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We are eager to learn about different python applications and encourage participation from different fields. There is value in differences and EuroPython is an opportunity to exchange skills and knowledge, to face common challenges.
We would like to encourage network and transfer of knowledge among academia, companies and all individuals interested in Python. For this purpose, this year EuroPython extends the special rate for students to postdoctoral researchers. Check out also all our regular rates, now available for sale on our website.
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 3 categories:
Free and discounted ticket: get a standard ticket for the conference for free (including access to talks, trainings, sprints, etc.)
Travel costs: we will cover the travel costs pro rata, depending on what you are applying for.
Accommodation: we can partially cover the accommodation costs
Grant Eligibility
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.
If you have any questions, please read the FAQ or send an e-mail to finaid@europython.eu
Timeline
April 10th (2017-04-10) - open the finance aid grant opportunity April 24th (2017-04-24) - the deadline for submitting the applications April 30th (2017-04-30) - applicants will be notified by e-mail May 6th (2017-05-06) - deadline for applicants to accept the grant May 14th (2017-05-14) - applicants will receive confirmation notification
Refund management
Free ticket: the individual coupons will be generated for a free ticket. Accommodation and Travel grant: all grants involving reimbursements will be reimbursed by PayPal or bank transfer. Please send us your receipts (hotel invoice, plane/bus/train ticket) before the conference to approval.
Become a special Diversity sponsor!
You or your company can support our finaid initiative by becoming a sponsor. We have a special events “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. Check the sponsor brochure for more information and contact finaid@europython.eu or the sponsor work group directly sponsoring@europython.eu.
Bring a new sponsor and get a free ticket for EuroPython 2017!
You can now buy regular tickets for Europe’s largest Python conference.
After the early bird tickets sold out in just eight hours, standard rate tickets are now available:
Student: EUR 130.- incl. VAT (only available for students and postdocs; please bring your student card) Personal: EUR 375.- incl. VAT (for people enjoying Python from home) Business: EUR 555.- excl. VAT / 677.10 incl. VAT (for people using Python to make a living)
PS: please remember to submit your proposals for the conference. There are only a few days left for submission. The deadline is (Easter) Sunday, April 16th.
Tickets for EuroPython will be sold in three phases:
First, we’ll have a short early-bird ticket phase, where we’ll sell tickets at a very low rate. Only 200 tickets will be available for this rate, so be quick. It usually takes just a few days for them to sell out.
We’ll then switch to the regular rates, and closer to the conference, to the on-desk rates.
You can get tickets for the whole week, if you don’t want to miss anything, or buy day passes at the on-desk rates in July to attend only one or two days.
We further offer three different rates: ‘students’ (including PhD and postdoc researchers), ‘personal’ and ‘business’ passes (for companies). Speakers and trainers will benefit of special discounts (see Call for Proposals for further details).
Take this opportunity and get your ticket now! Prices will increase the closer we get to the event.
We are starting ticket sales tomorrow and, as is tradition, we have allocated a number of tickets to be sold at very low rates - in fact you can save between 40-50%
on these early-bird rates, compared to the regular ticket prices.
Sales at the early-bird rate will open tomorrow, April 4th, at 10:00 CEST.
We will have 200 tickets available at the early-bird rate and they usually sell out within a few days, so be sure to get yours quickly. Regular ticket sales will then commence shortly after the early-bird phase.
Please see our registration page for full details:
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.
Submissions will be open until Sunday, April 16, 23:59:59 CEST.
Please note that we will not have a second call for proposals as we
did in 2016, so if you want to enter a proposal, please consider to do
this in the next few days.
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.
There are four different kinds of contributions that you can present at EuroPython:
Regular Talk / approx. 150 slots
These are standard “talks with slides”, allocated in slots of
30 minutes
45 minutes
60 minutes
The Q&A session, if present, is included in the time slot. 3-5 Minutes for Q&A is a good practice. Please chose a time slot you see fit best to make your presentation in a compact way (So the audience may follow along but is not bored).
We will only have a limited number of 60 minute slots available, so please only choose these slots for more in-depth sessions or topics which require more background information.
Trainings / 20 slots.
