Hello fellow Pythonistas,

We hope you all are enjoying the longer daylight and the warmer weather that April has brought to us (in the northern hemisphere anyway). April also brings a new newsletter packed with updates!
We are just over 70 days until the conference and our volunteers are working hard to put together the best EuroPython ever. Without further ado, here is our update.

📝EuroPython Society Update

✈Visa

If you are planning to attend EuroPython in person, you might need a visa to enter Ireland. As a note, Ireland is part of the EU but it is outside of the Schengen zone. This means if you are from outside of the EU but you have a Schengen visa, you may still need a visa to get in.

Please, double check your case and make sure you have all the documentation in order before travelling to Ireland. If the visa process requires a support letter, we can do that too! Just head to https://ep2022.europython.eu/visa to request the support letter for your visa application!

🚸Childcare service

If you would like to attend EuroPython in person but worry about childcare, fear not, because we have the right solution for you!

We will be providing childcare service at the venue. The best part is that the service is free! Make sure to specify how many children will require childcare and we will take care of them, well, not we, but qualified professionals.

Also keep in mind that we are planning a family friendly mini Makers Fest. Now you have no excuses, you can bring your kids and hack a project together!

🍀EuroPython 2022 Conference Update

📜Programme

The Call for Proposal closed on April 3rd and we are excited to announce that we received a record breaking 429 proposals! Thanks to all the submitters for their time and effort in giving us so much to look forward to.

After closing the CfP we kicked-off 2 parallel reviews of these proposals:

• Community voting
• Panel review

The community voting closed in the third week of April and we were amazed by the community response: there were a whopping 24000 votes!! This superseded all our expectations and we’d like to thank everyone for putting in the time to cast their votes!

Parallely, 35 experienced reviewers have put in ~700 reviews across all our proposals. The programme team will run another round of reviews once the first round acceptances are sent out.

The programme team is now consolidating communities' preference and panel feedback to curate talks fit for the first round of acceptances.

🔥Panel discussions @ EuroPython

The programme team is working double time to put together collaborations to engage with the broader community. One such collaboration is with the core developers to put together a panel discussion on all things CPython and beyond. They are working hard to iron out the details of the panel. More details soon.

P.S. All of our Early Bird tickets are now sold out. We’re only left with 7 education tickets!

🚀Financial Aid

Towards our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we’re running a Financial Aid Programme to help individuals who would otherwise not be able to attend/speak at the conference. If you need help attending the conference, don’t hesitate to apply for help: https://europython.eu/finaid

💶Call for Sponsors

Big shoutout to our first confirmed sponsors Sendcloud, Ebury and Channable! Thank you for your support and we cannot wait to see you at your booths!

We are privileged to have many other fantastic companies who are interested in sponsoring EuroPython this year.

Apart from the standard sponsor packages, there are so many other ways you can support the conference: be a childcare or Financial Aid sponsor, help us organise a Django Girls Workshop, or sponsor a gourmet coffee stall for a day! You can find out all the fantastic standalone options here.

If you are interested in sponsoring EuroPython 2022, head to https://ep2022.europython.eu/sponsor and dig into the details of every sponsorship level.

If you still have questions, write to us at sponsoring@europython.eu

❣Irish Community Mixer @ Dublin

Ireland thrives with communities and EuroPython wouldn’t be the same without the support of these Community Partners:

• Coding Grace
• Codú Community
• Dublin Data Science
• Dublin Linux Community
• Dublin Linux Developers
• Farset Labs (Hackerspace)
• GDG Belfast
• PyBelfast
• PyLadies Dublin
• Python Ireland
• Tog Hackerspace
• Women in AI Ireland
• Women Who Code Belfast
• Women Who Code Dublin

The ever-growing list of Community Partners can be found at https://ep2022.europython.eu/community-partners

🗣Events @ EuroPython

EuroPython is much more than *just* training, talks & keynotes. Every year we run multiple varied events for our community and this year is no exception. Read on below to get a glimpse of what’s waiting for you in Dublin!

🥙Community Mixer Lunch @ Dublin

Organisers of community conferences and events across Europe, we invite you to grab lunch with us in Dublin! Let’s all get together, share our joys and pains of running events. In our experience conversations flow better with a nice meal in front. Join us to share ideas and cultivate cross community relationships.

