Thursday
Room 1
09:00 - 10:00
(UTC+01)
Talk (60 min)
Three decades of curl
Curl is a ubiquitous Internet transfer engine. An Open Source client-side library for doing internet transfers specified as URLs.
Daniel has grown the project from a silly toy to an Internet infrastructure foundation that runs in some 30 billion installations - in thirty years.
He talks about what it takes to succeed with Open Source: patience, time, ups and downs, cooperation, fighting your impostor syndrome - all while having fun. There's no genius or magic trick behind successful open source. You can do it. The talk will of course be spiced up with anecdotes, experiences and stories from Daniel's life long mission of leading the curl project.
Daniel Stenberg
Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish Internet protocol expert and developer who has participated in and worked with Open Source for thirty years. Perhaps most known for being the founder and lead developer of the curl project, one of the world's most widely used software components. He participates in protocol development within the IETF and has authored books on curl, Open Source, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and is a frequent public speaker. Daniel is the president of the European Open Source Academy and a two times gold medal receiver for his Open Source work. Employed by wolfSSL.