We have opened up the early-bird sales today and tickets are selling fast. The first 100 early-bird tickets, we have available, will be gone in an hour. If you want to benefit from reduced ticket prices too, please register soon.

Our early bird ticket sales are limited to 300 tickets. Regular ticket sales will start shortly after we’ve ended the early bird sales.

More Information and Ticket Shop

PS: Remember to submit your proposals for the conference. There are less than two weeks left.

With gravitational regards,
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EuroPython 2016 Team

After the Call for Proposals for EuroPython 2016 last week, we are now calling out to everyone interested in signing up as EuroPython attendee early. You will be able to benefit from reduced ticket prices for a short period of time.

Our early bird ticket sales are limited to 300 tickets. Regular sales start shortly after we’ve ended the early bird sales.

More Information and Ticket Shop

We will be opening the flood gates on Tuesday, 23.02.2016, 09:00 CET, so set your alarms to make sure you can secure your ticket. Experience shows that early bird tickets sell out quickly.

PS: Remember to submit your proposals for the conference. There are less than two weeks left.

With gravitational regards,
–
EuroPython 2016 Team

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.

Submit your proposal!

Submissions will be open until Sunday, March 6, 23:59:59 CET.

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 (ca. 50% of the talk slots)
  • 45 minutes (ca. 50% of the talk slots)
  • 60 minutes (only ca. 5 slots)

  depending on your preference and scheduling constraints. A Q&A session is held at the end of the talk and included in the time slot.

• 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    NEW in 2016

  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 2016 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    NEW in 2016

  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 2016

There will be a as satellite event at this year’s conference. Please submit your papers for PyData through the EuroPython form, make sure to select “PyData” as sub community in the form. PyData will take place in at the same time as EuroPython 2016, the exact date will be announced soon.

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 training should, in general, be held in English.

However, since EuroPython is hosted in Bilbao and EuroPython has traditionally always been very open to the local Python communities, we are also accepting a number of talks and trainings in Spanish and Basque.

The talk submission form lets you choose the language you want to give the talk in.

If you speak Basque/Spanish and don’t feel comfortable speaking English, please submit the talk title and abstract directly in Spanish/Basque. If you are able to give the talk in multiple languages, please submit one proposals for the talk in each language, with title and description adjusted accordingly. Please note that tags are only available 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 our EuroPython 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.

Contact

For further questions, feel free to contact our Program WG Helpdesk

With gravitational regards,
–
EuroPython 2016 Team

We are pleased to announce the launch of our all new EuroPython 2016 website. Over the last few weeks, we have been busy talking to sponsors and getting the website prepared for the launch.

You may have heard about the recent direct observation of gravitational waves by the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory). What you may not know is that Python helped in analyzing the data (archive.org), so we now have two things to celebrate:

1. Python’s use in this phenomenal direct proof of Einstein’s prediction and
2. the launch of our 2016 edition of the EuroPython conference.
   

So here it is:

https://ep2016.europython.eu/

Many thanks go to our launch sponsors who have signed up early to give us that extra boost in motivation to get the conference and it’s website set up.

Meet our Launch Sponsors

• Bilbao Ekintza
• Intel
  
• UPV/EHU
• Udemy
  
• Python Software Foundation
  
• Blue Yonder
• JetBrains
• Numberly
• Flying Circus
• Limejump
• RedHat
• Vzzual.com
• Django-CMS
• Riverbank

PS: We’d like to thank the EuroPython Web WG  for the web site improvements and our friends at Python Italia for making their code available.

With gravitational regards,
–
EuroPython 2016 Team

The EuroPython 2016 Team is pleased to account the dates for EuroPython 2016 in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain:

Sunday, July 17 - Sunday, July 24 2016

Pre-launch Website

To keep you updated, we have put together a pre-launch website for the conference:

The URL to bookmark for the 2016 conference is http://ep2016.europython.eu/

Beginners’ Day

You may wonder why we’re having an extra day for the conference. Here’s the plan:

In 2015, we introduced Beginners’ Day as a new format to EuroPython providing special introductions and tutorials for Python beginners. The project was a great success.