Deep-dive into a subject with all details. These sessions are 2.5 - 3.5 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 two trainings rooms is 70 and 180 seats.
Panels
A panel is 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 60-90 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. If you have any questions or if you want to discuss an idea for a panel upfront, please feel free to contact the Program WG to discuss.
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. If you want to discuss an idea upfront, please feel free to contact the Program WG to discuss.
Posters / approx. 30 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 / 10 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.
Tracks
You may suggest your submission for a track. Tracks are groups of talks, covering the same domain (e.g. Django), all in the same room in a row. You may choose one of these specialized tracks:
Business Track (running a business, being a freelancer)
Django Track
Educational Track
Hardware/IoT Track
Science Track
Web Track
PyData @ EuroPython 2017
There will be a PyData track at this year’s conference. Please submit your papers for the PyData track through the EuroPython form and make sure to select “PyData” as sub community in the form.
Discounts for speakers and trainers
Since EuroPython is a not-for-profit community conference, it is not possible to pay out rewards for talks or trainings. Speakers of regular talks, panels, posters and interactive will instead have a special 25% discount on the conference ticket. Trainings get a 100% discount to compensate for the longer preparation time. Please note that we can not give discounts for helpdesks.
Topics and Goals
Suggested topics for EuroPython presentations include, but are not limited to:
Core Python
Alternative Python implementations: e.g. Jython, IronPython, PyPy, and Stackless
Python libraries and extensions
Python 2 to 3 migration
Databases
Documentation
GUI Programming
Game Programming
Hardware (Sensors, RaspberryPi, Gadgets,…)
Network Programming
Open Source Python projects
Packaging
Programming Tools
Project Best Practices
Embedding and Extending
Education, Science and Math
Web-based Systems
Use Cases
Failures and Mistakes
Presentation goals are usually some of the following:
Introduce the audience to a new topic
Introduce the audience to new developments on a well-known topic
Show the audience real-world usage scenarios for a specific topic (case study)
Dig into advanced and relatively-unknown details on a topic
Compare different solutions available on the market for a topic
Language for Talks & Trainings
Talks and trainings should, in general, be held in English.
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 ourEuroPython Code of Conduct.
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.
Release agreement for submissions
All submissions will be made public during the community talk voting, to allow all registrants to discuss the proposals. After finalizing the schedule, talks that are not accepted will be removed from the public website. Accepted submissions will stay online for the foreseeable future.
We also ask all speakers/trainers to:
accept the video recording of their presentation
upload their talk materials to the EuroPython website
accept the EuroPython Speaker Release Agreement which allows the EPS to make the talk recordings and uploaded materials available under a CC BY-NC-SA license
To simplify the organization, we ask all speakers and trainers to accept the video recording and publishing of their session. All talks will be recorded. Whether trainings will be recorded as well, is not yet clear. Please contact our Program WG Helpdesk for details, if you would rather not like your training to be recorded.
Talk slides will be made available on the EuroPython web site. Talk video recordings will be uploaded to the EuroPython YouTube channel and archived on archive.org.
For more privacy related information, please consult our privacy policy.
Thinking of giving your contribution to EuroPython? Starting from March 27th you can submit a proposal 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.
We offer a variety of different contribution formats that you can present at EuroPython: from regular talks to panel discussions, from trainings to posters; if you have ideas to promote real-time human-to-human-interaction or want to run yourself a helpdesk to answer other people’s python questions, this is your chance.
Blue sea. Yellow sand. EuroPython goes to Rimini 2017 with a brand new logo. Colourful waves play with beach umbrellas to shape the foundation symbol with different patterns that visually immerse us in our new location, one of the most popular sea places in Italy. New place, new dates, new style and colours. Same spirit as before.
Training sessions, an enthusiastic line-up of keynote speakers from around the world, opportunities for sponsors and much more.
While waiting for the new website launch, save the dates and join us in Rimini, Italy, from 9th to 16th July for a new edition of EuroPython.
Conference tickets will allow attending Beginners’ Day, keynotes,
talks, trainings, poster sessions, interactive sessions, panels and
sprints.
Please subscribe to our various EuroPython channels for updates on the conference. We will start putting out more information about the conference in the coming days.
