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We have 131 videos available in total, covering a very broad set of Python topics, so there’s going to be something interesting for everyone.
We hope to see you all again next year and perhaps even have a few more people attending EuroPython 2021 Online, now that the format has proven successful. Stay safe.
In the last few weeks, we had a close look at the how the situation around COVID-19 is panning out. Unfortunately, things are not moving in a direction where we’d feel confident to hold next year’s conference as an in-person event in Dublin.
EuroPython 2022 in Dublin
After discussion with the venue, we decided to postpone the in-person conference for another year, to July 11-17 2022 in Dublin, Ireland. We are currently finalizing the details.
Since going online has proven to work well, we also want to keep the momentum for EuroPython 2022 and are planning to run the event in a hybrid version, where both speakers and attendees can optionally join online.
EuroPython 2021 Online
Given the experience with running EuroPython 2020 online this year, we are sure that EuroPython 2021 will be a success as well.
We will take the experience we’ve gained from this year’s event to improve the online version next year, simplify some aspects, reactivate finaid and enable joining it in smaller groups to create a distributed experience.
We’re still collecting ideas, so if you have any suggestions, we’d love to hear them. Please write to helpdesk@europython.eu.
we want to try a new experiment and run an “Ask me Anything” (AMA) this Thursday to answer questions you may have, share our knowledge or help you in planning your online event.
Some of the topics we can cover:
our tools research and findings
our concepts for running an online conference or event
our experience with running EuroPython online
what we could do to support you
how our Zoom license sharing works
how you can apply for a grant
how the EuroPython Society works
how we run the EuroPython organization with fully remote work groups
and, of course, anything else :-)
If you’re interested in joining the call, please send your name and email to helpdesk@europython.eu and we’ll send you the invite for the call on
Thursday, Sept 24, starting at 19:30 CEST.
When requesting the invite, please also consider adding any more detailed questions, so we can better prepare and make the meeting more effective.
If there is demand, we’ll probably have these calls on a monthly basis to keep the momentum going.
BTW: We are making our conference resources available on our website, in case you have missed our blog post earlier this year.
Over the next few days/weeks, we’ll keep releasing more videos in batches. We are working on over 130 videos in total, so please stop by and check the playlist for more videos, or subscribe to our YouTube channel.
We’re happy to announce the public availability of the live stream recordings from EuroPython 2020. They were already available to all conference attendees since the sprint days.
What we are releasing today are unedited videos recorded for the main track rooms and days. The poster track recordings will be added today or tomorrow.
You can use the schedule to navigate the videos. Linking to a specific time in the videos can be done by right-clicking in the video to create a URL which points to the current position:
Feel free to share interesting links on social media.
Edited Videos
Our video editing company is already busy creating the cut videos. Those should be ready in a month or two.
EuroPython 2020 will be held online from July 23-26 2020. If you want to learn more about the online setup, please check the Setup section on our website.
After buying a ticket, please register on our Discord server, following the instructions in the order confirmation email.
You will even be able to buy tickets on the days themselves, however, please be aware that this may cause delays in your Discord signup.
Our designer Jessica has created a beautiful conference booklet for you to use during the conference and keep as a memory afterwards. It provides all details, schedule, keynotes, sponsor listings, etc. in a single PDF.
We’d normally give out the booklet as part of the conference bag, but since we’re running the event online, we’ve put up the PDF of the booklet instead for your to enjoy.
If you feel like there something in our program which you may benefit from or you just want to get a feeling for what a EuroPython conference is like, please consider joining the event.
Tickets still available
Even though we have surpassed the 900 tickets mark already, we still have tickets available, both in form of the paid conference & sprint tickets as well as the free sprints-only tickets.
We are very pleased to have Bloomberg as Diamond Sponsor for EuroPython 2020.
Without sponsors like Bloomberg, we wouldn’t be able to make the event affordable.
