{"id":1187,"date":"2015-08-18T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.slc.wordcamp.org\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2015-08-14T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T04:16:10","slug":"meet-wapuutah-the-wordcamp-slc-wapuu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/meet-wapuutah-the-wordcamp-slc-wapuu\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Wapuutah, the WordCamp SLC Wapuu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2015.slc.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/08\/wapuutah_holding_a_classic_canteen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1188\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.slc.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/08\/wapuutah_holding_a_classic_canteen.png\" alt=\"wapuutah_holding_a_classic_canteen\" width=\"348\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/08\/wapuutah_holding_a_classic_canteen.png 348w, https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/08\/wapuutah_holding_a_classic_canteen-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/08\/wapuutah_holding_a_classic_canteen-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This cute little guy is Wapuutah, the WCSLC Wapuu. <em>What&#8217;s a Wapuu?<\/em> Well, legend has it\u00a0that one day, when\u00a0WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg visited Japan in 2009, the Japanese\u00a0WordPress community asked him if they could design a\u00a0WordPress mascot. After all, Drupal has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drupal.org\/druplicon\">droplet guy<\/a>, PHP has an <a href=\"http:\/\/php.net\/elephpant.php\">elephant<\/a>, Github has the <a href=\"https:\/\/octodex.github.com\/\">Octocat<\/a>, but\u00a0WordPress&#8230;well, we just had a <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/about\/logos\/\">big W<\/a>. Matt said,\u00a0<em>sure, so long as it&#8217;s GPL and is\u00a0designed by someone who understands\u00a0the open source community<\/em>. Some time later, Wapuu was born, designed by Japanese illustrator\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cgfm.jp\/mutsuki\/\">Kazuko Kaneuchi<\/a>\u00a0(who had previously designed the NetBeans mascot <a href=\"http:\/\/nekobean.net\/\">Neko-Bean<\/a>) and made his (or her) first appearance at WordCamp\u00a0Fukuoka in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Wapuus have come in many shapes and sizes, with WordCamps adopting the cute, furry critter and adding some local color specific to their WordCamp. You can browse through a gallery of past Wapuus on the <a href=\"http:\/\/jawordpressorg.github.io\/wapuu\/\">Wapuu Archive<\/a> page (my personal favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/jawordpressorg.github.io\/wapuu\/wapuu-archive\/scott-wapuu.png\">Wapuunk<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2015\/\">WordCamp London<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>For WordCamp SLC, our little Wapuu takes the\u00a0<em>camp<\/em> part of WordCamp literally, and is decked out with everything she needs for a trek through our\u00a0beautiful mountains visible from the site of WordCamp SLC 2015. Wapuutah was designed by Velda Christensen &#8212; you can follow her on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/supernovia\">@supernovia<\/a> and, when she&#8217;s not Engineering Happiness at <a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/about\/\">Automattic<\/a>, she occasionally blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/legendofvelda.com\/\">LegendOfVelda.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cute little guy is Wapuutah, the WCSLC Wapuu. What&#8217;s a Wapuu? Well, legend has it\u00a0that one day, when\u00a0WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg visited Japan in 2009, the Japanese\u00a0WordPress community asked him if they could design a\u00a0WordPress mascot. After all, Drupal has the droplet guy, PHP has an elephant, Github has the Octocat, but\u00a0WordPress&#8230;well, we just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/meet-wapuutah-the-wordcamp-slc-wapuu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet Wapuutah, the WordCamp SLC Wapuu<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130752,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v4P-j9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}