EuroPython 2019 will be held from July 8-14 2019 in Basel, Switzerland, at the Congress Center Basel (CCB) for the main conference days (Wed-Fri) and the FHNW Muttenz for the workshops/trainings/sprints days (Mon-Tue, Sat-Sun).
Since our website was updated this year, we would like to remind you how you can configure your tickets and profiles, so that we get the right information for printing badges and adjusting catering counts.
We also had a few issues with the ticket configuration and assignments last week. As a result, some of the ticket name changes you may have made were lost. Please do consider assigning tickets to other rather than just changing the name on the ticket, since that way, we receive information about the new ticket owner’s preferences as well.
Log in to the website
The first step to administer your tickets and account is to log in to the website. If you don’t have an account yet, you can register easily using email and password or Google authentication.
Please avoid creating multiple accounts, since this can easily cause confusion and merging accounts is currently not possible.
Assigning tickets to other people
If you are the buyer of the tickets, you can now assign the tickets to other people, e.g. in your company.
In order to assign tickets, the people you want to assign them to need to have an account on our system. Please tell them to register with the EuroPython website and provide you with the email address they use to register.
Once they have registered and you have the email address they used, you can then go to the ticket section and reassign the ticket:
Click on “Assign ticket” and then enter the email address of the person to assign the ticket to:
Clicking save will then transfer the ticket to the new user.
Configuring your ticket
If you have bought a ticket or have been assigned a ticket, please check the configuration of the ticket, so we will use the correct details for printing badges, arranging catering and t-shirt counts, etc.
This will take you to a form where you can configure the name as it should appear on the badge, your preferred t-shirt size, diet, expected days of attendance and a (funny) tagline to put on the badge.
Printing your invoice
If you have bought tickets on the website, you will find the invoices for the tickets on your account page as well:
You can download the invoice in PDF format, print and save it to your records.
Configuring your EuroPython account
The website also provides a couple of other dialogs which allow you to configure your account:
The “Profile settings” allow you to edit the profile shown on the website. This is especially important for speakers, since their profiles will be public and associated with their presentations.
The “Privacy settings” dialog allows you to opt-in to recruiting emails from our sponsors (among other things):
If you happen to be looking for a new job or freelance opportunity, this is a good way to get more information from sponsors who will present in our recruiting session.
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websites, how the internet works and would you like to try programming
your own first blog, but don’t know where to start? We have good news
for you: we are holding a
During the workshop you will work through a tutorial in a small group of
three attendees and one coach. Our coaches are software developers who
contribute their time, knowledge and energy for you and Django Girls. All you need is a working laptop,
and we’ll help you with the rest.
You can attend the workshop for free! Your motivation counts, let us know about it in your application.
Registering for the workshop
The workshop is aimed at women with little or no programming
experience, but may also be useful if you’ve learned a different
discipline (like data science) and would like to learn how to build
websites with Django.
The workshop is free to attend, but you have to apply and be
accepted. We only have 30 seats available for the workshop, and we’ll
pick the best applicants based on the information you provide you provide on the form.
We can’t run this workshop without coaches! A coach will be assigned
to each group of 3 attendees. Their job is to support and encourage
their team as they work through the Django Girls tutorial at their own
pace.
If you’d like to
apply to be a coach, please sign up here.
Sponsors of EuroPython 2019 Django Girls Workshop
The EuroPython Society is providing the room and catering in our training venue, the FHNW
Campus Muttenz.
Nexmo will provide the Django Girls workshop box.
EntwicklerHeld will provide t-shirts for our coaches.
More information is available on our Django Girls page:
We are happy to announce the start of our financial aid program for this year’s EuroPython.
As part of our commitment to the Python community, we are pleased to announce that we offer special grants for people in need of a financial aid to attend EuroPython.
We offer financial aid conference grants in these 2 categories:
Free ticket. Get a standard ticket for the conference for free (including access to conference days (Wed-Fri), Beginners’ Day workshop and sprints.). Note: training passes are NOT included in the free conference ticket.
Travel / Accommodation. We will cover the travel costs pro rata, depending on what you are applying for. You can get partial refund for the accommodation.
Grant Eligibility
EuroPython is a wonderful place to meet and share your experience with other Python developers from Europe and all around the world. Our goal is support people which want to make Python community better: conference speakers and tutorial presenters, active people from small Python communities and open source contributors.
Our grants are open to all people in need of financial aid. We will specifically take into account the following criteria in the selection process:
Contributors: potential speakers/trainers of EuroPython (people who submitted a proposal) and all who contribute to EuroPython and/or Python community projects.
Economic factors: we want everybody to have a chance to come to EuroPython, regardless of economic situation or income level.
Diversity: we seek the most diverse and inclusive event possible.
How to apply
Please see our financial aid page for all details:
Even though the EPS is already sponsoring finaid, we can always use more budget to increase the number of people who can benefit from the program.
