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There is plenty to see in and around Bilbao. We have worked out a set of interesting tours, together with a local tour company to choose from, for partners and EuroPython attendees alike:
Having received over 300 great proposals for talks, trainings, helpdesks and posters, we now call out to all attendees
to vote for what you want to see on the conference schedule.
You can search for topics and communicate your personal priorities by casting your vote for each submission on our talk voting page:
In short, we will be giving out grants in three categories:
Ticket discounts
Free tickets
Travel costs and accommodation
Anyone who wants to attend EuroPython 2015 can apply, including people who have already purchased tickets. We want to make the event affordable for as many people as possible.
Looking for financial aid sponsors
We are still looking for sponsors to increase the budget we have available for financial aid. If your company would like to sign up as financial aid sponsor, please contact the sponsors team.
We are pleased to announce our next keynote speakers: Ola Sitarska and Ola Sendecka, who kicked off Django Girls with a workshop at EuroPython 2014 last year. Since then the idea has spread around the globe to over 20 countries.
Django Girls
Django Girls is an non-profit oriented organization that empowers and helps women to organize free, one-day programming workshops by providing tools, resources and support.
The Keynote
It’s Dangerous To Go Alone, Take This: The Power of a Community
Ola and Ola will take you on a fantastic journey to the magical world of little Liz, who is totally enchanted by technology. The story of Liz will show that with a little bit of magic, curiosity, courage and hard work, you can defeat all the obstacles standing in your way. You’ll discover with her that making big and scary things is easier when you’re not doing them alone. Because sometimes, one magical spell, the helpful hand of a friend or this shiny sparkle is all it takes to make a dent in one’s universe.
Ola Sitarska is a Django Developer at Potato. She started working with Django 6 years ago, when she discovered the power of Django admin and quickly fell in love with the beauty of Python. Last year, Ola started Django Girls, an initiative to inspire more women to become programmers. Together with Ola Sendecka, she also co-authored the Django Girls Tutorial, which has been visited by more than 30.000 people so far. She is also a member of the Django Team and was responsible for the shipping djangoproject.com redesign. In 2015, she became a Django Software Foundation board member. Ola is also known as A Person With The Django Circus Idea™. She thinks her superpower is the unstoppable enthusiasm.
Ola Sendecka is a Python & Django enthusiast and magic maker. She currently works for Potato in London as a Django developer. She loves open-source and she thinks one can open source much, much more than a piece of code. Together with Ola Sitarska she founded Django Girls last year. For her Django Girls is - as she says - an example of open sourcing community and one of the ways to make Python community even better than it is now. Apart from Django Girls Core operations and organising events, she is also a serial Django Girls coach (and she loves teaching!) and Django sprint organizer. She is a Django Team Core member and member of Django Software Foundation. Ola also co-organized Django Con EU 2013 (Circus edition).
The Workshop
At this year’s conference, we will again be hosting a Django Girls workshop. Please see the workshop website for details on how to sign up as an attendee, coach, or support the workshop as sponsor.
PS: Ola & Ola had already confirmed back in February. Thanks to them for their support in keeping this secret for such a long time :-)
We are happy to announce that we will be hosting a Django Girls Workshop during EuroPython 2015. It will take place on 20th of July, the first day of the conference.
We believe in the work that this group is doing to bring more women into technology, and we will work towards making EuroPython 2015 enjoyable and welcoming
for these beginner programmers.
The workshop is free of charge and you must register through their registration form; some financial aid for travel to Bilbao can be provided. The application process closes on May 31st, 2015.
The workshop is organized and coached by volunteers. If you or your company would like to contribute by sponsoring, coaching, or any other help you can provide, please email the organizers at bilbao@djangogirls.org.
Now is your chance to become a speaker at EuroPython !
EuroPython is the largest Python conference in Europe, providing you with an ideal platform to let the Python community know about your ideas, projects and thoughts.
Don’t be shy and submit your talks. We’d especially like to encourage first time speakers to submit their talks.
After today’s posting, it became apparent that we have made a mistake in communicating the issue properly. We’re sorry for this, would like to apologize and hope to do better this time around.
completely out of touch with the Python community and its values
Actions taken
Manuel Graña was removed from the EuroPython 2015 team right after we had found out about the issue (on April 3rd), first as temporary step to start investigating and later as permanent action.
Apology from the EuroPython 2015 Team
We are really sorry for what has happened and our failed initial attempt to address the issue this morning.
The podcast should have been properly reviewed by the communications team before going live to not create the impression that we as EuroPython 2015 Team approve of such opinions and statements. We’d have taken action right after the review, instead of having other community members make us aware of the breach of our CoC.
The fact that an organizer of the team made such comments is particularly alarming. We’d sincerely like to apologize for this.
