A soft-spoken Filipina in her early twenties was recently named project leader of one of many open source community projects run by the Apache Software Foundation.

Maria Odea "Deng" Ching, 25, became the first Filipino vice president and project management committee chairperson of the Apache Archiva Project of the foundation, a non-profit organization that supports numerous open source projects around the world.

In an interview, Ching said she is also one of two women members of the Apache Archiva Project project management committee, which is composed of 15 members.

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