Eflora of India (eFI) has reached 2,00,000 messages and 10,000 species!

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Vijayasankar

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Sep 9, 2014, 9:29:18 AM9/9/14
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Dear all,


Congratulations!


I am much excited to let you know that our group has achieved yet another milestone by reaching a record number of  2,00,000 messages.


The total number of species documented and discussed in this group has also crossed 10,000 species, which is about 50% of the India's flowering plant wealth. The database currently holds more than 2,00,000 images, probably the largest digital collection of Indian plants on the web. This once again reiterates that eFlora of India is one of the largest and most active forums of this kind in the world, dedicated to plants of India.


The major strength of the eFI family is its 2,400 members- team that has made this landmark growth possible.


Just to compare, in September 2010, the group only had 1,400 members and had posted 50,000 messages covering 4,050 species. What a phenomenal growth in this short period of time! 


On behalf of eFI, I take this opportunity to thank and congratulate all the active contributors, experts, pillars, moderators, and all the members of eFI family on this collective accomplishment.

Here is a glance on the journey of eFI during the last five years...


Sincerely,

Vijayasankar
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University of Mississippi, USA

Gurcharan Singh

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Sep 9, 2014, 10:27:53 AM9/9/14
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Thanks Vijayasankar ji for information. Congrats all members for contributing in this great achievement.

Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
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Nidhan Singh

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Sep 9, 2014, 10:57:36 AM9/9/14
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Thanks Vijayasankar Ji for this beautiful graphical presentation..we are progressing in every way..congrats to every member !!!`
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D.S Rawat

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Sep 9, 2014, 12:50:51 PM9/9/14
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A very important mile stone crossed. The journey is long and we together will cross many more. 
Thanks to every one for his/ her share of contribution to develop this database.
DSRawat Pantnagar

Giby Kuriakose

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Sep 9, 2014, 1:47:56 PM9/9/14
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Great news. An important step for Flora of India.
Keep going....
I hope the pace and the volume of information would go up in the coming days.


Thanks and Regards,
Giby



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Dr Santhosh Kumar

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Sep 9, 2014, 11:35:57 PM9/9/14
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Really inspiring news for botanists and plant lovers alike. Thanks for all the contributors..Keep going.

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J.M. Garg

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Sep 10, 2014, 12:08:23 AM9/10/14
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Thanks, Vijayasankar ji,
It has really been a long & fruitful journey.
I request all the members & moderators to spread this word among other groups/ forums/ facebook etc. with intimation to us, so that more similar minded persons can join us so that we reach destination. 
 
 

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Dinesh Valke

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Sep 10, 2014, 12:33:32 AM9/10/14
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Thanks Vijayasankar ji for the news and facts.
Thanks Garg ji for fantastic group.
Thanks to everyone. Kudos to all. It is heartening to know that our group is progressing in full swing.
Hearty congratulations to everyone in the group, and thanks to all for making this happen.
Regards.
Dinesh

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Pankaj Kumar

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Sep 10, 2014, 12:43:34 AM9/10/14
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This is really a big achievement and thanks to all the active members and moderators of eflora.
This is just too great to believe :)
But I know its true.
Thanks Vijay for the statistics.
Pankaj

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Dr. Badri Narayanan T

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Sep 10, 2014, 1:58:15 AM9/10/14
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Congratulations to all.
Very much indepted to all for the huge resources available and for the readily given botanical advice.
Feel should take it further with an ecological and horticultural perspective ,stressing the need for native species  in all walks of life so that native insects and birds thrive.
For example, in most formal gardens , you find mostly Duranta repens as the herbaceous border. Why don't horticulturists modify any of our native shrubs like, say Glycosmis and make it suitable for the borders.
My humble suggestion.
Regards,
Badri

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Santhan P

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Sep 10, 2014, 9:34:54 AM9/10/14
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Very nice, congratulations to the efforts of efloragroup
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Aarti S. Khale

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Sep 11, 2014, 3:01:32 AM9/11/14
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Hearty Congratulations to our Eflora family!
Aarti

Satish Phadke

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Sep 29, 2014, 1:26:20 PM9/29/14
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Well done!

