During the awarding of PSIA Honor Award

Speaking infront of PSIA members about Case Study on IP

Making the news in the IT field these past few days is a Filipina named Ma. Odea “Deng” Ching. She made a big feat by being elected as the Vice President of Archiva, a community based Open Source project of the Apache Software Foundation. Deng, as she is fondly called is a Developer at Exist Global, a company founded by Filipino IT Venture Capitalist and Serial Entrepreneur Winston Damarillo.

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Reading this article got me teary eyed. Another touching life story of a Filipina.

Analiza Yape worked her way through high school and college by working as a maid. An orphan since Grade 6, she did not reason out this status in life to stop dreaming and believing. All she wanted was for her and her siblings to finish college and have a better life. She saw problems in life as challenges and opportunities.. she never quitted and focused on her goal instead.
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This is my answer to the call of promoting Filipina to the World Wide Web. I get to answer a lot of queries why I am proud of being a Filipino, and I ask them back, why would I not be proud to be one? I guess this is the effect of the best and worst traits we, Filipinos have… and it is to talk and talk and talk and talk, even if some of the topics are not worth sharing.. we do share it and love to flaunt stuff to others.. even if they are already negative ones. Maybe we just don’t care how other people from other nations would think about us and it also keeps depression at bay knowing that another person knows our misery.. thus Filipinos have a low suicidal rate but have a higher rate on the number of rallies, hey we even invented People power remember?

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