Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA -----Original Message----- From: "Madhuri Pejaver" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:45:55 To: Dr Pankaj Kumar<[email protected]>; Efloraindia<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Cc: J.M. Garg<[email protected]>; Dinesh Valke<[email protected]>; Tabish Qureshi<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:149834] Re: Popularizing efloraofindia and Flowers of India
Really a good term. Can be used for more than 50% on eflora. They contribute to a great extent by providing the photographs from all over India, either taken the photos deliberately by scanning the areas or taken at places where they visit or both. In last 5 years I could see the plants all over the world without going anywhere and our expert scientists could identify atleast 75% of them. So long live citizen scientists and expert scientists. Madhuri Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA -----Original Message----- From: Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:23:33 To: <[email protected]> Cc: J.M. Garg<[email protected]>; Dinesh Valke<[email protected]>; Tabish Qureshi<[email protected]> Subject: [efloraofindia:149834] Re: Popularizing efloraofindia and Flowers of India Respected Sir I am indeed loving it. This is really a good effort and hopefully we will soon be recognized more for our efforts. Thanks a lot Gurcharan sir and also Balkar sir for popularising the efloraofindia and ofcourse to Garg sir for initiating all this. Recently I came across a term during my meeting with the Chinese Nature Herbarium guy. "CITIZEN SCIENTISTS" : They use this term for people who are not trained taxonomists but just have interest in taking pictures of plants and animals, and they selflessly contribute their pics to the chinese nature herbarium. Long live eflora. Pankaj On Saturday, 23 March 2013 21:55:53 UTC+8, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > Dear friends > It is heartening to note that our forum and the websites of Flowers of > India and efloraofindia are becoming more popular day by day due to new > experts joining it and increasing its value and our dedicated team making > every effort to reach out to teachers and students of botany and public in > general. In my chapter "eFlora: the future of floristic documentation" in > an edited book "Plant Taxonomy Past, Present and Future", 2012, I had > devoted 4 full pages (included here as attachment) to efloraofindia, > Flowers of India as well personal contributions by Garg ji, Dinesh ji and > myself. Balkar ji is playing a great role in making it popular by > representing the group at a recent conference, and again along with Nidhan > ji holding a photographic exhibition at Panipat on 16th March, where > efloraofindia was a big focus. > Thankfully after coming back to India I had a chance to deliver > lectures at a few colleges on the "Role of Digital photography, computers > and internet" where I have made special efforts to attract students and > teachers to join and contribute. I am happy to note that students have been > very receptive of this new approach. Through online power-point > presentation I showed them the websites and personal pages to make them > more popular. > I request other members also to devise methods to increase awareness > about our groups to different communities of people. > > -- > 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > -- --- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- --- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
