The shop is run on the Spreadshirt platform and so Spreadshirt will handle all payments, invoicing and shipping.
Since we’re running EuroPython 2020 as an online event, we will not be giving out conference bags or t-shirts this year, as we do for the in-person event. Instead, we give you the opportunity to choose among the many products we have put up in the shop, and order the color and size completely individually.
Any profit this creates will go towards the EuroPython 2021 financial aid budget, so will be put to good use.
Save 15% until July 5
Spreadshirt is giving a 15% discount on the prices until July 5, 23:59 UTC, so if you’re ordering in the next few days, you can still get your shirt in time for the conference.
Unfortunately, they don’t support shipping to the US, Australia, Brasil and a few other countries on their European shop system.
Since the US taxation system is too complex for us to handle at the moment, we have not created a corresponding US shop yet. We will look into this later this year.
After the 2nd CFP, we found that we had so many good talk submissions that we were able to open a fourth track. Together with the newly added slots for the Indian / Asian / Pacific and Americas time zones, we now have a fully packed program, with:
We are proud to have reached almost the size of our in-person event with the online version of EuroPython 2020.
Never miss a talk
All talks will be made available to the attendees as live Webinars, with easy switching between tracks, as well as online streams, which will allow rewinding to watch talks you may have missed during the day.
Conference Tickets
Conference tickets are available on our registration page. We have simplified and greatly reduced the prices for the EuroPython 2020 online edition.
As always, all proceeds from the conference will go into our grants budget, which we use to fund financial aid for the next EuroPython edition, special workshops and other European conferences and projects:
We hope to see lots of you at the conference in July. Rest assured that we’ll make this a great event again — even within the limitations of running the conference online.
Sprints
On Saturday and Sunday, we will have sprints/hackathons on a variety of topics. Registration of sprint topics has already started. If you would like to run a sprint, please add your sprint topic to the wiki page we have available for this:
If registrations continue as they currently do, we will have a few hundred people waiting to participate in your sprint projects, so this is the perfect chance for you to promote your project and find new contributors.
Participation in the sprints is free, but does require registration. We will provide the necessary collaboration tools in form of dedicated Jitsi or Zoom virtual rooms and text channels on our Discord server.
EuroPython is your conference
EuroPython has always been a completely volunteer based effort. The organizers work hundreds of hours to make the event happen and will try very hard to create an inspiring and exciting event.
However, we can only provide the setting. You, as our attendees, are the ones who fill it with life and creativity.
We are very much looking forward to having you at the conference !
Our program work group (WG) has been working hard over the last week to select the first batch of sessions for EuroPython 2020, based on your talk voting and our diversity criteria.
We’re now happy to announce the first 60 talks, brought to you by 61 speakers.
Tomorrow, we will open the second CFP to fill the additional slots we have added for the Americas, India/Asian/Pacific time zones. This will then complete the program for EP2020, with over 80 sessions by more than 80 speakers waiting for you — from all over the world !
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.
Full Schedule
The full schedule will be available shortly after we have completed the second CFP, later in May.
Conference Tickets
Conference tickets are available on our registration page. We have simplified and greatly reduced the prices for the EP2020 online edition.
As always, all proceeds from the conference will go into our grants budget, which we use to fund financial aid for the next EuroPython edition, special workshops and other European conferences and projects:
We hope to see lots of you at the conference in July. Rest assured that we’ll make this a great event again — even within the limitations of running the conference online.
After participating in several other online events in Europe, we found that there is a lot of interest in these events from other time zones as well. This is a real advantage of running an online event: without the need to travel, joining an event becomes much easier.
To make it possible for speakers from the Americas and India/Asia/Pacific regions to give talks at EuroPython 2020 as well, we have decided to extend the schedule and provide extra slots in the CEST morning and the evening hours, so that we can have almost 80 talk slots available, and run a second CFP with specific emphasis on submissions from outside the central European time zones.
Submitting a talk
We will run this second CFP from May 11 until May 24.
To submit a talk, please visit our CFP page on the website. This has all the necessary details on how to submit a talk.
We would also welcome submissions for helpdesks and posters, regardless of time zone, since we haven’t received any in the first CFP.
Results from the first CFP
The results from the first CFP will be announced on Sunday (May 10).
Now, just as many other in-person events, running the online version required a lot of research, experimentation, gaining knowledge in using online conference tools and finding a concept which would allow us to carry over as much of the in-person conference experience to the online version as possible.
This is an on-going effort, but we believe that our existing research will help other Python events go online as well and want to share this knowledge with you.
Running Online Conferences
The two central documents we have are:
EuroPython 2020 - Online Conference Tools This covers research on a lot of different tools available out there, our experience with them, hints and tips on how to use them effectively (esp. for Zoom and Discord).
EuroPython 2020 - Virtual Conference Concept Since we had to start afresh with the conference concept, we ran and still are running a brainstorming phase to come up with ideas and are now starting to materialize these into a concept, which we’ll use as basis for running EuroPython this year.
If you have questions around these documents and their content, feel free to contact us at helpdesk@europython.eu.
Sharing our Zoom Webinar and Pro licenses
In addition to sharing our research, we’d also like to share the Zoom Webinar and Pro licenses we have with other events, where possible. We have already shared them with:
The only thing we ask is that some of our work group members can participate in the event as co-host to observe and help, since we need to train and gain more experience in using these tools. As a bonus, we can also help with the configuration and share our existing experience.
Reach out to enthusiastic Python developers, users and
professionals worldwide by presenting your company at the first online
EuroPython conference ever, from July 23-26!
