Getting curl developers and related enthusiasts into a single room to hang out in the real world for a whole weekend once a year is awesome.

We find inspiration, we share experiences, we learn from each other and we dream and plan of future endeavors and things to work on. Seeing faces, hearing voices and watching body language help us communicate better virtually and on video calls during the rest of the year.

We have gathered curl people like this annually since 2017, even if some years during Covid were “different”. To me, this is one of the best events of the year. I get to hang out and talk curl with good friends a whole weekend!

The 2026 edition was held in Prague in late May and kept the general style of past events. About 25 people got into the room. We had five curl maintainers present and quite a lot of local curious minds.

The curl up format is easy, casual and friendly. We do topical presentations, followed up with Q&A and discussions around the topics brought up – of course usually with reflections about curl’s role, both past and future. We live-stream and record the presentations to allow our friends who could not attend to keep up both in real-time but also after the fact.

Unfortunately the tech is not always on our side so the quality sometimes is a little lacking. This year I brought an HDMI-splitter and an HDMI-to-USB device to allow us to get better recordings, but they were not working as smoothly as intended so we had to use inferior backup solutions for most of the meetup.

Recorded talks

This presentation above was the “keynote”, the introduction talk to the event. We then also recorded another nine session that are all available in the curl up 2026 playlist on YouTube.

Photos

To give you all a little glimpse of what curl up is about, here’s a gallery showing some of the speakers and some scenery.

All photos taken by and donated to us by an anonymous curl fan present in the room.