you too could have made curl - Daniel Stenberg at FOSDEM 2024

Daniel has taken the curl project to run in some 20 billion installations. 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 25 years of leading the curl project.

[@LonelyDissonance]

Great talk. Was fantastic and motivating to hear your experiences.

[@SianaGearz]

Ah curl, the famous Spotify and Instagram hacking ring. Wonderful.

[@xCheddarB0b42x]

Thank you for showing that security data at 11:15 and being open and honest about vulns creeping in. Mistakes will happen.

[@spt025]

Veryvery big fan of @Daniel.

[@memir0]

the mic is terrible

[@Tim_Small]

Audio seemed problematic all over FOSDEM this year unfortunately...

[@AK-vx4dy]

Daniel you shoud definitely take a fee, not on using curl but for using your name in license agreements :D

[@higaski]

It's a shame that a defective microphone ruins the whole talk. You'd think a conference about some of the most advanced pieces of software would manage to organize a working micro... but well.

[@Time4Technology]

My experience with watching uploads of conference talks online, is that any kind of computer related conference usually suffers from technical issues.

[@priapushk996]

I don't think you understand what "ruins" means.

[@robervaldo4633]

the audio could be much better, but it certainly did not ruin the talk

[@robervaldo4633]

one of the best talks i've seen on opensource in general, thanks