20th Anniversary of EuroPython

Marc-Andre Lemburg -

This year's conference will mark the 20th edition of the EuroPython conference.

Since we started touring Europe in 2002 in Charleroi, Belgium, we have come a long way. The conference has grown from the initial 240 to around 1200-1400 attendees every year. The organization had started with a small group of people in a somewhat ad-hoc way and has now grown into a well structured team backed by the non-profit EuroPython Society (EPS), while still keeping the fun spirit of the early days.

EuroPython 2002 was the first major all volunteer run event for Python. A lot of other conferences have since emerged in Europe and we're actively trying to help them wherever we can, with our grants program, growing conference knowledge base and our Organizers' Lunch, for which we regularly invite representatives of all European Python conferences to get together to network, exchange experience in organizing events community building and understand how we can most effectively help each other.

To celebrate the anniversary, we took a deep look into our archives and have put together live website copies of the last few years, going back all the way to EP2009, which was held in Birmingham, UK. For previous years, archive.org stored some pages of the websites, so let's do a quick tour of 20 years of EuroPython:

EuroPython 2021

Online Event, July 26 - August 1, 2021

EuroPython 2020

Online Event, July 23 - 26, 2020

EuroPython 2019

Basel, Switzerland from July 8 - 14, 2019

EuroPython 2018

Edinburgh, UK from July 23 - 29, 2018

EuroPython 2017

Rimini, Italy from July 9 - 16, 2017

EuroPython 2016

Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain from July 17 -24, 2016

EuroPython 2015

Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain from July 20 - 26, 2015

EuroPython 2014

Berlin, Germany from July 21 - 27, 2014

EuroPython 2013

Florence, Italy from  July 1 - 7 2013

EuroPython 2012

Florence, Italy from July 2 - 8, 2012

EuroPython 2011

Florence, Italy from June 20 - 26, 2011

EuroPython 2010

Birmingham, UK, from July 17 - 22, 2010

EuroPython 2009

Birmingham, UK, from June 28 - July 4, 2009

EuroPython 2008

Vilnius, Lithuania, from July 7 - 12, 2008

EuroPython 2007

Vilnius, Lithuania, from  July 9 - 14, 2007

EuroPython 2006

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, from June 30 - July 9, 2006

EuroPython 2005

Göteborg, Sweden, from June 27 - July 3, 2005

EuroPython 2004

Göteborg, Sweden, from June 7 - 9, 2004 + sprints

EuroPython 2003

Charleroi, Belgium, from Jun 25 - 27, 2003

EuroPython 2002

Charleroi, Belgium, from June 26 - 28, 2002

What a blast :-)

Hope to see all of you again at EuroPython 2021 and even more so at the next in-person event (hopefully EuroPython 2022 in Dublin).

Enjoy,
EuroPython Society
https://www.europython-society.org/