We are pleased to present our EuroPython 2019 Sponsor Brochure:

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.

EuroPython 2019 Sponsor Brochure as PDF

If you have questions, please contact our sponsor team at sponsoring@europython.eu.

Once you have decided, please sign up via the form on our sponsor package page.

Early-bird sponsorship deal

If you are quick to decide, you can benefit from a 10% early-bird discount we give on sponsor packages, if you sign up today (Friday, May 17):

https://ep2019.europython.eu/sponsor/packages/ 

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2019 Team
https://ep2019.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

Talk voting is your chance to tell us what you’d like to see at EuroPython 2019. We will leave talk voting open until:

Friday, May 17 23:59:59 CEST

In order to vote, please log in to the website and then navigate to the talk voting page:

https://ep2019.europython.eu/events/talk-voting/

How talk voting works

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.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2019 Team
https://ep2019.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

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 more details on tickets, please see our registration page:

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. 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.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2019 Team
https://ep2019.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

We would like to remind you that the Call for Proposals closes this coming Sunday:

EuroPython 2019 CFP ends on May 12 23:59:59 CEST

Please submit your proposal via our website:

https://ep2019.europython.eu/events/call-for-proposals/

For full details, please see our previous blog post on the CFP 2019.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2019 Team
https://ep2019.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

As in the last few years, we will again have early-bird ticket sales for the conference.

We plan to open early bird ticket sales on Monday, May 13th at 12:00 CEST.

This year, 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.

Early-Bird Conference Tickets

We have the following three categories of early-bird rate ticket prices for the full conference tickets (Beginners’ Day workshop, 3 conference days, sprints):

• Business conference ticket: EUR 395.00 excl. VAT, EUR 425.42 incl. 7.7% Swiss VAT
  (for people using Python to make a living)
• Personal conference ticket: EUR 265.00 incl. 7.7% Swiss VAT
  (for people enjoying Python from home)
• Student conference ticket: EUR 95.00 incl. 7.7% Swiss VAT
  (only available for pupils, students and postdoctoral researchers; please bring your student card or declaration from University, stating your affiliation, starting and end dates of your contract)

Please note that access to trainings is not included in the early-bird conference ticket price. We will have separate “Training passes” for this, later in May.

We would like to encourage and trust you, to pick a ticket type that reasonably fits your personal situation.

For more details, please see the registration page:

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2019 Team
https://ep2019.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

Reach out to many enthusiastic Python developers, users and professionals in Basel this July !

Sponsoring EuroPython guarantees you highly targeted visibility and the opportunity to present yourself and your company in a professional and innovative environment.

Also, as a sponsor of EuroPython 2019, you will directly help promote the work of a great open-source community which is becoming a powerhouse of technological development and innovation.

Want to know more ?

Head over to the sponsor packages page and feel free to contact us directly with any questions at sponsoring@europython.eu

Special offer for early bird sponsors

Sponsors who sign up before or on May 17, will receive a special 10% discount on the sponsor package price.

Become a sponsor and support EuroPython 2019 today !

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2019 Team
https://ep2019.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

We are happy to announce the Call for Proposals is now open. The CfP will close on Sunday in two weeks:

Sunday, May 12 23:59:59 CEST

Please submit your proposal via our website:

https://ep2019.europython.eu/events/call-for-proposals/

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 organization. EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience.

Please also forward this Call for Proposals to anyone that you feel may be interested.

Presenting at EuroPython

We will accept a broad range of presentations, from reports on academic and commercial projects to tutorials and case studies. As long as the presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program.

Can you show something new and useful? Can you show the attendees how to: use a module? Explore a Python language feature? Package an application? If so, please consider submitting a talk.

PyData EuroPython 2019

As usual there will be a PyData track at this year’s conference. Please submit your papers for the PyData track through the EuroPython form. Any suitable (i.e. data science, AI  and analytics)  submission will be considered for the PyData track.
The PyData track is run in cooperation with NumFocus.

The 2019 PyData track will be on Tuesday (trainings), Wednesday  (talks) and Thursday (talks).

There are six different kinds of contributions that you can present at EuroPython:

Formats

Talks and trainings should be held in English language only.

Regular Talk / approx. 110 slots

These are standard “talks with slides”, allocated in slots of

The Q&A session, if present, is included in the time slot. 3-5 Minutes for Q&A is a good practice.

We will only offer a limited number of 60 minute slots, please only choose these slots for in-depth sessions or topics which require more background information.

• 30 minutes (ca. 50%)
• 45 minutes (ca. 34%)
• 60 minutes (ca. 16%)

We are looking for an approx. distribution of expertise (Python or domain expertise)

• 40% Beginners
• 25% Intermediate
• 25% Advanced

Trainings / 16 slots

Deep-dive into a subject with all details. These sessions are apporx. 3 hours long. The training attendees will be encouraged to bring a laptop. They should be prepared with less slides and more source code. Room capacity for the trainings rooms is approx. 100 seats.