Sponsoring
EuroPython guarantees you highly targeted visibility and the opportunity to present yourself and your company in a professional and
innovative environment.
We have updated our in-person conference sponsor packages to the
new online format and lowered the prices, giving you an excellent
opportunity to reach out to attendees and even run your own virtual
rooms, text channels, talks and training sessions throughout the conference and sprint days.
You will also be able to post job ads on our website and the conference chat system, as well as get a mention and opportunity to give away digital swag via our virtual exhibit page.
In addition, as a sponsor of EuroPython 2020, you will directly help promote the
work of a great open-source community which has become a powerhouse of
technological development and innovation.
In order to keep things simple for the EuroPython 2020 online version, we have significantly reduced the ticket prices and refactored the ticket structure to just two ticket types and two categories:
Conference & sprint tickets
The conference & sprint ticket includes admission to the EuroPython 2020 main conference (July 23-24) and sprints days (July 25-26).
Business conference ticket: EUR 175.00 incl. 0% Swedish VAT (for people using Python to make a living)
Personal conference ticket: EUR 95.00 incl. 0% Swedish VAT (for people enjoying Python in their free time or as a freelancer)
Sprint-only tickets
Admission to the sprint days (July 25-26) is free of charge, but we still require you to register and “buy” tickets, since that way we can send out the conference details using our ticketing system:
Business sprint ticket: EUR 0.00 incl. 0% Swedish VAT (for people using Python to make a living)
Personal sprint ticket: EUR 0.00 incl. 0% Swedish VAT (for people enjoying Python in their free time or as a freelancer)
Full details
Please see our registration page for full details on the available tickets.
With conference tickets, you will also be able to participate in the talk voting which is still available until Sunday, April 26 23:59:59 CEST.
Talk voting is your chance to tell us what you’d like to see at EuroPython 2020.
Sprints-only tickets are not eligible for talk voting, but if you have bought a ticket for one of the previous EuroPython conferences, you can still vote after logging in to the website.
Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant
For Python Core Developers, we have put a special grant in place, which will allow core developers to get free tickets to the conference.
If you want to sign up, please check our grant page for details on how to apply.
We received the very
sad news today, that Oier
Echaniz Beneitez has passed away, after a long-term illness (not
as a result of COVID-19).
Oier was one of
the initiators for bringing EuroPython to Bilbao in 2015 and
co-chaired the conference in both 2015 and 2016, together with
Fabio:
Oier
giving the EuroPython 2015 welcome speech together with Fabio
Pliger
He was one of the
most enthusiastic and engaged organizers of the conference, served on
the EuroPython Society board from 2015 - 2017 and founded and chaired
the local Python
organization in San Sebastian (PySS, pronounced “peace”).
Oier also started the pyjok.es
project, together with Alexandre Savio and Ben
Nuttall, inaugurating the first Python
Jokes-as-a-Service of its kind.
“Oier was an
exceptionally funny guy with a wonderful sense of humour. He was
kind, caring and considerate, and worked hard for PySS and
EuroPython. I have fond, happy memories of any time I spent with him
and know he’ll be greatly missed.” — Ben
Nuttall
“Oier put so
much enthusiasm in everything we did, in our first quests together
and then doing all the activities of ACPySS. He was not only an
active member of the Python community but also very involved in the
local cancer research and care community. We knew his end was going
to come sooner rather than later, and these last 2 years have been
quite harsh on him. His amazing will to live was what kept him going
for so long and we are sure that the Python community motivated him
to keep on. Rest in PySS, my friend.” — Alexandre
Savio
Our
good friend: We’ll miss you!
May the good vibes and
pyntxos always be with you.
Thank you for all the good times, – Your friends from the EuroPython
community
The talk voting page lists all submitted proposals, including talks, helpdesks 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.
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, give a chance to less mainstream topics as well as avoid 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.
(*) We will start ticket sales in the coming days to give you a chance to participate in talk voting as well.
Since we had started the CFP under the assumption of running an
in-person conference and are now switching EuroPython 2020 to an
online event, we will extend the CFP for another two weeks until
April 12, to give everyone who would like to participate in this new
format, a chance to submit a session proposal.
For the conference days, we are looking
for the following session types:
Talks of 35- or 45-minute duration
(including 3-5 minutes for Q&A)
Posters
Help desks / Panels / Interactive
sessions
We will give out free tickets to the
event for all selected speakers.
For posters, we are planning to
collect them on a gallery page, together with PDF versions to read
during the event. The speaker will then be available during the
poster session to answer questions and present more details using
screen sharing.
Help desks, panels and interactive
sessions will be run using virtual rooms we’ll make available
during the conference days.
We will also have lightning talks
for the online event, but those will be collected closer to the event
using a separate form or Google sheet - similar to how we run this at
the in-person conference.
For submitting sprints, please
check our sprints
page. Note that unlike the conference days, the
sprints day won’t require buying a ticket.
Let’s make this an
engaging event for everyone
Even though we’re running an online
event, our aim is to make the online event as engaging as possible,
so we will provide ways for direct interaction with the speakers
after their talk in separate virtual rooms and additionally a chat
system for asynchronous interaction.
The conference system will also allow
live polls and text or audio/video based Q&A sessions, so please
consider this when preparing your sessions and add any polls you’d
like to run in the submission notes section (“Additional
information for talk reviewers”).
The conference will be held between
09:00 CEST and 20:00 CEST on the two conference days. We will try to
schedule talks based on location and timezone of the speaker. Please
indicate your timezone in submission notes.