You or your company can support our diversity and finaid initiative by becoming a sponsor. We have a special options “Financial aid sponsor” and “Financial aid donation” in the list of sponsor options, that can be booked separately or be included in the sponsor package.
Please check our sponsor brochure for more information and contact finaid@europython.eu or the sponsor work group directly sponsoring@europython.eu.
Bring new sponsor and get free ticket for EuroPython 2019 !
Although the main conference starts on Wednesday, July 10th, there’s already so much to do for attendees with the main conference ticket on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th.
Beginners’ Day and Sponsored Trainings
You can come to the workshops and trainings venue at FHNW Campus Muttenz and:
Details on the Beginners’ Day workshop and the sponsored trainings will be announced separately.
Catering on training days not included
Since we have to budget carefully, the lunch and coffee breaks are not included, if you don’t have a training ticket or combined ticket.
To not keep you hungry, we have arranged that you can buy lunch coupons (price to be announced later). You can also go to the grocery store at the ground floor. For coffee breaks you can go to the ground floor, to the 12th floor of the FHNW building, or outside at the beach bar (nice weather only) and buy drinks.
More advanced talks than in previous EuroPython editions
We are glad that the Python community has heard our call to submit more advanced talks this year. This will make EuroPython 2019 even more interesting than our previous edition.
Waiting List
Some talks are still in the waiting list. We will inform all speakers who have submitted talks about the selection status by email.
PyData EuroPython 2019
As in previous years, we will have lots of PyData talks and trainings:
4 trainings on Monday and Tuesday (July 8-9)
34 talks on Wednesday and Thursday (July 10-11)
no PyData talks on Friday (July 12)
Full Schedule
The full schedule will be available early in June.
Training Tickets & Combined Tickets
If you want to attend the trainings offered on the training days (July 8-9), please head over to the registration page in the next couple of days. Sales are going strong and we only have 300 tickets available.
Combined tickets are new this year and allow attending both training and conference days with a single ticket.
After the rush to the early-bird tickets last week (we sold more than 290 tickets in 10 minutes), we expect a rush to the regular and training tickets this week as well.
We only have 300 training tickets available, so if you want to attend the training days, please consider getting your ticket soon.
Available ticket types
We will have the following ticket types available:
regular conference tickets - admission to the conference days (July 10-12) and sprints (July 13-14)
training tickets - admission to the training days (July 8-9)
combined tickets - admission to training, conference and sprint days (July 8-14)
Please see our registration page for full details on the available tickets.
As reminder, here’s the conference layout:
Monday & Tuesday, July 8 & 9: Trainings, Beginners’ Day and other workshops
Wednesday–Friday, July 10–12: Conference talks, keynotes & exhibition
Saturday & Sunday, July 13 & 14: Sprints
Combined Tickets
These are a new ticket type we are introducing for EuroPython 2019, to simplify purchase and check-in at the conference for attendees who want to attend the complete EuroPython 2019 week with a single ticket.
To make the ticket more attractive, we are granting a small discount compared to purchasing training and conference tickets separately.
We have worked with our designer to compile all relevant information about the conference in a nice to read brochure, you can use to discuss a possible sponsorship in your company.
The talk voting page lists all submitted proposals, including talks, trainings and posters. The proposals are sorted in random order.
In order to vote, have a look at the title/abstract and then indicate your personal interest in attending this session. We have simplified the voting process and you may choose between these four options:
must see
want to see
maybe
not interested
The talks you haven’t voted for are marked “No vote”. Your votes are automatically saved to the backend without the need to click on a save or submit button.
Please note the voting period is a bit shorter this year. We want to make up some time and release a first selection of accepted proposals by May 22.
Who can participate?
Any registered attendee of the current EuroPython as well as any attendee of one of the past EuroPython conferences going back to 2015 can vote. If you have submitted a proposal this year, you are also eligible to vote.
Talk Selection
After the talk voting phase, the EuroPython Program Workgroup (WG) will use the votes to select the talks and build a schedule.
The talk voting is a good and strong indicator what attendees are interested to see. Submissions are also selected based on editorial criteria to e.g. increase diversity, giving a chance to less mainstream topics as well as avoiding too much of the same topic.
In general, the Program WG will try to give as many speakers a chance to talk as possible. If speakers have submitted multiple talks, the one with the highest rating will most likely get selected.
As previously announced, we will be opening early-bird tickets sales today at 12:00 CEST.
We will have 200 early-bird tickets available when we open up ticket sales. They offer a discount of up to 50% over the standard rate and are usually sold out within a few hours. In 2018 early bird tickets were sold out in just 45 minutes.
Please have your credit cards ready, in case you want to buy early-bird tickets. We won’t support Paypal payments this year due to the issues we ran into with their service last year.
For Python Core Developers, we have put a special grant in place, which will allow core developers to get free tickets to the conference. We will issue coupon codes for the regular tickets in the coming days, since we’d like to keep the early-bird tickets for people who are not eligible for such grants, refunds or discounts.
If you want to sign up, please check our grant page for details on how to apply.
