Thanks, Lalithamba ji, You along with Aarti ji and Ushadi have kept our flag flying, with your indomitable spirits.
On Tue 19 Jun, 2018, 6:45 PM J.M. Garg, <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Lalithamba Avadhanam <alalitha...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue 19 Jun, 2018, 5:45 PM > Subject: Re: [itpmods:11947] Fwd: Efloraofindia completes 10 years on > 17.6.18 > To: <itpm...@googlegroups.com> > > > Congrats to J.M.Garg ji and all other members for their dedicated spirit > and work in making this useful compilations. > A.Lalithamba > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:17 PM J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> >> Date: 19 June 2018 at 17:17 >> Subject: Efloraofindia completes 10 years on 17.6.18 >> To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >> >> >> Dear members, >> We have completed 11 years on 17.6.18 with more enthusiasm and hard work >> by inserting more than 50,000 images in last one year. We have not only >> added images on species pages, but also used them for comparative purposes at >> genera & family pages of around 55 families, along with corrections >> of wrongly identified posts and identifications of unidentified posts in >> these families, in last one year. >> New species continue to be added unabatedly including a lot from >> ornamental plants. We seek more and more participation and postings of new >> plants from all concerned. >> >> I repeat what we said on completion of 10 years: >> "Dear members, >> It is really difficult to describe the long journey of 10 years of >> Efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/home> in a >> few paragraphs. It had all emotions of a pot boiler like joy, pain, >> satisfaction etc. It started with a commitment to do something for the >> society in as little a way as possible. As the movement grew, so did the >> ideas to do something more. Lot of them got concretised during this long >> journey. As everybody put their heads together, we did lot of things >> unheard of before. Ours was a unique journey with no precedents. Naturally, >> it carried all the thrills with it, as are associated with any first time >> adventure. It showed what can be achieved even without a single penny being >> spent or any one even meeting physically. It was a movement of thousands of >> people coming together from diverse backgrounds and places, just like small >> streams ultimately forming the sea. Result has been documentation of 12,000 >> species with more than 2,50,000 images due to the efforts of our 2800 >> members & others experts from outside. >> And our commitment has not diminished, but only growing. Future is more >> challenging than the past was. Let us all re-dedicate ourselves on this >> occasion for building of the efloraofindia." >> >> Our sincere thanks to The Pillars >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/pillars-of-efloraofindia>, >> Subject/ Area Experts >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/subject-experts>, >> Moderators >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/moderators>, Major >> contributors >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/major-contributors> & >> other members who are rendering selfless service on the group & made this >> endeavour possible for the benefit of everyone. >> -- >> 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 2975 members & 2,90,000 messages on 31.3.18) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 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'. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 2975 members & 2,90,000 messages on 31.3.18) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 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 >> "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 https://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 > "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 https://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. 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