Learning from the journey of popular open-source project cURL by it's author Daniel
cURL is installed on almost every computer device(4b+) on the earth today. Learn how it rose from nothing to this huge success directly from it's author, Daniel. Daniel has been programming & contributing to open source since 1985.
This talk was recorded during Git Commit Show 2019.
01:30 Talk starts
31:40 Q&A starts
34:32 Challenges of new open source project today
36:16 How to contribute to existing open source projects
40:25 Latest developments in web protocols - http
43:08 How much time in adoption of HTTP3
🎬 This talk was recorded during Masterclass session at Git Commit Show 2019
❤️ Some facts about the speaker
Daniel started programming in 1985
He started cURL in 1996(#OpenSource term was not even coined back then)
cURL now has 2000 contributors
Daniel has invested 15000+ hrs into cURL project with 16000 commits
📖 Topics covered in talk
How and why curl started
What being an open source maintainer looks like
Challenges of open source projects
How to contribute to open source
Latest developments in web protocol, http
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