Thanks, Vijayasankar ji, You have been the pioneer of the idea of creating efloraofindia and if I remember correctly it was your idea for renaming our group to efloraofindia. You remain the foremost expert from south India on efi. On 2 Nov 2015 21:21, "Vijayasankar" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Congratulations to Garg ji, Dinesh ji for creating the eFI sites! > The effort involved in creating and updating the database is unimaginable, > kudos to Garg ji for having done it single-handedly! > The website is constantly evolving, and I am sure that it will still get > better in the future, and will serve as a great source of information on > Indian plants. > Thanks to all members of the eFI family for collectively enriching the > database with numerous quality pictures and data. > > Vijay > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. > Research Scientist > National Center for Natural Products Research > University of Mississippi, MS, USA > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:05 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, Pankaj ji, >> You have been an inspiration through out all these years not only to me >> but to all of us. >> And I see you always take out your time for Orchids. >> >> On 2 November 2015 at 14:53, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Happy Birthday to eflora of India and special thanks to the members >>> especially to Garg sir and Gurcharan sir and many others without whom this >>> wouldnt have been possible. >>> I always make excuse that I have lot of work, but obviously Garg sir too >>> has lot of work, but I imagine how he finds time for checking all mails. >>> Its really very selfless which gives us immense knowledge about Indian >>> plants. >>> 10,000 species is not small and it is I assume already above 50% of the >>> total angiospermic flora of India. >>> Special thanks also to subject experts and moderators without whom many >>> of the plants might have remained unidentified. >>> Congratulations and best of luck for future... >>> Pankaj >>> >>> >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> 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. >> >> 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- more than 2500 members & 2,25,000 messages on 18.6.15) or >> Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of >> Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> 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/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. 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