The lunch is planned for 14 or 15 July. Watch this space!

👧Django Girls Workshop

If you identify as a woman and want to learn how to make websites, we have good news for you! We are holding a one-day workshop for beginners!

It will take place on Monday 11th July at Convention Centre Dublin in the heart of Dublin city: https://djangogirls.org/en/dublin/  

Applications to attend are open until July 2nd. We've only got 30 slots, don't waste for the last minute!!

If you are a Django expert, then consider joining us as a coach? Submit your interest via this form, and we will be in touch. Any other questions, contact us on dublin@djangogirls.org.

Please note that you do not need to have a EuroPython conference ticket to attend Django Girls workshop.

⚙Makers Fest

Learning new libraries and new features of Python is great. But, what about showing off cool things you’ve been working on, running a demo or simply talking about a pet project you’re passionate about? If you’re a Maker, Educator, or just someone who is interested in breaking and building things, then this fest is for you!!

There are no limits to the shape of the project: this could be an automation put together with Raspberry Pi, or an AI powered music composer. Bottom-line, any and every project is encouraged.

Register your interest by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/xTdpFJ2rV8iqmMCb9

🤗Trans*Code

After nearly 3 years of virus hiatus, Trans*Code will be returning! We are delighted that EuroPython will be hosting a Trans*Code event in Dublin in July!

Trans*Code is an international hack event series focused solely on drawing attention to transgender issues and opportunities. Trans*Code events aim to help draw attention to transgender issues through informal, topic-focused hackdays. Coders, designers, activists, and community members not currently working in technology are also encouraged to participate.

It is a free full day workshop & hackday open to trans and non-binary folk, allies, coders, designers and visionaries of all sorts. Stay tuned for more details.

⚡Beginners Day

If you are new to Python or you are not so familiar with it, don’t worry: we’ve got you covered. Join us at Beginner's Day: a day to cover the basics of Python so you can fully enjoy the conference ahead.

Please bear with us while we define the bells and whistles of this workshop including how to join. Stay tuned!

💡Pew Pew Workshop

Following the huge fun and success of the PewPew workshop at EuroPython 2019, you have a chance again to join the PewPew game console creator, Radomir Dopieralski, who will be running a workshop on how to program PewPew with CircuitPython.

If you are an experienced developer, we are looking for 2 more coaches to run the workshop. Please drop us an email at programme@europython.eu

💖EuroPython @ PyCon US

PyCon US just wound up and some of our EuroPython team members (Cheuk Ting Ho, Naomi Ceder, Patrick Armino, Sangarshanan Veera, Sebastian Zeeff) attended & presented at the conference. Here are some captures from the conference (in no particular order):

Did you come across them during the hallway track or enjoyed their talks? Let them & us know on twitter or email!

🎗️Upcoming Events

Python Ireland Monthly Meetup

Next Python Ireland Monthly meetup will be held on Wed 11th May, 6:30PM to 8:30PM and it will be online.

The speaker is Jeremiah Paige and he will talk about “Invisible Walls: Isolating Your Python”: Stop building projects that only "work on my machine", Learn how to isolate your python application by executing in an isolated, reproducible environment that extends beyond the code you write.

More details of the event can be found here: https://www.meetup.com/pythonireland/events/kqwjvrydchbpb/

PyLadies Dublin May Meetup

The next PyLadies Dublin meetup will be on Tue 21st May, a collaboration with Women in AI Ireland showcasing projects from the recent WaiPRACTICE programme. This will be our first in-person event since Covid restrictions 2 years ago, and will be hosted by Dogpatch Labs. Food will be provided thanks to Inscribe AI.

More details: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/285567337/

TOG Hackerspace (Dublin)

It’s “Bring your laptop to TOG’s Open Coding Night” on Tue 3rd May.

More details: https://www.meetup.com/Tog-Dublin-Hackerspace/events/ggzmtsydchbfb/

Cambridge Python User Group

At this virtual event on Tue 3rd May, Alexandre Faget will be leading a session on testing with pytest.

