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From: Lalithamba Avadhanam <alalitha...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue 19 Jun, 2018, 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [itpmods:11947] Fwd: Efloraofindia completes 10 years on
17.6.18
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Congrats to J.M.Garg ji and all other members for their dedicated spirit
and work in making this useful compilations.
A.Lalithamba

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:17 PM J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com>
> Date: 19 June 2018 at 17:17
> Subject: Efloraofindia completes 10 years on 17.6.18
> To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Dear members,
> We have completed 11 years on 17.6.18 with more enthusiasm and hard work
> by inserting more than 50,000 images in last one year. We have not only
> added images on species pages, but also used them for comparative purposes at
> genera & family pages of around 55 families, along with corrections
> of wrongly identified posts and identifications of unidentified posts in
> these families, in last one year.
> New species continue to be added unabatedly including a lot from
> ornamental plants. We seek more and more participation and postings of new
> plants from all concerned.
>
> I repeat what we said on completion of 10 years:
> "Dear members,
> It is really difficult to describe the long journey of 10 years of
> Efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/home> in a few
> paragraphs. It had all emotions of a pot boiler like joy, pain, satisfaction
> etc. It started with a commitment to do something for the society in as
> little a way as possible. As the movement grew, so did the ideas to do
> something more. Lot of them got concretised during this long journey. As
> everybody put their heads together, we did lot of things unheard of before.
> Ours was a unique journey with no precedents. Naturally, it carried all the
> thrills with it, as are associated with any first time adventure. It showed
> what can be achieved even without a single penny being spent or any one
> even meeting physically. It was a movement of thousands of people coming
> together from diverse backgrounds and places, just like small streams
> ultimately forming the sea. Result has been documentation of 12,000 species
> with more than 2,50,000 images due to the efforts of our 2800 members &
> others experts from outside.
> And our commitment has not diminished, but only growing. Future is more
> challenging than the past was. Let us all re-dedicate ourselves on this
> occasion for building of the efloraofindia."
>
> Our sincere thanks to The Pillars
> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/pillars-of-efloraofindia>,
> Subject/ Area 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> &
> other members who are rendering selfless service on the group & made this
> endeavour possible for the benefit of everyone.
> --
> 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 2975 members & 2,90,000 messages on 31.3.18) or Efloraofindia
> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species
> database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 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 2975 members & 2,90,000 messages on 31.3.18) or Efloraofindia
> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species
> database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 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'.
>
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