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We received the very
sad news today, that Oier
Echaniz Beneitez has passed away, after a long-term illness (not
as a result of COVID-19).
Oier was one of
the initiators for bringing EuroPython to Bilbao in 2015 and
co-chaired the conference in both 2015 and 2016, together with
Fabio:
Oier
giving the EuroPython 2015 welcome speech together with Fabio
Pliger
He was one of the
most enthusiastic and engaged organizers of the conference, served on
the EuroPython Society board from 2015 - 2017 and founded and chaired
the local Python
organization in San Sebastian (PySS, pronounced “peace”).
Oier also started the pyjok.es
project, together with Alexandre Savio and Ben
Nuttall, inaugurating the first Python
Jokes-as-a-Service of its kind.
“Oier was an
exceptionally funny guy with a wonderful sense of humour. He was
kind, caring and considerate, and worked hard for PySS and
EuroPython. I have fond, happy memories of any time I spent with him
and know he’ll be greatly missed.” — Ben
Nuttall
“Oier put so
much enthusiasm in everything we did, in our first quests together
and then doing all the activities of ACPySS. He was not only an
active member of the Python community but also very involved in the
local cancer research and care community. We knew his end was going
to come sooner rather than later, and these last 2 years have been
quite harsh on him. His amazing will to live was what kept him going
for so long and we are sure that the Python community motivated him
to keep on. Rest in PySS, my friend.” — Alexandre
Savio
Our
good friend: We’ll miss you!
May the good vibes and
pyntxos always be with you.
Thank you for all the good times, – Your friends from the EuroPython
community
The talk voting page lists all submitted proposals, including talks, helpdesks and posters. The proposals are sorted in random order.
In order to vote, have a look at the title/abstract and then indicate your personal interest in attending this session. We have simplified the voting process and you may choose between these four options:
must see
want to see
maybe
not interested
The talks you haven’t voted for are marked “No vote”. Your votes are automatically saved to the backend without the need to click on a save or submit button.
Who can participate?
Any registered attendee of the current EuroPython (*) as well as any attendee of one of the past EuroPython conferences going back to 2015 can vote. If you have submitted a proposal this year, you are also eligible to vote.
Talk Selection
After the talk voting phase, the EuroPython Program Workgroup (WG) will use the votes to select the talks and build a schedule.
The talk voting is a good and strong indicator what attendees are interested to see. Submissions are also selected based on editorial criteria to e.g. increase diversity, give a chance to less mainstream topics as well as avoid too much of the same topic.
In general, the Program WG will try to give as many speakers a chance to talk as possible. If speakers have submitted multiple talks, the one with the highest rating will most likely get selected.
(*) We will start ticket sales in the coming days to give you a chance to participate in talk voting as well.
Since we had started the CFP under the assumption of running an
in-person conference and are now switching EuroPython 2020 to an
online event, we will extend the CFP for another two weeks until
April 12, to give everyone who would like to participate in this new
format, a chance to submit a session proposal.
For the conference days, we are looking
for the following session types:
Talks of 35- or 45-minute duration
(including 3-5 minutes for Q&A)
Posters
Help desks / Panels / Interactive
sessions
We will give out free tickets to the
event for all selected speakers.
For posters, we are planning to
collect them on a gallery page, together with PDF versions to read
during the event. The speaker will then be available during the
poster session to answer questions and present more details using
screen sharing.
Help desks, panels and interactive
sessions will be run using virtual rooms we’ll make available
during the conference days.
We will also have lightning talks
for the online event, but those will be collected closer to the event
using a separate form or Google sheet - similar to how we run this at
the in-person conference.
For submitting sprints, please
check our sprints
page. Note that unlike the conference days, the
sprints day won’t require buying a ticket.
Let’s make this an
engaging event for everyone
Even though we’re running an online
event, our aim is to make the online event as engaging as possible,
so we will provide ways for direct interaction with the speakers
after their talk in separate virtual rooms and additionally a chat
system for asynchronous interaction.
The conference system will also allow
live polls and text or audio/video based Q&A sessions, so please
consider this when preparing your sessions and add any polls you’d
like to run in the submission notes section (“Additional
information for talk reviewers”).
The conference will be held between
09:00 CEST and 20:00 CEST on the two conference days. We will try to
schedule talks based on location and timezone of the speaker. Please
indicate your timezone in submission notes.
In the last two weeks, we have
discussed and investigated concepts around running this year’s
EuroPython conference as an online conference. We have looked at
conference tools, your feedback, drafted up ideas on what we can do to make the event interesting and what we can accomplish given our
limited resources.
Today, we are happy to announce that we
will be running
EuroPython 2020 from July 23 - 26
2020 as an online conference
We are planning the following
structure:
2 conference days with keynotes,
talks, lightning talks, poster session (Thursday and Friday)
2 sprint days with multiple sprint teams (Saturday and
Sunday)
Attending the conference days will
require a ticket, participating in the sprint days will be free.
We will publish additional information
on the new format as it becomes available. A few updates for today
(more details will follow in separate blog posts):
Call for Papers (CFP)
With the new plan in place, we will
extend and retarget the CFP
we had been running in the last three weeks to the online setup.
Please note that we will not have
training sessions at EuroPython 2020. We will have keynotes, 30 and
45-minute talks, panels, interactive sessions, as well as try to come up with a format for doing
posters and lightning talks.
Unlike for our in-person event,
speakers will get free tickets to the event, since we don’t have to
cover catering costs.
