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World Congress 2022 • Jun 14, 2022

The Snowball Effect of Open Source

Armin Ronacher

How did a simple attempt to port a bulletin board to Python birth the Flask framework? Discover how solving personal technical hurdles triggers a massive open-source snowball effect.

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