More details: https://www.meetup.com/CamPUG/events/285277862/

PyLadies Berlin Meetup

The next PyLadies Berlin meetup will be on Tue May 17 with talks from “Exploring our community” by Jessica Greene, “Reproducible machine learning projects with DVC and Poetry” by Doreen and “Python’s tale of concurrency” by Pradhvan Bisht.

Details: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-Berlin/events/285313817/

🌍Special Past Event Recap

PyCamp - to go camping in the pythonic way 🐍

Nature, OSS, and Python friends - this defines what PyCamp is.

After many years of PyCamping events in Argentina, the event had its first edition in Europe this year. The event counted with 25 people spending 4 days together doing what they love the most - collaborating with others through code. The location chosen was the beautiful region of Girona near Barcelona, Spain. Surrounded by nature, our pythonistas could choose any project or workshop to participate in.

From translating Japanese mangas to building bots and making music with Python, the projects were interesting and fun. If no project is of your taste, you can always propose one yourself. Not a Pythonista yourself? No problem at all. In this edition, we had people talking about DevOps tools and JavaScript frameworks, so feel free to bring different topics to the camp. The evenings were fulfilled with games, karaoke, and good chats. Living and collaborating with others makes without saying a true community event. So see you next PyCamp?

🐍Cool Python & Friends Projects

Memray - Memray is a memory profiler for Python. It can track memory allocations in Python code, in native extension modules, and in the Python interpreter itself.

Goey - Turn (almost) any Python 3 Console Program into a GUI application with one line.

Polars - Polars is a blazingly fast DataFrames library implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow Columnar Format as a memory model.

DeepMind AUX - AUX, built on top of JAX, provides audio processing functions and tools to JAX. It is a sister library of PIX designed for image processing in JAX. Likewise, all operations in AUX can be optimised through jax.jit

PyScript - PyScript is a Pythonic alternative to Scratch, JSFiddle or other "easy to use" programming frameworks, making the web a friendly, hackable, place where anyone can author interesting and interactive applications.

Hey hey!

To say that March went by quickly would be an understatement. Our volunteers have been working round the clock to put together a fantastic conference. We’ve been busy launching the Call for Proposals, Ticket sales and the AMA session for first-time speakers. Read along to find out more about them.

📝EuroPython Society Update

Ukraine Donation

Last month we asked you about how EuroPython Society can help our community in these trying times. We are pleased to inform you that we made a total of 10,000 EUR donation split equally between UNICEF and UNHCR. These donations will be matched 100% by a local Swedish organisation, thus doubling the amount.

Over the last month, we are relieved to hear many of our friends are safe. We'll continue with our everyday activities in supporting Python communities across Europe. If you have any suggestions on specific ways to directly help our affected communities, drop us a line at board@europython.eu

Trans*Code @ EuroPython

EuroPython Society champions diversity & inclusion. In line with our mission of making EuroPython and Python more accessible to everyone, especially the underrepresented folks, we have decided to host a Trans*Code event at our 2022 conference - Trans*Code is an informal hackday & workshop event which aims to help draw attention to transgender issues and opportunities.

The event is open to trans and non-binary folk, allies, coders, designers and visionaries of all sorts. We are privileged to have Noami Ceder on board to help and advise us with the organisation. Although she is experienced and awesome, it takes more than one to sow the seeds of pluralism.  

We want to make EuroPython 2022 an exceptionally welcoming place for trans people and other marginalised ones. If you identify as trans or non-binary and would like to volunteer your experience and time to help us organise the event and achieve our goal, please write to volunteers@europython.eu; or to our EuroPython Society chair, raquel@europython.eu (if you need to discuss something more private). If you are an ally, help us spread the word and lend us your support.

🍀EuroPython 2022 Conference Update

🗣Call for Proposals (CFP) & Financial Aid

The EuroPython 2022 Call for Proposals (CFP) has been extended!!

As a community conference, we are eager to hear about how you use Python in your professional and personal activities. All accepted speakers are eligible for a free conference ticket.

Submit and share your proposals in any format of your choice, be it talks, tutorials, workshops, panels, posters, helpdesks or other interactive sessions: https://europython.eu/cfp

Got any questions? Hit us up at helpdesk@europython.eu

💶Call for Sponsors

EuroPython 2022 will be held in-person this year, allowing our community to safely reconnect,  network, learn, share ideas, and create new relationships and partnerships.

