website in late June, eventually forcing a > complete shutdown of website development. > > In the third week of January 2011, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah and I started > looking into all the problems that had dogged the website for many months. > In the past three weeks, we think we have sorted out most, if not all the > issues that had affected the website. We have improved security and > stability of the website (backend stuff), and made some other changes on the > website that has strengthened functionality and user-friendliness (frontend > stuff). Ullasa is continuing to work on this front. Overall, I think the > website is in a better shape than ever before, and that things should run > smoothly from now on. > > In the past three weeks, I have recreated all the species pages that were > online before March 2010. The species page count stands at 135 species pages > right now. This number includes a few new species pages that we did not have > last year, such as that for the Common Lascar (*Pantoporia hordonia*). > > Now that things are more or less in order, the real development beyond the > “March 2010 version” will start. We hope to reach at least 300 species pages > by the end of this year. These should include many fantastic early stages > that Balakrishnan Valappil, Saji Kandoth, Hemant Ogale, Milind Bhakare and > others have photographed and shared with us on this group recently. The 2011 > target of 300 species pages may actually be an easy one. We already have > dozens of pictures of NE Indian butterflies submitted by Amol Patwardhan, > Arjun Basu Roy, Balakrishnan and Kishen Das. The Media Management Team will > hopefully snap into action soon and format these images. We would also like > Gaurav Agavekar, Abhijna Desai, Rudra Prasad Das, Yuawaraj Gurjar, Vedawati > Padwal, Blaise Periera, Satyendra Kumar Tiwari and others who have > contributed many pictures to the website in the past to continue to do so, > perhaps with a vastly renewed enthusiasm. > > Looking forward to good time! > > Krushnamegh. > ------------------------------------------------- > > Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD > > Post-doctoral Research Fellow > FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University > 52 Oxford St., Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 > Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. > > Ph: (617) 496-0078, Cell: (512) 577-1370, Fax: (617) 495-2196 > Email: [email protected] > Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] > > Personal website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm > Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ > Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh > > > -- Enjoy
