Congrats and best wishes to Garg ji and all members of eFI.
Regards Vijayasankar ------------------------------------------------------------------- Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:17 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear members, > It gives me great pleasure to say that eFI has completed 7 years on > 17/6/14. > From its humble beginning we are reaching one milestone after another in > this uncharted territory. Efi site > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/home> has really become a > force to reckon with, in its new format > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/combretaceae/terminalia/terminalia-bellirica> > , colour scheme > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/colour-scheme-formatting>, new > genera pages > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/Ubjh1TqbsoM>, > availability > of keys > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/19vRcGjOPKY>, > additional > inf. from cc-by sources > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/an6aZN4T_BY>, use > of efi in scientific publications > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/819inw30Ng4> etc. & > it appeared in top 10 searches for thousands of species in India search. > > This year was particularly the most important with addition of most of the > species found in India on genera pages, which we expect to complete by > 31.12.14. > > In this 7th year we have been able to expand our website > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/home> with more than 9500 > species, as we shared our valuable time & energy for our passion & thus > bringing Indian Flora closer to the masses & demystifying it. Today we have > more than 2350 members (compared to 2100 till the end of 6th year) with > great many experts & more than 191000 (compared to 157000 till the end of > 6th year) messages. > > Thanks for The Pillars > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/pillars-of-efloraofindia>, > Moderators > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/moderators>, Major > contributors > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/major-contributors> & > all others for this great work. > > I hope we continue our good work in coming years to remain as the foremost > forum & website for discussion & documentation of Indian Flora. > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- around 2350 members & 1,90,000 messages on 31/5/14) or > Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> > (with a species database of more than 9500 species & 1,90,000 images). Winner > of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ITPmods" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to itpmods+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to itpm...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/itpmods. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.