Yeah, I think all these other things around the project that isn’t code also makes it fun… I mean, some of the oldest other contributors or maintainers in the project - they’ve been around for… I think the oldest guy has been a little over 15 years now. So some of those are really my old friends by now, so setting up a little conference to me over a weekend and just talk curl for a weekend - I can’t think of much other things that are more fun to do in a weekend… So that’s just awesome.

And of course, making – one thing about becoming more known, and things like getting awards and prizes makes people get your eyes open and see us in a slightly different light or angle… Suddenly, people approach us with money, or ideas, and they can print stickers for us, and hand them over, or they can borrow us their conference rooms for a weekend, or stuff like that. So stuff also gets easier when you become known, or people realize the impact and people get friendly… We get friends all over, so that is fun.

So of course, I like curl and I like working with it, and of course I then try to sort of bring up those fun moments, like celebrating 20 years of curl, or now we have 32,000 questions on Stack Overflow, or now we have 1,700 contributors in the Thanks file, and stuff like that. I wanna help out the other contributors and everyone, to make sure that they feel appreciated, and that we all appreciate what they do… I think it’s fun.

It also goes back to this constant question… I say, “Yeah, I’ve been working with curl for 20 years”, and then they’re like “Well, I used it 10 years ago, and it worked exactly the same. What have you been doing?” [laughter]