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Loic Dachary will be speaking about contributing to OpenStack and Upstream University on Monday, April 15, during 2013's first Openstack Summit.

Opensource.com has posted an interview with Loïc Dachary, our president. Check it out!

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the line-up for its upcoming LibrePlanet 2013 conference, to be held in Cambridge, MA at the Harvard Science Center on March 23-24.

To celebrate its first year, Upstream University is organizing a session in advance of the next OpenStack summit, in Portland. If you can fly in two days ahead of the event to spend the weekend improving your OpenStack contribution skills, please consider submitting an application to attend the workshop. This a one-time offer for free training.

Upstream University will be at FOSDEM 2013. If you would like to better understand how the training can improve your contribution skills, Loïc Dachary will be available on sunday Morning. We would also be happy to hear about innovative ways to improve contributions, new tricks etc. If you're willing to share your experience, please get in touch with us either at contact@upstream-university.org or on irc.freenode.net#upstream-university

Meet Upstream University during the April enterprise Camp on innovation, January 24th, 2013, in Paris. Loïc Dachary will explain how to better approach Free Software contributions and tell success stories of linux kernel and OpenStack developers.

Upstream University organizes a pro-bono training January 19th & 20th in Paris, ten minutes walk from Notre-Dame. Anyone willing to spend the week-end learning how to better contribute to Free Software projects can register.

On Thursday November 29th, eNovance has organized the 3rd edition of the «OpenStack in action» event in Paris. The day was intense and we had speakers coming from all around the world to talk about OpenStack, including Adolfo Brandes, Executive director of Upstream University.

A short list of the important Upstream University events happening until the end of the year.

The last OpenStack Summit was not only Upstream University's first Summit, but the venue of my first full-length talk! It was an important milestone: read on for more details.

I'm happy to annouce that we've gotten a speaking slot at the OpenStack Summit! It will be held on Wednesday, October 17th, at 11:50am, at the "Manchester F" room.

On October 12th, Upstream University will play a role in the Open World Forum by participiting in the "From Education to Continuing Education" round table, held from 11am to 12:30pm CEST.

With the objective of finding students, gauging interest, and putting the word out on Upstream University, we attended four conferences in July: Europython in Italy, LSM in Switzerland, Oscon in the US, and FISL in Brazil. Over the next few weeks we'll post a brief report on each of them, starting today with EuroPython.

Upstream University, founded in June 2012 with support from Richard Stallman, Karen Sandler, and Bradley Kuhn, has just launched its training program targeted at helping developers become better free software contributors.