Dear all, Taxonomists are generally hard to come together and interact. But we are here as a united group, no, as a family. Interacting frankly, correcting each others without touching the softer side of others. If somethings unknowingly hurt others that come up and we discuss and forget or neutralize those things. Even in smooth running homes there are problems and who ever handle those without pressure and smoothly will run home peacefully. The best things I observed here is that there is no hardcore taxonomy (but at the end of the day we are serious about reaching the correct id) but all of us are plant lovers who want to know plants with its respective identity. Not only identity, but also the facts, importance and stories behind plants also come up. This is really great. If there is a mistake happens (even from experts) that get corrected by someone or others within no short period of time whoever who notice the same. let us expand the umbrella where we gather together and experience the wonderful world of plants all around India. As Gurcharan ji pointed out, the quality and details of photographs are also very nice. We could learn many tips for taking good photographs by experts in the group. A special mention of Pankaj for this case. Even with mobile camera people are taking quality pictures. I too experienced that the increased number of participation and learning since I joined the group. This was high during 2011, I think, compare to other years (based on statistics available in home page). I was away from plant identification since 2006 and this again had given me a wonderful platform to learn more plants and keep my plant identification skills alive with great interest.
Thanks and Regards, Giby On 29 December 2011 18:30, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I was unfortunate in joining late, I had joined in November 2010 only, > therefore I have no scale to compare the performance of the year. Yet one > thing is clear in my mind that majority of members are contributing quality > materials, and this forum is encouraging lot more enthusiastic workers to > come and contribute their bit. The cause is noble and beyond valuation, > this group should continue to rise new levels every passing day. This is > truly a great knowledge sharing portal and I have personally benefited a > lot from the interactions. > This is beyond doubt that the quality as well as number of the posts in > the coming days will be unprecedented. Let's hope this group rises to > highest peaks in the coming year. I wish a good health and great time to > the greatest contributors, who are pillars of the group. > > MY THANKS TO ALL FOR BEING SO EDUCATIVE, SELFLESS AND AFFECTIONATE. > > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 > > -- GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Jakkur Post, Srirampura Bangalore- 560064 India Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby
