Dear members, Year 2013 was a great year for efloraofindia. A few more milestones achieved, as we see it, are given below: 1. Efi site <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/home> really became a force to reckon with, in its new format<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/combretaceae/terminalia/terminalia-bellirica> , colour scheme<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/colour-scheme-formatting> , new genera pages<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/Ubjh1TqbsoM> , availability of keys<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/19vRcGjOPKY>, additional inf. from cc-by sources<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/an6aZN4T_BY>, use of efi in scientific publications<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/819inw30Ng4>etc. & appeared in top 10 searches for thousands of species in India search. 2. Added net 180 members taking membership to more than 2200 members<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/8w_I-i-gEBo> & number of messages went up from 1,01,000 on 1.1.12 to 1,42,000 1.1.13 to 1,78,400 on 31.12.13 showing stability in the number of postings but with better inputs from experts & members. Messages reached around 6,000 in the month of Oct'13. 3. Quality of discussions, photographs & postings improved a lot. 4. Interactions were better managed & cordial with the help of Itpmodse-group. 5. Family weeks/ fortnights<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/monthly-family-weeks/2013> organised by Singh ji were a great draw contributing substantially to the database & Orchidaceae<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/x1UvBoj3J_I>& Euphorbiaceae<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/hbPdkoGXdVc> episodes were the best. Kudos to Pankaj ji, Tapas ji & Balakrishnan ji. Our special thanks to Manoj Chandran ji, Santosh ji, Balkar ji, Wojciech ji among others. Satish ji did a great job by compiling species posted in the family fortnights. We are already booked for quite some time with experts for family fortnights in 2014<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/monthly-family-weeks/2014>. Hope it's a new beginning for a good year. 6. Vijayasankar ji & Singh ji continued to guide us with maximum number of identifications among others like Rawat ji, Nidhan ji, Santhosh ji, Shrikant ji, Radha ji, Neil ji, Prabhu ji etc. Dinesh ji mesmerised us with his presentation skills & beautiful photography among others. I think Singh jiremained the leading poster during family weeks/ fortnights<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/monthly-family-weeks/2013>along with Aarti ji, Prashant ji, Dinesh ji, Nidhan ji among others. 7. Additional 1,500 new species added, taking the total to more than 9,000 species<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/general-eposts/general-efi-posts/about-efi-website/updation/34>to the efi database on Efi site <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/home>. 8. eFI man of the Month & Star of the family fortnight<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/general-eposts/general-efi-posts/monthly-famliy-weeks>continued to give credit & encouragement to the members. 9. Rawat ji & Alka ji were the star new comers of 2013 with around 1000 messages each, while Surajit ji continued to mesmerise us with his numerous intensive posts.
All credit goes to the Moderators<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/moderators>, The Pillars<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/pillars-of-efloraofindia>& other major contributors<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/major-contributors> . Wish to hear more from our members. I also wish all members of efi family a very-very happy new year 2014. -- With regards, J.M.Garg 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 (largest in the world): http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2200 members & 1,76,000 messages on 30/11/13) or Efloraofindia website: https ://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 9000 species & 1,80, 000 images). 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 email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
