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In the last couple of weeks we have put together a pre-launch site for EuroPython 2020, which has all the information around the event, as we currently know and can share with you.
The main website will go online around early in March and we plan to also open the CFP and ticket sales around that time. It will use the same URL, so you can keep this bookmarked.
Some additional updates:
We have signed the venue agreement, so if you have waited with your flight and hotel bookings for the final confirmation of the conference dates, you can now go ahead. Looking at the hotel booking websites, it’s probably a good idea to book early.
We will now enter negotiations with the booth builder and finalize the sponsorship packages. As last year, we’ll again offer an early bird 10% discount for sponsors who sign up in the first few weeks after we’ve published the finalized packages on our blog.
After a work intense RFP over two months with more than 40 venues competing, 18 first round entries, and two rounds of refinements, we are now happy to announce the winner:
EuroPython 2020 will be held at the CCD in Dublin, Ireland, from July 20 - 26 2020
We will now start work on the contracts and get the organization going, so that we can all enjoy another edition of EuroPython next year.
We are happy to announce that we have started the RFP for venues to host the EuroPython 2020 conference.
We have sent out the details to more than 40 venues.
Like last year, we also want to give the chance to other venues who were not on our list to participate in the RFP. For this purpose, we are making the details available in this blog post as well.
RFP Introduction
The EuroPython Society is the organization behind the EuroPython conference, the largest Python programming language conference in Europe, with more than 1100 professionals from IT, science and educational fields attending to learn about new developments, network and learn from experience of others in the field.
Python is a very popular open source programming language, with a large following in the web development and data science fields.
EuroPython was initiated in 2002, with the first conference in Charleroi, Belgium, and has since toured Europe for a total of 18 editions so far. For EuroPython 2020 we are looking for a new location and venue and are reaching out to potential venues.
If you’d like to participate in this process, please have a look at the RFP spreadsheet in form of an Excel spreadsheet with a quote section and list of questions, as well as our EuroPython 2019 sponsor brochure with more details about the conference, the demographics and our offerings for sponsors, to give you an idea of what we are looking for.
Please see the first tab in the spreadsheet for a description of the submission process. If you have questions, please write to board@europython.eu.
In this batch, we have included all videos for Wednesday, July 10 2019, the first conference day.
In the coming two weeks we will publish videos for the next two conference days. In total, we will have more than 130 videos available for you to watch.
All EuroPython videos, including the ones from previous conferences, are available on our EuroPython YouTube Channel.
EuroPython 2019 is over now and so it’s time to ask around for what we can improve next year. If you attended EuroPython 2019, please take a few moments and fill in our feedback form, if you haven’t already done so:
We will leave the feedback form online for a few weeks and then use the information as basis for the work on EuroPython 2020 and also intend to post a summary of the multiple choice questions (not the comments to protect your privacy) on our website.
We’d like to highlight a special offering by our sponsors MongoDB and SOS Software / Intel: trainings which you are free to attend with just a conference ticket.
Sponsored training sessions in Room
02.W.03 of the FHNW Muttenz
The other training sessions on Monday and Tuesday can only be attended with a training pass - but those are sold out already, so the above sessions are a nice free extra for conference attendees.
Catering on training days not included
Since we have to budget carefully, the lunch and coffee breaks are not included, if you don’t have a training ticket or combined ticket.
To not keep you hungry, we have arranged that you can buy lunch coupons (price to be announced later). You can also go to the grocery store at the ground floor. For coffee breaks you can go to the ground floor, to the 12th floor of the FHNW building, or outside at the beach bar (nice weather only) and buy drinks.
EuroPython 2019 will start on Monday. Again we will have more than a thousand attendees signed up and we’re looking forward to an exciting conference packed with more than 130 sessions from Monday - Sunday, July 8 - 14.
Here’s some useful information to get you started:
1. Picking up your badge using your ticket ID
As in past year, we are again using the ticket ID for badge pickup. You can find your ticket ID in your account listed under:
Please have this ID at hand when picking up your badge.
We are planning to open doors at 08:30 on Monday.
Our regular registration desk hours are : 09:00 - 17:00 from Tuesday - Friday.
2. Conference App
We have created a dedicated mobile app to support your conference experience.
The mobile app gives you access to the conference schedule (even offline), helps you in planning your conference experience and provides a rich social engagement platform for all attendees.
You can create a profile within the app (or link this to your existing social accounts), share messages and photos, and easily reach out to other fellow attendees.
Please note: You need to open a new account inside the app, it’s not connected to your EuroPython account. If you have had an account in previous year, the app should recognize this and you don’t have to set it up again.
If you don’t have such a ticket, you can still attend the free sponsored trainings, the Beginners’ Day and the many PewPew workshops (remember, each attendee will get a PewPew device for free) on Monday and Tuesday, but you will either have to pay in cash / with card at the caterer or arrange food/drinks from the grocery store at the ground floor. For coffee breaks you can go to the ground floor, to the 12th floor of the FHNW building, or outside at the beach bar (nice weather only) and buy drinks.
7. Drinking water
At the FHNW, you can bring your own water, if you like, and fill up your bottle at the taps. Drinks are only available during the coffee breaks and lunch.
At the CCB, we will have water dispensers throughout the day, so you can bring your bottle and fill it up as needed.
PS: This blog post will also be sent out via email to all registered attendees.
Since we still have quite a few people with discount coupons who haven’t
bought their tickets yet, we’d like to remind that we are switching to late bird tickets on Saturday:
Switch to Late Bird Tickets on Saturday, July 6, 00:00 CEST
Late bird prices are about 30% higher than the regular ones.
Issued coupons are not valid for Late Bird Tickets
Please
note that the coupons we have issued so far are not valid for the late
bird tickets, so if you have a coupon for the conference, please order
your tickets before we switch to late bird.
This includes coupons
for sponsors, speakers, trainers and also the EPS community discount
coupons we have given to several user groups.
Please make sure you use your coupon before the switch on Saturday.
