Loïc Dachary has been involved with Free Software since 1987 when -he started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in France. His -first contact was with GNU Emacs and in 1989 with GCC which he used to port -a Unix System V kernel to a embedded Motorola 68030 motherboard. He -currently works as a developer for OutFlop, a company providing services and -software to operate poker rooms. He created Savannah, the GNU forge, in 2001 to -provide a Free alternative to proprietary forges. As a president of FSF -France, he provides technical and legal resources to French Free Software -developers. Loic Dachary is also a honorary member of APRIL since 1996, a French non-profit -dedicated to Free Software with over 5,500 members.
+Loïc Dachary has been involved with the Free Software Movement since +1987, when he started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in +France. In 2012, he founded Upstream +University, a nonprofit with the goal of teaching developers how to +contribute easily and efficiently. Dachary volunteers as a developer +for April, a grassroots organization +promoting Free Software. He maintains April's OpenStack cluster and organizes +contributions with agile methods. As President +of FSF France, he also provides technical +and legal resources to French Free Software developers. His day job is to use +and contribute to Ceph within OpenStack.