It started by the middle of september I had the idea, to form a shared library between people living in the same city, I made an outline of the points and what we can do to make that happen, I estimated the work, and published a fundraising campaign on open collective to be able to fund the project. About the Founder: Omar Shaban is a software architect and software engineer with a passion for programming and open source. He began programming as a youngster in 2001. He is the lead maintainer of PHP's PECL Solr Extension and a proud member of the PHP Group. Omar enjoys resolving complex problems, designing web applications architecture, and optimizing applications' performance. He is interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning.