It is the statue for the Duke's Choice Award prize that NetBeans won a few years ago.
That is a prize for top projects around Java technology. It trys to be an "inclusive" prize, given to the "project", so, any developer in the project can say they received a Duke's Choice Award. The idea is that if we take it to conferences, then all Netbeans developers can take a picture and "receive" the award. It is a pretty nice statue, but heavy, so, I commend the courage of people to carry it around :-D Cheers, Bruno. ______________________________________________________________________ Bruno Peres Ferreira de Souza Brazil's JavaMan https://java.mn bruno at javaman.com.br https://code4.life bruno at code4.life if I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 10:45 AM Eric Bresie <[email protected]> wrote: > Silly question, what is the “Duke Trophy”? Is it A trophy for Java in > general with Netbeans winning that year(s) or specific to excellence in > Netbeans? > > Was trying to find any information on Trophy and found a few mentions > (1),(2) but wasn’t sure beyond that > > References: > (1) https://blogs.apache.org/netbeans/entry/duke-s-choice-award-2018 > (2) > > https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2018/11/duke-joins-the-idrsolutions-java-team/ > > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 10:14 AM Kenneth Fogel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Back in January 2020 Mark Stephen brought the NetBeans Duke Trophy to > > Montreal. The plan was for me to take it to the next conference, such as > > CodeOne in Oct 2020 and pass it on to another member of the team. As we > all > > too aware, this could not happen. > > > > JavaOne is back and I will be speaking there in person. Made the flight > > and hotel reservation yesterday. I will bring Duke with me as carry on. > The > > x-ray should be fun. Now all that needs to be decided is who should I > pass > > it on to. > > > > I suggest forming a committee that meets weekly to decide on this weighty > > topic. 😊 > > > > Ken > > > > -- > Eric Bresie > [email protected] >
