Dear Bikram, Buljit and the 1600 volunteers of the Xobdo team, On 14th June 2008 the Assam Tribune under the title “1st English-Assamese online dictionary carried an article” and mentioned.
Quote: Xobdo, a non-profit organisation of volunteers spread across the globe, is inviting others to help develop what it calls the “World’s first and only English-Assamese online dictionary”. Even though the dictionary project (www.xobdo.net) is already on, the team behind it is dreaming big. There is an aim to make it an online access tool to as many languages of Northeast as possible in the near future. <http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jun1408/at08> http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jun1408/at08 Unquote: The volunteers came forward and joined hands with you. In five years time your dream came true. You contributed not only more than 35.000 words in Assamese but also many thousand words from other languages of the North East. Congratulations for a job well done! You and your friends are working silently and delivering the goods. The challenge which you and your XOBDO team have taken up - is contributing towards increasing contents and the net presence of Assamese and other languages from the north east. I am sure your group will surprise us in future with new initiatives. Not only the present generation, but also the future generation will be thankful to you for your contribution. To use the words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - A Psalm of Life - you are “leaving behind footprints on the sands of time; footprints, that perhaps another, sailing o'er life's solemn main, a forlorn and shipwrecked brother, seeing, shall take heart again”. The Assam Tribune of today carried an article on your 5th anniversary. Now we look forward to celebrate the 10th anniversary. http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=mar1311/city06 Wishing you all lots of success, Greetings and best wishes from the Netherlands, Wahid da From: northeastin...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:northeastin...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Buljit Buragohain Sent: 13 March 2011 01:48 To: assam@assamnet.org; assamonl...@yahoogroups.com; friendsofassa...@yahoogroups.com; northeastin...@yahoogroups.com; silc...@yahoogroups.com; axomiya_stude...@yahoogroups.com; assamsoci...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [NorthEastIndia] Xobdo online dictionary completes 5 yrs (The Assam Tribune, 13.03.2011) Xobdo online dictionary completes 5 yrs Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, March 12 – The multi-lingual and multi-media embedded, xobdo.org <http://xobdo.org/> , the online dictionary of the languages of the North-East completed five years of existence on Thursday. It needs to be mentioned here that xobdo is a group of people living across the globe to collectively do something good for the region. More than 1,600 volunteers are from different parts of the world are involved in this unique project. Apart from collecting 35000 Assamese words, it has also done fairly well in collection of Karbi, Dimasa, Mising, Meeteilon, Hindi and Bengali words. Efforts are on to attract volunteers to provide a constant addition of words in the other 23 languages adopted in the project. Apart from creating the online dictionary, xobdo is also involved in an ambitious project to digitise and archive many old and new Assamese texts in collaboration with www.xophura.org.xobdo.org <http://www.xophura.org.xobdo.org/> has also prepared course materials to teach Assamese to the children of the non-residents Assamese people living in different parts of the world. Using these materials two class room sessions are going on - one in Abu Dhabi, UAE and another in Bay Area of California. 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