The Program work group (WG) has decided on the dates for the Call for Proposal (CFP) dates:

Monday, 2015-03-16 — Tuesday, 2015-04-14

You will be able to submit your proposals through the EuroPython website during these 4 weeks.

We have these types of presentations available for submission:

• Talks: 170 slots available (80x 30min, 85x 45min, 5x 60min)
  
• Trainings: 20 slots
• Posters: 25 slots
• Help desks: 5 slots

Please note that the exact number of submissions we can accept depends on schedule and room requirements, so the above numbers are only estimates. Talk times include time for questions.

The full Call for Proposal with all details will be made available on Monday, 2015-03-16. We are publishing these dates early because we’ve been getting a lot of requests for the CFP dates.

Talks/Trainings in Spanish and Basque

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.

All other talks/trainings should be held in English.

Talk voting

As in 2013, we will again have talk voting, which means that attendees who have already registered will get to see the talk submissions and can vote on them. 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.

The schedule will then be announced early in May.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2015 Team

We are very happy to announce that early-bird tickets are sold out!

The tickets were sold in less than a week!

We’d like to thank everyone for the fantastic feedback. Given the rush to the early-bird tickets (we sold 100 tickets in the first 4 hours), we recommend to not wait too long before getting your standard ticket. It is likely, we’ll sell out early again this year.

As announced we had temporarily closed the registration for a short while today and have now reopened it with the standard rate prices.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2015 Team

Last week has been very busy. We’ve launched the website, started the early-bird ticket sales and handled the first round of attendee questions with our brand new help desk system (based on django-helpdesk).

At the same time, we have been finalizing the budget for the conference, which now allows us to set the standard ticket prices for this year. We tried to keep student prices as low as possible, since we would like to see more students at the conference:

Student: EUR 120.00
Personal: EUR 340.00
Business: EUR 530.00

(incl. 10% Spanish VAT)

Early-bird tickets are nearly sold out but we still have a few left. If you want to save some money, you can still get these tickets at highly reduced prices.

After the early-bird tickets have sold out, we’ll close the registration for a short while and then reopen it with the standard prices. Given the rush to early-bird tickets, we expect the conference to sell out again this year, so don’t wait too long before getting one.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2015 Team

We have 350 early-bird tickets available. Half of those have been sold by now in an amazing rush to our registration page:

https://ep2015.europython.eu/en/registration/

We would like to thank everyone who bought a ticket and put trust in us to make the conference an interesting and inspiring event - even without knowing the talks and topics which will be covered in the conference.

We’d also like to apologize for the Paypal payment system not working yesterday. This is fixed, so you can use Paypal to pay your tickets if you don’t want to use a credit card.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2015 Team

As announced earlier today, we have opened the early-bird ticket sales for EuroPython 2015. You can save up to 25% on the early-bird tickets, so book your tickets while they last:

https://ep2015.europython.eu/en/registration/

We only have 350 early-bird tickets available and expect them to be sold out in just a few days.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2015 Team

We are pleased to announce the launch of our all new EuroPython 2015 website. Over the last few weeks, we have been very busy setting up the infrastructure, talking to sponsors, getting the logo designed and the site prepared for the launch. So here it is:

https://ep2015.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 ramped up in only 6 weeks:

Meet our Launch Sponsors

• Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
• Google
• Bilbao Ekintza
• UPV/EHU
• SkyAtlas
• Blue Yonder
• Continuum Analytics
• Python Anywhere
• ScrapingHub
• 1000mercis
• 2nd quadrant
• Yelp
• CodeSyntax
• Asmatu
• Hotel Ercilla
• Neurita
• Riverbank

But that’s not all. We’ve also prepared an extra bonus for you:

Early-bird Ticket Sales

Later today, at 14:00 CET, we will be starting the early-bird ticket sales. Set your alarms for right after lunch to grab your tickets. We only have 350 early-bird tickets available and experience shows that they will be sold out fast.

PS: We’d like to thank our friends at Python Italia for making the EuroPython website code used for 2011-2013 available for us to use.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2015 Team

We are pleased to announce our first keynote speaker for EuroPython 2015:

Python’s creator: Guido van Rossum

Guido will give a keynote and a more technical talk about the new type hinting proposal for Python 3.5 that’s currently being discussed as PEP 483 (The Theory of Type Hints) and PEP 484 (Type Hints).

Enjoy,
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EuroPython Society

For EuroPython 2015 we have chosen to use a new code of conduct (CoC) that is based on the PyCon UK Code of Conduct.

We think that it reads much nicer than the one we had before, while serving the same purpose. In summary:

Be nice to each other

We trust that attendees will treat each other in a way that reflects the widely held view that diversity and friendliness are strengths of our community to be celebrated and fostered.

Furthermore, we believe attendees have a right to:

• be treated with courtesy, dignity and respect;
• be free from any form of discrimination, victimization, harassment or bullying;
• enjoy an environment free from unwelcome behavior, inappropriate language and unsuitable imagery.

Here’s the permanent link to the CoC for 2015:

EuroPython 2015 - Code of Conduct

We’d like to thank the PyCon UK organizers for their work on the CoC and for putting it under a CC license.

Thanks,
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EuroPython Society

After a creative and inspiring Friday afternoon, we are pleased to announce our EuroPython 2015 landing page:

http://ep2015.europython.eu/

This will be the URL for EuroPython 2015 - definitely worth a bookmark, we think :-)

Enjoy,
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EuroPython Society

Companies who would like to sign up as a EuroPython 2015 launch sponsor are encouraged to contact the sponsor work group at:

sponsoring@europython.eu

Launch sponsors will get the additional benefit of being listed on the website when we launch - for free. You just need to be quick, since the launch is planned for early in February.

More Booths and more Sponsor Slots

The Euskalduna Conference Center and Concert Hall (ECC) venue in Bilbao was chosen as conference venue for EuroPython 2015. It offers plenty of room for sponsor booths, so we will try to make EuroPython 2015 as effective as possible for you as sponsors by offering more booth space and sponsor slots than ever before.

This is your chance to reach out to more than a thousand enthusiastic and highly motivated EuroPython attendees !

Please email us and we’ll send you the sponsor brochure.

Thanks,
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EuroPython Society (EPS)