You will be able to visit their sponsor exhibit rooms and take the opportunity to chat with their staff to learn more about the large Python eco-system they have built internally and how they are collaborating with the Python community.
Please find below a hosted blog post from Bloomberg.
Bloomberg
is building the world’s most trusted information network for
financial professionals. Our 6,000+ engineers are dedicated to
advancing and building new systems for the Bloomberg Terminal to
solve complex, real-world problems. We trust our teams to choose the
right technologies and programming languages for the job, and, at
Bloomberg, the answer is often Python. We employ an active community
of more than 2,000 Python developers who have their hands in
everything from financial analytics and data science to contributing
to open source technologies like Project
Jupyter.
Within
the company, Python is a truly community-driven effort. To make
Python useful within the context of Bloomberg’s financial software,
engineers across the organization contributed modules, which expose
existing Bloomberg libraries and facilities to the Python language.
Today, our Python Infrastructure team is responsible for supporting
all of our Python engineers and providing critical infrastructure and
libraries to make sure everyone across the firm has a top-notch
experience programming in Python. This team provides a cross-platform
Python runtime, exposes core Bloomberg libraries and facilities, and
works closely with our Python Guild to empower and support our
internal Python community. In addition, our Developer Experience
(DevX) team works hand-in-hand with the Python Guild to create and
maintain packaging and deployment tools and best practices to enhance
our engineers’ productivity.
A
number of our engineers are active contributors to the Python
community (and regular speakers at Python conferences worldwide). At
Bloomberg, you’ll find multiple PSF Fellows, a CPython core
developer, as well as maintainers
of numerous open source Python projects, including virtualenv
and auditwheel
(PyPA), tox (PyPI),
mplfinance
(matplotlib utilities for the visualization, and visual analysis, of
financial data), and bqplot,
an interactive plotting and charting library intended to be used with
Jupyter notebooks and ipywidgets.
We also employ two members of the Project Jupyter Steering Council,
both of whom were recognized with the ACM Software System Award in
2017. One of our software engineers and data scientists has also
written a book on data science, Python and Pandas. Bloomberg has also
published and maintains a number of open source projects developed
with Python, including attrs-strict
and PowerfulSeal.
Don’t
miss the talks that a couple of our Python engineers will be giving
during this year’s EuroPython 2020 Online:
Bloomberg
is proud to support the Python community. Not only are we corporate
sponsors of the Python Software Foundation and numFOCUS, but we are
also regular sponsors of conferences such as PyCon US and EuroPython,
PyBay, PyGotham, SciPy. We have also hosted PyLondinium
and the CPython Core Developer Sprint at our office in London, as
well as Open Source Weekends and PyPA sprint events around the globe
to improve Python packaging tools.
We are excited to have Microsoft as our Keystone Sponsor for EuroPython 2020.
Microsoft has been a regular sponsor of EuroPython and is a great supporter of Python in general. Thanks, Microsoft !
You will be able to visit their sponsor exhibit rooms and take the opportunity to chat with their staff to learn more about the Python eco-system they have created.
Please find below a hosted blog post from Microsoft.
Microsoft’s
Python team loves EuroPython, including this year’s online version!
EuroPython is something we look forward
to every single year. The Python community is vibrant, diverse, and
inclusive, and we love that we can help make EuroPython happen and
bring the community together, in a unique, online, way this year.
Python is widely used at many different
teams at Microsoft, e.g. the Office team writes Machine Learning
services in Python, the Bing team analyzes logs with Python, the
Azure team generates documentation with Python, and our device teams
build firmware with Python. Moreover, millions of our customers rely
on our tools and platforms for their Python codebases. We are
invested in Python for the long term, and we want to help the Python
community grow as more people learn that they too can build their own
software.
In Visual Studio Code, the
popular, free, cross-platform editor with support for Python, we’ve
added the ability to natively
edit Jupyter notebooks allowing you to work with Python code and
interactive notebooks in the same workspace.
