EuroPython Blog

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.

We would still like to ask all attendees to take the necessary and recommended hygienic precautions when attending the event and pay close attention to your country’s travel guidelines. If you don’t feel well, please do not attend the conference - instead, please follow the COVID-19 advice of the Irish Health Service. We will refund your ticket.

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.

Resources:

• Irish Governement: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Overview & Updates
  
• Irish Governement: COVID-19 (Coronavirus): Health advice
• Irish Health Service: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases Overview (with daily updates)
  
• WHO: Q&A on coronaviruses (COVID-19)
• Irish Department of Foreign Affairs: Travel Advice

Thanks,
–
EuroPython 2020 Team
https://ep2020.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

We have opened the Call for Proposals today. It will be left open for three weeks and then close on:

Sunday, March 29 23:59:59 CEST

In order to submit a proposal, please log in to the site (or create an account first) and then proceed to the CFP page:

https://ep2020.europython.eu/call-for-proposals/

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.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2020 Team
https://ep2020.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

We are very excited to announce the launch of our website for EuroPython 2020:

EuroPython 2020 Website

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.

More updates:

• The CFP will launch as planned on Monday, March 9th.
• 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.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2020 Team
https://ep2020.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

We are happy to announce that the Call for Proposals will open on March 9. It will be left open for three weeks and then close on:

Sunday, March 29 23:59:59 CEST

While you wait for submissions to open, please check out the Call for Proposals details on our pre-launch website:

https://ep2020.europython.eu/call-for-proposals/

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.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2020 Team
https://ep2020.europython.eu/

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.
  

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2020 Team
https://ep2020.europython.eu/

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.

https://ep2020.europython.eu/

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.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2020 Team
https://ep2020.europython.eu/

europythonsociety:

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.

Many thanks,
–
EuroPython Society Board
https://www.europython-society.org/

We are pleased to announce the third and final batch of cut videos from EuroPython 2019 in Basel, Switzerland, with another 49 videos.

EuroPython 2019 on our YouTube Channel

In this batch, we have included all videos for Friday, July 12 2019, the third conference day.

In total, we now have 133 videos available for you to watch.

All EuroPython videos, including the ones from previous conferences, are available on our EuroPython YouTube Channel.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2019 Team
https://ep2019.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

With a slight delay, we are pleased to announce the second batch of cut videos from EuroPython 2019 in Basel, Switzerland, with another 45 videos.

EuroPython 2019 YouTube Channel

In this batch, we have included all videos for Thursday, July 11 2019, the second conference day.

In the coming week we will publish videos for the final conference day. 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.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2019 Team
https://ep2019.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

europythonsociety:

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.

You can also check these other resources:

• EuroPython 2019 website: https://ep2019.europython.eu/en/
  
• EuroPython videos: http://europython.tv/
  
• EuroPython pictures: https://www.flickr.com/groups/europython2019/
  
• EuroPython blog: http://blog.europython.eu/
  
• EuroPython Twitter channel: https://twitter.com/europython
  
• EuroPython Society: http://www.europython-society.org/
  

Timeline

This is the timeline for the RFP:

First round:

• Start of RFP process: 2019-09-09
  
• Deadline for RFP vendor questions: 2019-09-16
  
• Vendor questions answered by: 2019-09-20
  
• First round submission deadline: 2019-09-27
  
• Second round candidates will be informed until: 2019-10-07
  

Second round:

• Second round RFP questions posted: 2019-10-13
• Deadline for RFP vendor questions: 2019-10-16
• Vendor questions answered by: 2019-10-20
• Final submission deadline: 2019-10-25
• Final candidate will be informed until: 2019-10-30
  

RFP Resources

• EuroPython 2019 sponsor brochure
  
• First round RFP spreadsheet
  
• RFP submission form for uploading the filled in spreadsheet and any additional documents, you may want to provide

Many thanks,
– 
EuroPython Society Board
https://www.europython-society.org/