Wir Kölner sind einfach Jeck und so ist es auch kein Wunder, dass auch der Wapuu in Köln gleich zum Immi wird mit Narrenkappe und Kölschbauch 😀
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, who had experience in creating the Japanese NetBeans mascot, Neko-bean.