Last month was a very hectic, mind boggling and design eccentric-focus deliberation of a project that soon will be making history in the Philippines. It's a portal that will addresss the insufficient dessimination of educational information to our students, scholars, researchers and filipinist on the value of our history as a nation.
Conceived a year ago, Filipiniana.net was born in concept of passion and love of the country. It's the passion that drives its founder and publisher Gus Vibal to reinvent the model concept of publishing in the Philippines. The need of instant information at the comfort of individual's PC drives him to share his knowledge and vast collection of rare, unpublished and out-of-print books and images to the Filipino people. With this initiative, he will be pionering online publishing amongts his contemporaries in the publishing scene.
So, working with him is really the most challenging part of my corporate career. I have been in a creative field in half a decade and with only 3 years in IT experience, here I am challenging myself to put my little knowledge in practical application. Need help? Yes, I need help because of the high expectations from my highly techie boss. He was so updated that even social networking sites such as Friendster and MySpace is his favorite hang-ups:) He understand well the concept of Web 2.0 and he wants it to be our model structure.
After 8 months of research for the appropriate tools for this project, design revisions and tedious coding, finally it goes online last September 27, as the rage of typhoon "Milenyo" hits Metro Manila. We are at our office and still working on it while our publisher is in New York waiting for it since last month.
The site is still on its beta version and we're still building its contents. We have lots to improve especially its navigational search to our master database.
Working on it gives way for 25 year search of our publisher's patriotic and nationalistic endeavor. It defines his love for the country as he is driven with passion to bring back to the Filipinos the almost lost history of its people. They tend to be neglected nowadays and he wants to win it back thru this site.
His collections was a labor of love and with this initial endeavor, I may consider it as a philantrophic move were most of his contemporaries never imagine to do. Yes, we need funding, but through the help of their family's publishing business and others who believe to this patriotic endeavor, I am sure, this would be a history in the making. Mabuhay Filipiniana.net, Mabuhay ang Lahing Pinoy!
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