Dear all, Efi site will be completing 5 years on 4.11.15. Now the question is how to move ahead in the present circumstances ? Earlier we were handicapped in our website due to non-insertion of images. But things have recently dramatically changed as we are able to insert images in our website pages. And it has been working fine.
As everybody knows, pictures are our biggest assets as far as efloraofindia e-group & site is concerned as we have more than 2 lakh images. If we put 3 to 5 images on every page, we can have around 50,000 pictures being depicted on our website pages. We have plenty of work going on like new postings, monthly fortnights, identification of unidentified posts, resurfacing of posts, putting every post at efi site, making of genera pages (where still lot of work has to be done as I have missed earlier deadline of 31.12.14 & now it seems it will require many more years), adding information from CC by sources at our website along with its proper formatting etc. along with insertion of images. A few members have come forward for insertion of images which will truly show our potential. However, this appears to be quite slow. I am not able to take up this activity due to engagement in so many other activities for which no body has come forward in a substantial way. Summing up, there is a substantial interest from everybody in efi e-group activities, but not much as far as efi site (which has now become our biggest asset) is concerned even though it will be completing five years very shortly. My question is can we divert some of our resources from efi group work to efi site work. Will it be the right direction ? Are members willing here to join me in efi site work including insertion of images (at least their own images, to start with). Everybody's views & feedback is requested. -- 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- more than 2500 members & 2,25,000 messages on 18.6.15) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,00,000 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 "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
