I imagine what happened to other parts of this thread?? Pankaj
On Monday, 25 March 2013 15:47:04 UTC+8, Madhuri Pejaver wrote: > > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA > ------------------------------ > *From: * "Madhuri Pejaver" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > *Date: *Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:45:55 +0000 > *To: *Dr Pankaj Kumar<[email protected] <javascript:>>; Efloraindia< > [email protected] <javascript:>> > *ReplyTo: * [email protected] <javascript:> > *Cc: *J.M. Garg<[email protected] <javascript:>>; Dinesh Valke< > [email protected] <javascript:>>; Tabish > Qureshi<[email protected]<javascript:> > > > *Subject: *Re: [efloraofindia:149834] Re: Popularizing efloraofindia and > Flowers of India > > Really a good term. Can be used for more than 50% on eflora. They > contribute to a great extent by providing the photographs from all over > India, either taken the photos deliberately by scanning the areas or taken > at places where they visit or both. > In last 5 years I could see the plants all over the world without going > anywhere and our expert scientists could identify atleast 75% of them. > So long live citizen scientists and expert scientists. > Madhuri > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA > ------------------------------ > *From: * Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected] <javascript:>> > *Sender: * [email protected] <javascript:> > *Date: *Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:23:33 -0700 (PDT) > *To: *<[email protected] <javascript:>> > *Cc: *J.M. Garg<[email protected] <javascript:>>; Dinesh Valke< > [email protected] <javascript:>>; Tabish > Qureshi<[email protected]<javascript:> > > > *Subject: *[efloraofindia:149834] Re: Popularizing efloraofindia and > Flowers of India > > Respected Sir > I am indeed loving it. > This is really a good effort and hopefully we will soon be recognized more > for our efforts. Thanks a lot Gurcharan sir and also Balkar sir for > popularising the efloraofindia and ofcourse to Garg sir for initiating all > this. > Recently I came across a term during my meeting with the Chinese Nature > Herbarium guy. > "CITIZEN SCIENTISTS" : They use this term for people who are not trained > taxonomists but just have interest in taking pictures of plants and > animals, and they selflessly contribute their pics to the chinese nature > herbarium. > Long live eflora. > Pankaj > > > On Saturday, 23 March 2013 21:55:53 UTC+8, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >> >> Dear friends >> It is heartening to note that our forum and the websites of Flowers of >> India and efloraofindia are becoming more popular day by day due to new >> experts joining it and increasing its value and our dedicated team making >> every effort to reach out to teachers and students of botany and public in >> general. In my chapter "eFlora: the future of floristic documentation" in >> an edited book "Plant Taxonomy Past, Present and Future", 2012, I had >> devoted 4 full pages (included here as attachment) to efloraofindia, >> Flowers of India as well personal contributions by Garg ji, Dinesh ji and >> myself. Balkar ji is playing a great role in making it popular by >> representing the group at a recent conference, and again along with Nidhan >> ji holding a photographic exhibition at Panipat on 16th March, where >> efloraofindia was a big focus. >> Thankfully after coming back to India I had a chance to deliver >> lectures at a few colleges on the "Role of Digital photography, computers >> and internet" where I have made special efforts to attract students and >> teachers to join and contribute. I am happy to note that students have been >> very receptive of this new approach. Through online power-point >> presentation I showed them the websites and personal pages to make them >> more popular. >> I request other members also to devise methods to increase awareness >> about our groups to different communities of people. >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
