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It all started when Matt Mullenweg (the co-founder of WordPress) went to Japan in 2009. While there the Japanese WordPress community asked him if they could create a mascot. Matt said yes as long as it was GPL licensed and designed by an illustrator who understands the open source community. The community asked Kazuko Kaneuchi<\/a>, who had experience in creating the Japanese NetBeans mascot, Neko-bean<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n