Sponsors are what make EuroPython possible. Without our sponsors, EuroPython would not be the success that it is. With EuroPython back in-person this year, we’re excited to be able to provide our sponsors with opportunities to connect with and support the Python community, be face-to-face with talented developers and job recruits, access a large and diverse audience, and elevate their visibility and corporate identity within the Python community.

We’re offering 7 main packages with an aim to keep EuroPython accessible to most organisations keen to help the community.

In case of any queries, write to us at sponsoring@europython.eu

🎟Tickets

Ticket sales are open now! After months of planning, here are the three types we have on offer for you:

Combined Tickets: access to everything during the whole seven-day conference.
Conference Tickets: access to Conference & Sprint Weekend (13-17 July)
Tutorial Tickets: access to Workshop/Tutorial days (11-12 July) and the Sprint Weekend (16-17 July)

You can learn all the other details here: https://europython.eu/tickets

Free childcare: we provide free childcare service at the venue. If you are attending with your children, please register a ticket for yourself and select how many children will require childcare at checkout.

🥙Python Organisers’ Lunch @ Dublin

Organisers of other Python conferences around Europe, we invite you to attend lunch with us in Dublin! Let’s get together, share our joys and pains of running Python events, and chat about how the EPS can better support the community.

We are offering one free conference ticket per conference team. If you are interested, please email board@europython.eu to introduce yourselves and your event.

The lunch is planned for 14 or 15 July. We will be in touch with more details.

⚡Community Discounts

In addition, we would also like to support conferences and smaller user groups around Europe by offering a 10% discount across Business and Personal tiers of all ticket prices (excluding Early Bird sales).

If you are a regular participant to Python events, ask your local organisers to submit a request for the community discount, so they can distribute the vouchers to you.

💖Community Partners

We’re constantly looking for ways to strengthen our ties with the developers and communities on-ground. We’re psyched to announce our Community partners programme for communities across the island of Ireland.

As part of the programme, we’d like to connect with you and help you connect with like-minded others around Europe. Our team are planning many exciting activities. Apart from featuring you in our newsletter, we also invite your group attending the conference to the Irish Tech Community Mixer event, and guest post on our dev.to. By sharing, let’s amplify our knowledge and love for Python and Open Source in Ireland!

If you are interested, hit us at community@europython.eu

🌍New Website

EuroPython has a new face!! We’ve been collaborating with our friends at The Developer Society to put together a Dublin-esque theme for EuroPython.

We'd love to know how you find the new design, hit us up at plaza@europython.eu

🎗️Upcoming Python Events

Python Conference 2022 (Tuesday, 5th April 2022)

Data Science and Engineering Club: Workshop - Graph analytics and graph databases in Python (Saturday, 9th April 2022)

Python Ireland Meetup (Wednesday, 13th April 2022)

PyLadies Dublin Meetup (Tuesday, 19th April 2022)

🐍Cool Python Projects

Mercury - Mercury is a tool to convert your Python notebook into a web app and share it with anyone.
Viztracer - VizTracer is a low-overhead logging/debugging/profiling tool that can trace and visualise your python code execution.
Fast F1 - FastF1 is a python package for accessing and analysing Formula 1 results, schedules, timing data and telemetry.
Pythoncapi_compat  - can be used to write a C extension supporting a wide range of Python versions with a single code base.
nbdev - nbdev is a library that allows you to develop a python library in Jupyter Notebooks, putting all your code, tests and documentation in one place.

Hello fellow Pythonistas,

We apologise for the delay in the release of the February newsletter. Our heart goes out to everyone affected by the humanitarian crisis, especially members of our community. We stand by our community and will continue to provide any support we can whatever happens.
We'll continue with our everyday activities in supporting Python communities across Europe. If you have any suggestions on specific ways to directly help our community affected by the conflict, drop us a line at board@europython.eu

📝EuroPython Society Update

New-ish Team Structure

This year, we have made some changes to our traditional Workgroup Structure in place between 2015-2021. We aim to have a more balanced workload between contributors in different teams and give more autonomy to them while reducing the silos between teams.

