nice collection.. regards susanth On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Kishen Das <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > 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