We need your help
Given that we had already put a lot of
work into the in-person event organization, a lot of which we’ll
now have to adapt or redo for the online set up in the few months
ahead of us, we will need more help from the community to make this
happen.
If you would like to help, please write
to board@europython.eu.
We are specifically looking for people with experience using online
conference tools to help host tracks during the conference days.
Sponsoring
As for the in-person event, we will
have sponsorship packages available for the online event as well.
Because the format is different, we’ll have to adjust the packages
we had intended for the in-person to an online setup.
If you are interested in sponsoring
EuroPython 2020, please write to sponsoring@europython.eu.
We will then send you more details, as they become available.
In our blog post on the COVID-19 last week, we were still hopeful that the situation would improve in time for the event in July. The last few days have shown us that we need to have a more realistic view on how things will develop in the coming months.
Right now, we are at a point in the conference organization where we have invested a lot of time into the preparation of the conference, but have not started ticket sales, entered sponsorship agreements or ordered conference and marketing material.
We also had discussions with the venue and caterer on possible options to address the risk of not being able to hold the event in July due to government regulations preventing indoor gatherings.
EuroPython 2021
In our EuroPython Society Board call last night, we discussed the situation, looked at the options and decided to take the offer of the venue to postpone the in-person conference to next year.
EuroPython 2021 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from July 26 - August 1.
How about a virtual EuroPython 2020 ?
Since we all love EuroPython, the community and good vibes coming from such gatherings, we are now considering turning this year’s EuroPython 2020 conference into a virtual event.
For this, we’d like to gather some feedback and have created a form for you to let us know what your thoughts are on such a virtual setup:
If we go for the virtual setup for EuroPython 2020, the dates will likely change a bit, so ticket sales will start a little later. For now, we will leave the EuroPython 2020 Call for Proposals (CfP) open. Please note that those talks will then have to be held from your notebook/desktop without face-to-face audience contact. On the other hand, many more people could join in, since there’s no travel involved. We will aim to make the virtual event as interactive as possible.
Code name: EuroPython Winter Edition
While we’re at it, we’d also like to use the form to gather some feedback on the idea to have a winter EuroPython event, one where we run a BarCamp/Sprint/Hackathon style setup in a smaller setting.
As you probably already know, the Coronavirus is spreading throughout Europe and we wanted to give you an update on our current plans around on the situation.
We will update this blog post as new information becomes available.
2020-03-17:
We have decided to move the in-person event to next year and are considering holding EuroPython 2020 as a virtual event. Please refer to our blog post for more details.
2020-03-12:
The number of cases in Ireland is still low compared to other countries, but the Irish government is already starting to put limited bans on larger indoor events.
Since EuroPython is planned for July 20-26, we are hopeful that the situation will have improved by then and continue the conference planning with the aim of having the conference on the planned date.
Should the conference need to be
canceled as a result of the official ban still being in effect in July, we will refund all tickets - even after the official refund cut-off date (June 19th). We are in discussion with the venue to explore options in case the conference has to be canceled, which we will share with you soon as we have any update.
Because the situation is very much in flux, we would recommend that you make booking arrangements with an option to cancel the booking closer to the event date.
We’re looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: all levels of programming from novice to advanced, applications, frameworks, data science, Python projects, internals or topics which you’re excited about, your experiences with Python and its ecosystem, creative or artistic things you’ve done with Python, to name a few.
EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your use of Python.
Since feedback shows that our audience is very interested in advanced topics, we’d appreciate more entries in this category for EuroPython 2020.
Please help spread word about Call for Proposals to anyone who might be interested. Thanks.
Our web WG worked hard on putting the finishing touches on the website and many other team members helped update the content.
We have ported the accounts from last year to the new website, so you should be able to login with last year’s details. That said, we’d recommend changing your password as best practice.
Please note that we have also updated the profile page, so after login you will be redirected to the profile page to make any necessary adjustments.
We are also considering to open early bird sales on Wednesday, March 11 at 12:00 CET. However, since we’re still waiting for the VAT ID registration, we won’t be able to produce invoices yet. Those will get delivered later when we have the VAT ID - much like in Edinburgh, where we had similar delays.
Ticket prices are already available on the registration page. Unlike in previous years, we are publishing all prices at once, so that you can get a better overview.
As you probably know, the Corona virus has hit Europe and we are closely monitoring the situation. We will publish separate blog posts on this topic. So far, we are hopeful that the situation will have calmed down by July.
We’re looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: all levels of programming from novice to advanced, applications, frameworks, data science, Python projects, internals or topics which you’re excited about, your experiences with Python and its ecosystem, creative or artistic things you’ve done with Python, to name a few.
EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your use of Python.
Since feedback shows that our audience is very interested in advanced topics, we’d appreciate more entries in this category for EuroPython 2020.
Please help spread word about Call for Proposals to anyone who might be interested. Thanks.
We’re pleased to announce our official conference logo for EuroPython 2020, July 20-26, in Dublin, Ireland:
The logo is inspired by the colors and symbols often associated with Ireland: the shamrock and the Celtic harp. It was again created by our designer Jessica Peña Moro from Simétriko, who had already helped us in previous years with the conference design.
Some more updates:
We’re working on launching the main website, the CFP and ticket sales in March.
We are also preparing the sponsorship packages and should have them ready early in March as well. Early bird sponsors will again receive a 10% discount on the package price. If you’re interested in becoming a launch sponsor, please contact our sponsor team at sponsoring@europython.eu.