We hope you like it. If you have any suggestions, email us: plaza@europython.eu.
Better yet, read on to see how to volunteer and make everything better together with us!

🍀EuroPython 2022 Conference Update

After 2 years of meeting our Python friends over Zoom, Matrix and Discord, we are now committed to an in-person conference (with a hybrid setup) at The CCD in Dublin on 11-17th July!

🗣Call for Proposals (CFP)

We are psyched to announce that we’ll launch our CFP on March 8th, 2022.

We're looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: programming from novice to advanced levels, applications, and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organisation. EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience.

More details to follow on our newsletter, blog, and socials. Stay tuned!

💲Call for Sponsors

EuroPython will be held in-person this year in the mega tech-hub Dublin.

Without our sponsors, EuroPython won’t be the success that it is. With us back in-person, we’re excited to provide our sponsors with opportunities to connect with and support the Python community.

With its combination of academic excellence, research labs, and world-leading technology companies, Ireland makes for a thriving place for deep tech. As a sponsor of EuroPython 2022, the opportunities to promote yourself and support a great open-source community here will be second to none.

We will release our exciting sponsor packages in early March. If you are interested in sponsoring drop us a line already at sponsoring@europython.eu

👩🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏽Call for Volunteers

EuroPython is organised and run by volunteers from the Python community. We always appreciate more help, more diverse voices to make the conference run smoothly and thoughtfully.

Donating your time for free is a big ask. But in return, you will be given a safe space to contribute your thoughts and work to shaping the conference to be for the community and of the community. And hopefully, you will also have a lot of fun in the process with our amazing team!

Interested in joining one of the teams? Hit us up at volunteers@europython.eu

🎫Tickets

We’re working hard to make EuroPython accessible to all. We’ll have more information about the tickets and the prices by mid-March.

Keeping the tradition from previous conferences, we’ll again offer free tickets to Python Core developers as part of our Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant and our newly established EuroPython Fellows. We will also have an open invitation to organisers responsible for other Python conferences around Europe to attend lunch with us at The CCD. Stay tuned for more information!

Have any questions in the meantime? Hit us up at helpdesk@europython.eu

🎗️ Upcoming Python Events

Python Ireland March Meetup (9th March 2022)
If you are like us who cannot wait any longer to meet more Pythonistas in Ireland, then join them in their March Meetup on Wednesday, 9 March 19:30- 21:30 online! You can submit a talk proposal here: http://python.ie/meetups

PyLadies Dublin x PyLadies London IWD Special (15th March 2022)
Celebrate International Women's Day with PyLadies Dublin & London virtual meetup. They have some interesting talks and activities planned. RSVP here:https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/283826352/

Python Web Conference (21-26 March 2022)
The Python Web Conf is a virtual event designed to promote best practices for hard web production problems. Register & use our community sponsor code — EuroPython@PWC2022 — to get an EXTRA 15% off: https://t.co/BQsi9NOeXp

PyCon DE and PyData Berlin (11-13 April 2022)
PyCon DE and PyData Berlin is one month away! Check out their fantastic session list! We hear the tickets are selling fast, so grab yours now: https://ti.to/pysv/pyconde-pydata-berlin-2022

PyCamp Spain (15-18 April 2022)
PyCamp is a 4-day hackathon in the Spanish countryside. The event is as simple as getting together a small group away from the city with the basic requirements for the NERD to survive: Bed, Food, Energy, and the Internet. They also have Financial Aid options, hit them up at https://pycamp.es

🐍Cool Python Projects

1. Black - Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is finally out of beta and is stable. Go check it out!
2. Haystack - Haystack is an end-to-end framework that enables you to build powerful and production-ready pipelines for different search use cases.
3. Poetry-polylith-plugin - A plugin for the Poetry tool that enables the concept of workspaces and the Polylith architecture.
4. Bandit - Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.
5. Optimum - Optimum is an extension of HuggingFace Transformers, providing a set of performance optimization tools enabling maximum efficiency to train and run models on targeted hardware.
6. Tdda - Python module provides command-line and Python API support for the overall process of data analysis.