For the 2016 edition, we are planning to dedicate Sunday before the main conference as Beginner’s Day, so we’ll have the following conference layout:

• Sunday, July 17: Beginners’ day & registration
• Monday, July 18 - Friday, July 22: Main conference & trainings
• Saturday, July 23 - Sunday, July 24: Sprints

Looking for Launch Sponsors

We will launch the conference website in December. If your company would like to sponsor EuroPython 2016 and get extra attention by being one of our launch sponsors, please check our sponsor page for details.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2016 Team

Thanks to our Media Work Group (WG) and especially Anthon and Luis, the conference videos are now cut, edited and uploaded to our YouTube channel as well as our archive.org collection.

A total of 173 talk videos were processed, so there’s a lot of interesting content to watch. The talk videos are also embedded into the talk pages referenced in our session list for easy navigation.

Two short examples from the popular lightning talks sessions:

Storing acorns

The -ish library

These are some short links for easy access:

• europython.tv - for our YouTube channel
• ep2015.europython.tv - for the EuroPython 2015 playlist
  
• archive.europython.tv - for our archive.org collection
  

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2015 Team

EuroPython is now over and was a great success thanks to everyone who helped make it happen.

Unfortunately, we did not properly acknowledge all the volunteers who were working on the event during the closing session and we would like to apologize for this, so here’s the full list of all volunteers from the EuroPython 2015 Workgroups and the on-site volunteers:

EuroPython 2015 is almost over and so it’s time to ask around for what we can improve next year. If you attended EuroPython 2015, please take a few moments and fill out our feedback form:

EuroPython 2015 Feedback Form

We will leave the feedback form online for a few weeks and then use the information as basis for the work on EuroPython 2016 and also post a summary of the multiple choice questions (not the comments to protect your privacy) on our website. Many thanks in advance.

Helping with EuroPython 2016

If you would like to help with EuroPython 2016, we invite you to join the EuroPython Workgroups. To apply please send an email to board@europython.eu with your details and how you think you could help.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython Society

We would like to ask all speakers at EuroPython to upload their talk slides to the EuroPython 2015 website. The attendees will love you for it :-)

For Speakers

Uploading is easy:

• Log in to the website
• Go to your talk page
• Click on “Edit“ button,
• Near the end of the edit dialog, there’s a “Slides” section where you can select the PDF to upload.
• Click “Save” and you’re done.

Thank you !

For Attendees

If you want to find the talk slides for a talk, please go to the talk page and find the “Download” button to access the slides.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2015 Team

We would like to draw your attention to the following sessions by the EuroPython Society and the Python Software Foundation, two of our Python community organizations working for you.

EuroPython Society Sessions

The EuroPython Society (EPS) is organizing the EuroPython conference series and working with the EuroPython Workgroups and the on-site teams to run EuroPython conferences.

Each year, we are running our General Assembly at the conference, reporting on our activities and, probably more interesting for many of you, a session to introduce the organization concepts we’re using to run these conferences.

• EPS General Assembly - Barria 1, 15:15
  

• EuroPython 2016 - Help us build the next edition ! - Barria 1, 14:30
  

Both sessions are open to all EuroPython attendees.

If you’d like to join us with the organization, please attend the EuroPython 2016 session. You can also become a member of the EPS and then vote at the General Assembly.

Python Software Foundation Session

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the organization behind Python itself. It holds the IP rights, runs PyCon US and tries to help the Python community world-wide to run events, user groups, workshops or Python related programming projects by giving out grants.

This year, we’re again having a PSF Members meeting at EuroPython, where the PSF reports on its activities, new plans and organizational changes.

• PSF Members Meeting - Barria 1, 18:00
  

The meeting is open to everyone, so if you want to learn more about the PSF activities, please join in.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2015 Team