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'''SouJava''' is a [[Brazil]]ian [[Java User Group]] created to promote the [[Java (programming language)|Java programming language]] and other Open Source initiatives.<ref name="SouJava">{{cite web

|url = http://soujava.org.br/sobre/

|title = Sobre SouJava

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|publisher=SouJava

|language=Portuguese}}</ref> It's recognized as the world's largest [[Java User Group]]<ref name="Simon">{{cite web

|url = https://weblogs.java.net/blog/webmink/archive/2005/04/brazil_the_glob.html

|title = Brazil - the Global Java Leader?

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== History ==

[[Brazil]]ian [[Java User Group]] '''SouJava''' was founded in September 1999<ref>{{cite web

|url = http://javaman.com.br/jugs/

|title = Java User's Groups no Brasil

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|quote=Agora, o SouJava, oficialmente a Associação de Usuários da Tecnologia Java, foi em 2004 o primeiro grupo de usuários Java do país a se tornar uma ONG}}</ref> upon reaching almost 18,000 members and got recognized as the world's largest Java User Group.<ref name="Simon" />

In 2011, '''SouJava''' became the first [[Java User Group]] nominated for the [[Java Community Process]] Executive Committee,<ref name="ownaward">{{cite web

|url = https://jcp.org/en/press/news/awards/2011award_nominees

|title = JCP Program and Industry Awards

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|publisher= InternetNews

|quote = Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz admitted today that it was Brazil that forced Sun to open source Java.

}}</ref> It's also the co-creator, together with London Java User Group, of "Adopt a JSR" program, an effort to encourage [[Java User Group|JUG]] members and the wider Java community to get involved in [[Java Community Process|JSRs]]<ref>{{cite web

|url = https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/adopt_a_jsr

|title = Adopt A JSR!