Thanks, Singh ji, I think under your leadership members will certainly be able to further improve upon themselves.
On 1 January 2012 10:44, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear members > Year 2011 has been unique in the five year history of efloraofindia: the > membership shot up to 1775, 1 lac target of posts was ahcieved, year 2011 > itself seeing 6000 mails in a month being achieved and total mails posted > during the year slightly less than combined 4 previous years. There has > also been quality uploads by our veterans and new members equally, we saw > new family episodes attracting large participation. The group managers also > introduced new ways to honour performers in various categories. Above all > efforts of all have helped in building an excellent working relationship > where every one enjoys interactions and any abberations are gracefully > checked. Let us work together to make 2011 much more enjoyable and bring > further progress in the group. Let us all resolve to: > > 1. Work for maintaining the excellent atmosphere where every one enjoys to > interact. > 2. Contribute some new uploads to our database. > 3. Contribute some photographs during family weeks (here I have special > request for a few members who have got hundreds of their plants identified > through this group, but > hesitate to share these in monthly weeks in spite of frequent > requests. Sorry to write this but we should utilize occasions provided to > us to repay what we have achieved > from the group). > 4. Nominate a minimum of five uploads in each category (Best > photograph/Best set of Photographs) to show our appreciation for good > photographs. I think voting is a better > way of praising a good photograph as compared to praising through a > mail. > 5. Strive to upload plants with all essential details and upload > photographs which contain maximum information to help experts. > > Let us all work towards a model working e-Group, and set a goal for other > groups. > > HAPPY 2012 for all members and their families. > > > -- > 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. 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: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1760 members & 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.