Jurann

Jurann, also known as Ursa Polaris, Jurann Foxtail, Kandykoon, and as Jurann Kraken on Second Life, is a member of the furry fandom who lives in Santa Clara, California, USA.

Fandom involvement
Jurann joined the fandom early in 1995 via the YiffNet IRC. The name was computer-generated using a random fantasy name generator created by the player.

Jurann appeared on FurryMUCK, TigerMUCK, and Tapestries in early 1996. He has a Mucker bit on FurryMUCK and writes MUF programs. He built and maintains the Garden of Eden on FurryMUCK.

As webmaster and programmer, Jurann has created or been involved in several furry and furry-related projects, including FurCen.Org, Furry Grand Central, the Furry Database, FurBuy, FuroticaMUCK, and Freezing Furs. He contributed to the Fuzzball TinyMUCK server project. He was at one time the Assistant Admin of FurNation.

Convention staff roles
Jurann staffed ConiFur Northwest for five years as the Director of Internet and Gaming. He was slated to be the Art Show Director for RainFurrest 2007,. Jurann was replaced by Glen Wooten due to personal conflicts with the convention organization. .

Jurann was the Science Track 3rd at Further Confusion in 2011 and the Art Track Lead at Further Confusion 2013.

Fursona
Jurann's character started out as a fox. Jurann changed species to a Spotted Hyena in early 2000.

In September 2006 he changed species again, this time to a raccoon. On September 23, 2007, his character was redrawn by furry artist K'sharra as a polar bear, resulting in yet another species change. As listed on Fur Affinity, his species is "Ice Bear".

Fursuits
Jurann's first fursuit was created in 2005 by ToonSuits and has appeared at Midwest FurFest, Conifur Northwest, Anthrocon, Further Confusion and other furmeets and regional events.

In May 2010 Jurann purchased Korth's okapi fursuit made by Rose Quoll (body) and MixedCandy (head, paws, feet) and renamed the suit Twende. She is part of the Critters By The Bay mascot troupe in the California Bay Area, and has appeared in the Piedmont 2010 4th of July Parade and the San Jose 2010 Holiday Parade.

In July 2010 Jurann had a female Tauren fursuit named Jeemana completed by Komickrazi.

Convention attendance

 * Anthrocon
 * ConiFur Northwest
 * Further Confusion 2011
 * Midwest FurFest

Art bidding
In April 2007, K'sharra stated that Jurann "outbid a couple of people on" on her pieces in a convention art show "because he felt they would sell for higher at a different con. At the end of the con, he paid for the pieces and gave them back" to the artist, his mate K'sharra, "to sell elsewhere." .

The convention was All Fur Fun.

In a comment to K'sharra's post on Artists Beware, Jurann stated:

In a later post, Jurann clarified that:

He also later claimed that he only wanted to see them displayed in a larger art show as NFS, not re-sold. The attempt to resell the piece online was due in large part to a confusion of which pieces had and had not sold at the AFF auction, as Jurann explained in his LiveJournal:

FurBid-SF suspension
Jurann also placed bids in an online auction by K'sharra, under the account Kandykoon. His bids were made in an increasing pattern over the course of three days, and were followed by two bids by two different people, one of which won the item.

On April 15, Jurann was suspended from FurBid-SF by Ayukawataur for a period of at least six months. Ayukawataur noted that his bids:

She also stated that "all interested parties [...] refused to acknowledge any action they made could possibly be wrong, either in the eyes of others, in accordance with the terms of use, or with the law."

Jurann stated in his April 17 post:

Ayukawataur disagreed with this stance when she reviewed her records of his previous bidding strategies. She refused to comment publicly any further as to his usual bidding strategy. She cited the internal privacy policy as her reason for not explaining further.

Fur Affinity
In May 2011, Jurann's account on Fur Affinity was marked Suspended, with

In December 2012 Jurann posted to Fur Affinity "My account access has been restored, thank you Dragoneer for removing the suspension. I will try not to be a disruption to the community in the future."

As of early September 2013, the Fur Affinity account is again marked Suspended.