Thanks very much, Garg ji, Pankaj and Rawat ji for all the nice words. It was some time back that one of mt FB contact Vinaya Raj V R, who suggested me that I make my collection copyright-free - his suggestion was convincing - that it would prove very helpful to our flora community.
Changing the license to creative commons was a time-consuming task. But now its done, and images in future would continue to be CC-SA licensed. Pankaj, many thanks for the beautiful lines ! Thanks Rawat ji, for the nice words ! Thanks, Lalithamba ji ! Regards. Dinesh On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:26 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Lalithamba Avadhanam <alalitha...@gmail.com> > Date: 22 September 2016 at 13:17 > Subject: Re: [itpmods:10040] Fwd: Sh. Dinesh Valke releases more than > 20000 plant photos to Wikimedia Commons > To: itpm...@googlegroups.com > > > Congratulations Dinesh ji for the spectacular achievement > A.Lalithamba > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:40 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> >> Date: 22 September 2016 at 10:28 >> Subject: Sh. Dinesh Valke releases more than 20000 plant photos to >> Wikimedia Commons >> To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >> Cc: Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> >> >> >> Dear members, >> Came across this post by V R Vinayaraj at Facebook. >> Sharing with you for your information pl. >> "We know Sri. Dinesh Valke is an ardent nature lover. He has been taking >> photos of plants for the last 12 years. Once he finds the correct >> identification he uploads it to Flickr. He is on a mission to find out the >> local name of the species in various languages. A continuous effort >> spanning all these years. As we know Flickr is a private company owned by >> Yahoo. It can decide the fate of images stored in its servers. Due to >> license restrictions nobody would be saving it to other places. Now Sri. >> Valke ji has decided that all his life long efforts are not a thing to be >> decided by a company's policy in the US. He has changed the licenses and >> ALL his plant photos, more than 20000, and ALL of them are now available at >> Wikimedia Commons which will eventually be used in Wikipedia articles in >> around 300 languages. Since Wikipedia is free anyone can download and store >> the images which means scores of Universities and Scholars will be storing >> them, in effect they are safe and nothing can destroy them. >> V R Vinayaraj " >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> 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- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). >> >> 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. >> >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> 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- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). >> >> 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. >> >> 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 >> "ITPmods" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to itpmods+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to itpm...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/itpmods. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ITPmods" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to itpmods+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to itpm...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/itpmods. > > 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> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > 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- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). > > 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). 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