Panels

A panel is a group of three to six experts plus a moderator discussing a matter in depth, an intensive exchange of (maybe opposite) opinions. A panel may be 30-60 minutes long. We have introduced this interactive format for EuroPython 2017 due to the many requests we have received to make the conference more interactive and have more challenging / mind-bending content in place.  Please note if you suggest a panel you will have to organise the panelists and coordinate with the Program WG, panelist will require a ticket to the conference.

Interactive

This is a completely open 60-minute format. Feel free to make your suggestions. There are only two rules: it must be interactive, real-time human-to-human-interaction and of course compliant with the EuroPython Code of Conduct.

Posters / 20 slots

Posters are a graphical way to describe a project or a technology, printed in large formats; posters are exhibited at the conference, can be read at any time by participants, and can be discussed face to face with their authors during the poster session.

Helpdesk / 6 slots

Helpdesks are a great way to share your experience on a technology, by offering to help people answering their questions and solving their practical problems. You can run a helpdesk by yourself or with colleagues and friends. Each helpdesk will be open for 3 hours in total, 1.5 hours in the morning and 1.5 hours in the afternoon. People looking for help will sign up for a 30 minute slot and talk to you. There is no specific preparation needed; you just need to be proficient in the technology you run the helpdesk for.

Lightning Talks

A lightning talk (LT) is a short presenatation which must not be longer than five minute. LTs are not via the CfP but walk-in registations, see here.  

Community Based Talk Voting

Attendees who have bought a ticket in time for the Talk Voting period gain the right to vote for talks submitted during the Call For Proposals.

The Program WG will also set aside a number of slots which they will then select based on other criteria to e.g. increase diversity or give a chance to less mainstream topics.

Conference Layout

Please note that the conference layout has changed in 2018, the main conference (talks) is now only three days:

• Monday and Tuesday:
  trainings, workshops, Beginners’ Day, DjangoGirls
• Wednesday, Thursday, Friday:
  talks, panels, posters, helpdesks, open sessions,… (no trainings!).

Discounts for Content Contributors

Since EuroPython is a not-for-profit community conference, it is not possible to pay out rewards for talks or trainings. For talks, posters, help desk and organising a panels or interactive sessions we will give out a 25% discount coupon valid for one conference ticket. Trainers will receive a 100% discount coupon for both a conference ticket and a training pass to compensate for the longer preparation time. See here for more details.

Inappropriate Language and Imagery

Please consider that EuroPython is a conference with an audience from a broad geographical area which spans countries and regions with vastly different cultures. What might be considered a “funny, inoffensive joke” in a region might be really offensive (if not even unlawful) in another. If you want to add humor, references and images to your talk, avoid any choice that might be offensive to a group which is different from yours, and pay attention to our EuroPython Code of Conduct.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2019 Team
https://ep2019.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

We are happy to announce the launch of our website for EuroPython 2019:

Thanks to Artur, Patrick and our web WG, the website now comes with a renovated layout, modern technology and new features.

At the same time, we are launching the CFP for the conference. We’ll post details in a separate blog post.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2019 Team
https://ep2019.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

We’re pleased to announce our official conference logo for EuroPython 2019, July 8-14, in Basel, Switzerland:

The logo is inspired by graphical elements from the Basel Jean Tinguely Museum and Basel Rhine Swimming. It was again created by our designer Jessica Peña Moro from Simétriko, who had already helped us in previous years with the conference design.

Some more updates:

• We’re working on launching the website, the CFP and ticket sales in April. This year, we’d like to see more CFP entries for advanced topics.
• We are also preparing the sponsorship packages for the website launch. Launch sponsors will again receive a 10% discount on the package price. If you’re interested in becoming a launch sponsor, please contact our sponsor team at sponsoring@europython.eu.
  

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

europythonsociety:

At the last General Assembly of the EPS at EuroPython 2018 in Edinburgh, we voted on a new grant program we want to put in place for future EuroPython conferences.

We all love Python and this is one of the main reasons we are putting on EuroPython year after year, serving the “cast of thousands” which support Python. But we also believe it is important to give something back to the main team of developers who have contributed lots of their time and energy to make Python happen: the Python Core Developers.

This group is small, works countless hours, often in their free time and often close to burnout due to not enough new core developers joining the team.

Free Tickets for Python Core Developers

To help with growing the team, putting it more into the spotlight and give them a place to meet, demonstrate their work and a stage to invite new developers, we decided to give Python Core Developers free entry to future EuroPython conferences, starting with EuroPython 2019 in Basel, Switzerland

In recognition of Guido’s almost 20 years of leading this team, and with his permission, we have named the grant “Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant”.

Details of the grant program are available on our core grant page:

https://www.europython-society.org/core-grant

PS: If you are a core developer and want to organize a workshop, language summit or similar event at EuroPython 2019, please get in touch with our program workgroup soon, so that we can arrange rooms, slots, etc.

PPS: If you want to become a core developer, please have a look at the Python Dev Guide.

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