Thanks, Krushnamegh ji. Sorry, for being late in reply. I have a few queries as per your mail, which possibly you can help me understand. The recurring theme in your mail appears to be *better web platform *& *user-friendly structure*. Would you pl. clarify these vis a vis our site: Efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/home> giving example of sites having better web platform & user-friendly structure ?
On 3 November 2017 at 14:19, Krushnamegh Kunte < krushnam...@ifoundbutterflies.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am writing in connection with the eFlora India and Flowers of India > websites that you have been running very succesfully for so many years. I > occasionally look at these websites, and I have been in touch with J. M. > Garg over the years for butterflies and plants. I have known Srikant > Ingalhalikar from my early days in Pune. I recently chatted with Navendu > Page and Sarika Baidya as well (all copied here), and I thought I should > make contact with a few prominent group members to see whether there is any > interest in developing a joint website on Indian plants. > > You have developed an impressive community and a large number of images on > these two websites. I see that these groups are quite vibrant. However, > these websites need better organization, user-friendly structure, and a few > other technical things that are critical for developing a good web > resource. Have you considered tying up with India Biodiversity Portal or a > similar project that can offer you a web platform that will do justice to > this community's efforts and to Indian plants? There are also websites on > Indian butterflies, reptiles, etc., developed by the Indian Foundation for > Butterflies (and now also supported by NCBS) that offer a good platform for > taxon-specific websites. I am sure that Prabhakar, who spearheads the India > Biodiversity Portal project, will be very happy to serve the plant > community through IBP. I can introduce you to Prabhakar (if you do not know > him personally already) if you wish. If you want to develop a separate > Plants of India website, then our group at NCBS can also help you with the > platform that we have built. > > Whatever course you choose, I do believe that you need to develop or adopt > a better web platform to serve the botanist community in India. I think the > butterfly, odonate, reptile, etc., communities have benefitted considerably > with the taxon-specific websites. I hope that you will consider taking up > the plants of India as a more serious web platform. As a naturalist (I also > did BSc Botany), I will like to see a very nice and user-friendly website > on flowering plants of India, from which I can learn a lot. > > Let me know what you think. > > Best regards, > > Krushnamegh. > ------------------------------------------------- > > Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD > > Reader (Assistant Professor) > National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) > Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) > GKVK campus, Bellary Road, > Bengaluru 560065, India. > Ph: +91 80 2366-6085 (office), -6086 (lab), +91 9483-525-925 (mobile) > Email: krushnam...@ncbs.res.in, krushnam...@biodiversitylab.org > Lab websites: http://biodiversitylab.org/, http://www.ncbs.res.in/ > krushnamegh/home > > NCBS Museum and Field Stations Facility: https://www.ncbs.res.in/ > research-facilities/museum-fieldstations > > Member, IUCN/Species Survival Commission South Asian Invertebrate > Specialist Group (2013-2016) > > Indian Foundation for Butterflies, and Butterflies of India website: > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ > Email: krushnam...@ifoundbutterflies.org > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. 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 2800 members & 2,65,000 messages on 31.3.17) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 12,000 species & 2,50,000 images). 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. 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