Dr Satish Phadke

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Sourav Mahmud

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Sep 29, 2014, 2:17:49 PM9/29/14
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Great Achievements !!  Congrats to all with this 

Ushadi Micromini

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Sep 29, 2014, 2:43:05 PM9/29/14
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Wonderful news,
I only got to this message today.

Old news by internet stds, so we must have grown a little further since Vijay wrote this msg .

Congratulations to all those who worked hard and relentlessly, esp Gargji


Usha di
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greenearth

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May 15, 2015, 9:49:37 AM5/15/15
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EFI has reached 10,000 species : Would it not be wonderful if  the best part of the  EFI  collections of images could  be   presented through Image charts. ? 

 I have put up a Sample Web Page Here   .  Please take a look..

 It uses Google tools which can   make this work  as easy as using Windows Office.

 This idea was mooted earlier on EFI , for Phyllanthaceae , by Vijaysankar-ji and Dinesh-ji.  It's being done in different ways :   plantsystematics.org  has an organized family-genus hierarchy, and  treesindia.indiabiodiversity.org  has a alphabetical index under  which species belonging to all families are presented.  Both of these would require considerable effort to develop, and probably the work may be better out-sourced.

By contrast the  flowersofindia  site uses easier approach and concentrates on  one species per page to present its very wide collections.

Doing it will definitely take some effort.   If we have teams of volunteers, some   having familiarity with common computer apps such as spreadsheets, editing etc,  and some   with a little  more experience on creating  web pages. : By parcelling the collections into groups of genera, and taking only the most unique, representative images for a given species the work load should be manageable.

 Together we can make it work.

regards

ASinha

 Following a post on EFI is often the beginning of a new journey

Ushadi Micromini

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May 15, 2015, 7:18:48 PM5/15/15
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looks good
i particularly liked
looks similar but a different genus section

this will take an enormous amount of dedicated man hours/months/years

univ hawaii has some similar pages 
 they have students  and dedicated illustration dpts

usha di




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J.M. Garg

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May 16, 2015, 12:03:20 AM5/16/15
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A reply:
"Simply amazing! Congratulations to all...
G S Rawat, WII Dehradun."
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For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia website (with a species database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia

J.M. Garg

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May 20, 2015, 7:25:12 AM5/20/15
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Thanks, Sinha ji.
Yeah, it should be possible if somebody takes the initiative.

On 15 May 2015 at 19:19, greenearth <sinha...@gmail.com> wrote:

Satish Phadke

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May 21, 2015, 12:34:30 PM5/21/15
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Excellent Sinha ji
If we can dedicate a genus per week the task would be easy

Dr Satish Phadke

A.Sinha

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May 30, 2015, 6:31:44 AM5/30/15
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Dear All.
Thanks for the replies.

I can imagine the tremendous effort it takes to maintain the compilations of the forum postings, as well as the associated web-site.  No single person can afford or commit to this proposed project single-handed.  

In terms of work-hours, as Ushadi mentioend , I think each genus,  with about say 20 species could take 2 to 3 work-hours to compile ( the links, captions) and put up .   
So Satish-ji's 1 genus per week,( per volunteer) is fine.  

If we target 500 genera, selecting the best represented on EFI to start with,  with 10 volunteers it could be done in 12 months.  Of course this is not just a time-work problem, but  to have an idea if it is do-able.

The most important criteria before starting out, is a positive conviction from the community and especially the pillars of the community  ::   That the "visual dimension" will add to the appeal and ease of use of the EFI website, both for identification and appreciation of Indian plant diversity.

I request Garg-ji to re-surface this thread under its own subject-line .

regards
ASinha





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