Apology from the ACPySS
(English) On the behalf of EP2015 organizers, we would like to sincerely apologize. We are sorry that this was said. It was completely wrong. Manuel, the person who made such poorly worded statements, had been removed from the organization team as soon as were reported the issue. This decision was shared and taken by Manuel himself. You can see a related tweet by one of the organizers here: https://twitter.com/alex_savio/status/583762837971042304
(Español) Nos gustaría pedir nuestras más sinceras disculpas en el nombre de la organización del EP2015. Lamentamos mucho lo que se dijo y estuvo completamente fuera de lugar. Manuel, la persona que hizo esas declaraciones, se retiró del equipo de organización tan pronto como se informó al respecto. Esta decisión fue compartida y tomada por el propio Manuel. Se puede ver un tweet relacionado de su marcha aquí: https://twitter.com/alex_savio/status/583762837971042304
(Euskara) EP2015 antolatzaileen izenean barkamena eskatu nahi dizuegu. Barkatu azken hitzak gure ahotik irten izanak. Ez ziren aproposak izan. Hitz ez egoki hauek esan zituen pertsona Manuel izan zen. Aipatu behar dugu elkarrizketa gertatu eta hurrengo egunean antolakuntzatik kanpo geratzea erabaki zuela. Erabakiaren berri antolakuntzako beste kide batek idatzitako tweet honetan ikus daiteke: https://twitter.com/alex_savio/status/583762837971042304
Help us do better in the future
EuroPython is created and run by volunteers and everybody is welcome to join and help make EuroPython a better and more welcoming conference. We need your help to improve every aspect of EuroPython, if you can help us please sign up for one of our EuroPython Workgroups.
Thanks
We’d like to thank Yamila Moreno for the transcript and everyone who pointed out our mistakes.
We have been made aware of a possible controversy around a recent interview given by some of the on-site team organizers from the ACPySS (Python San Sebastian) to the “Python en español” podcast.
In one section of the interview, addressing ways of improving the Python community, one of the organizers, Manuel Graña, makes statements which can be interpreted in many ways, one of those interpretations being that he feels that DjangoGirls and similar groups are different than the rest of the Python community.
We have addressed this issue with the ACPySS to find out what was really meant with the statements.
It turned out that the statements used in the interview were, unfortunately, very poorly worded. Manuel wanted to raise the valid question why we need separate organizations to address interests of different groups in the community instead of trying to get the community at large to welcome everyone in the same way.
The ACPySS organizers and specifically Manuel himself are very sorry for the misinterpretations and would like to apologize to everyone who felt offended by the podcast.
EuroPython has always been a very open minded conference and we’ve always supported activities which help grow the community, reach out to new community members and help them feel comfortable within the Python community.
We will strive to pay more attention to possible misinterpretations in the future, to avoid unnecessarily offending people.
For EuroPython 2015 we are already in negotiations with DjangoGirls for a workgroup, with the Raspberry Pi Education program and have reached out to PyLadies to participate as well. More exciting news on this is coming soon.
At the same time, we would like to emphasize that everyone working hard to make EuroPython happen is doing this based on good intentions. Just like we ask the attendees to be nice to each other, we also expect the EuroPython organizers to be treated with the same underlying respect and assumption of having good intentions.
Please all remember that we are one Python community and we should act as such, regardless of backgrounds, views, affiliations or motivations. If we want to move Python forward, we have to do this together.
EuroPython would not be possible and as affordable as it is without the help of our sponsors.
Reach out to 1200+ attendees in Europe
If your company is using Python, sells a product or service in the Python space or looking to hire excellent Python programmers, we would like to ask you to consider EuroPython 2015 as your platform to reach out to 1200+ attendees from all around the world, with special focus on Europe.
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 from Monday, March 16, until Tuesday, April 14.
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.
First time speakers are especially welcome.
There are four different kinds of contributions that you can present at EuroPython:
Regular talk / 170 slots.
These are standard “talks with slides”, allocated in slots of
30 minutes (80 slots)
45 minutes (85 slots)
60 minutes (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.
Hands-on training / 20 slots.
These are advanced training sessions to dive into the subject with all details. These sessions are 2.5 - 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 two trainings rooms is 70 and 180 seats.
Posters / 25 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 / 5 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. People looking for help will sign up for a 30 minute slot, get there and talk to you. There is no specific preparation needed; you just need to be proficient in the technology you run the helpdesk for.
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 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 to submitters of posters or helpdesk proposals.
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
Network Programming
Open Source Python projects
Packaging Issues
Programming Tools
Project Best Practices
Embedding and Extending
Education, Science and Math
Web-based Systems
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.
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 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
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.
