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I believe I can fly ;-)

On and off over the last few months, I've witnessed and have been a part of a very informal distributed conversation about a logo or mascot for the JUGs community[ies]. A number of JUG-affiliated developers from around the world contributed their ideas.

Bruno Souza then told me about an idea that has existed in the brazilian community for close to ten years: The Java Finch.

Well, now it's official: the java.net JUGs community has just announced its new mascot: Juggy the Java Finch.

After a number of discussions and thoughts on the matter over a period of a few weeks, I've come to the conclusion that I could not think of a better choice, for many reasons.

The mascot has been donated to all Java User Groups under the Creative Commons License. I really hope we'll start to see JUGs around the world adopt it and create their own unique, localized versions of the mascot.

Comments

• I think every JUG can create their own Finch bird, :) and make JUG more colourfull. :) And I think we can use Gelatik (The Java Finch in Indonesia name), for global mascot.

  Will the future of Java will become Center of Finch rather than center of Tux.

  Posted by: fthamura on June 24, 2005 at 07:28 AM

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