Pankaj, it is the efloraofindia *site* that turns 5 years old. The main group was born on 18 JUN 2007.
Regards. Dinesh On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > I am confused.... I thought we are much older than 5 years !! :( > > > On Monday, 2 November 2015 09:28:51 UTC+8, D.S Rawat wrote: > >> It was a great futuristic vision of Dinesh ji who created the efloraofindia >> site <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> which became >> operative 5 years back on 2nd November 2010, where all the posted >> messages and images by members of efloraofindia google e-group are being >> compiled and managed. It has really been a marathon effort of compiling all >> the posts in eFI site. Since then this site has seen many changes for >> presenting information in a user friendly manner with greater accuracy >> while also maintaining all the posts in the database. It could be possible >> only due to Google group called “Indiantreepixs” (created on 18th June >> 2007), which was later renamed as efloraofindia. The group discusses >> plants, fungi, ferns etc. and has a following of a large number of members >> and has accumulated a huge wealth of information on Indian plants. >> >> Today, eFI is the largest systematically arranged collection of images of >> plants of India. More than 2,00,000 images of more than 11,000 species >> uploaded by 2,500+ members from all parts of India makes it the largest >> collection from India available on net. Soon all the species’ pages will be >> having images for easy identification >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/indiantreepix/dx_ihgI9y1M>. >> And this treasure is ‘freely available to all’ without any advertisements, >> which is the best part of eFI. >> >> It is the time to feel proud for this great endeavour. It is also the >> time to salute the selfless contributions of The Pillars >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/pillars-of-efloraofindia>, >> Subject 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> >> and other members of efloraofindia google e-group >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/indiantreepix>. And it is >> also the time to strengthen our determination to showcase all the plant >> species of India on the canvas of eFI. >> >> Progress of the group till June 2015 is depicted in the attached word >> document: >> >> >> Dr D.S.Rawat >> Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & >> Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, 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/d/optout. > -- 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

