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FOTW Official Flag

image by António Martins, 2 August 2005

The FOTW Official Flag was chosen by the members of FOTW mailing list among eleven proposals. It was drawn by Mark Sensen who describes it as follows:

White on the hoist stands for peace, blue on the fly for progress. The six colours of the stars are the main colours used in flags. The stars help to make one bigger symbol. The way the stars are all connected to each other represents the Internet.

The flag was created on 11 November 1995, and adopted on 8 March 1996.

See also:

History of FOTW
Vertical hanging of FOTW flag
The FOTW burgee
FOTW officers' flags
Yugoslav newspaper article about FOTW
the "pentagon"
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Designer Mark Sensen displaying his FOTW flag, August 1999.

Photographed by Bruce Berry in Amsterdam.

The other proposals for FOTW flag were:

Here is the text of the announcement by Giuseppe Bottasini on 8 March 1996:

I am happy to announce that "habemus vexillum" ! Here are the results of the vote for the Official FOTW Flag:

Proposal                                        rate
No. 3 Sensen's "Six stars"                       163
No. 7 Exner's "WWW"                              142
No. 4 Heimer and Sensen's "Six stars per bend"   137
No. 8 Exner's "WWW night and day"                135
No.10 Bottasini's "Net and FOTW soyombo"         133
No. 1 Justice's "Circle and arrows"              119
No. 2 Heimer's "Tinctures and metals"            105
No. 5 Dignan's "Infinite regression"             105
No.11 Fruhlinger's "Golden sun"                   78
No. 6 Engene's "Mice"                             72
No. 9 Ormaetxea's "Vexilos"                       70

Therefore the Official FOTW Flag is "SIX STARS" by Mark Sensen.

Vertical hanging of FOTW flag

by Mark Sensen

The FOTW flag follows the general rule that the upper hoist keeps its place as explained elsewhere on this site.
Mark Sensen, 5 July 2001

FOTW Official Flag

Vertical hanging of FOTW flag

FOTW Burgee