The UP Parser is the official student publication of the Department of Computer Science. I served as Associate Editor and Business Manager for two years, during its rebirth.
Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign
Tasks: content writing, content editing, newspaper layout, graphics
The layout process was tedious and took at least three of us (with Layout Head Tweety, Literary Editor Jael) to finish each time. But we had a stellar cast and pool of resources, from writing to graphics to other creative juices, and thus we weren’t struggling to find something to put on paper.
I’ll say it again: I’ve never found a better pool of talent for running a newspaper. Who would’ve thought computer scientists could do more than code? We did.
We simply needed to find money to print the paper and to put everything together. Believe me, the first of the two wasn’t easy.
Web
Tools: Adobe Photoshop, HTML, CSS
CMS Used: Ardee’s, Mambo, WordPress
Tasks: website design, article uploading
Online Issues
June-August 2005 Issue (WordPress)
February-March 2006 Issue (WordPress)
The Parser Blog (Blogger)
Anecdotes
Here’s the back story: The CS Reps (Carlos, Mike, Chicco, Ponch) planned to revive Parser as part of their plan for their term. Carlos met to-be-appointed EIC Phillip and me to throw ideas around; they didn’t have funds for Parser and the best we could come up with was posting wall news and email newsletters.
We talked to then-Dept. Chair Dr. Tuñgol and asked for help; he said that the best he could do was provide the Department’s photocopier for 120 copies of a booklet-size Parser per issue. And it began. The staffer hunt, the contributions hunt, the production hunt. But it didn’t stop there: after three “cute” little issues we printed on yellow paper and had folded in front of the Eng’g Admin Office, we released Parser Bigtime, our first big issue. From then on we released tabloid size issues—colored ones, even.
During that time, we’ve been busy not only with finding funds to print the paper, but also with distributing the news in other forms (web, wall news, email newsletter). We’ve also spearheaded several projects and have been active in the UP CS Network, the Alliance of Computer Science Students. (I was a representative to the Network for Parser.)
More stories about Parser from Phillip’s Campus Journ page.
[...] It’s barely been a year since we’ve stepped out of the Department, so it should still be relatively comfortable coming home. I can’t believe that just last year we were in a frenzy of events, from music video making (tara na, CS tayo!) to geeking out to newspaper publishing to partying and to excelling over and over again. [...]
[...] They segregated the online and offline design tools! But the Design Standard edition seems more attractive because it contains the heart of Adobe’s product line: Photoshop and Illustrator. Add InDesign, successor of PageMaker and indispensable tool during my Parser newspaper publishing days, and I’ll feel invincible from then on. [...]