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.
We will be switching to the late bird rates for tickets on Saturday (July 6), so this is your last chance to get tickets at the regular rate, which is about 30% less than the late bird rate.
We will have the following categories of late bird ticket prices for the conference tickets:
Business conference ticket: EUR 775.00 excl. VAT, EUR 834.68 incl. 7.7% Swiss VAT (for people using Python to make a living)
Personal conference day pass: EUR 520.00 incl. 7.7% Swiss VAT (for people enjoying Python from home)
Student conference ticket: not available (please get day passes or a personal ticket instead)
Day Passes
As in the past, we will also sell day passes for the conference. These allow attending the conference for a single day (July 8 - 14; valid on the day you pick up the day pass badge):
Business conference day pass: EUR 390.00 excl. VAT, EUR 420.03 incl.
7.7% Swiss VAT (for people using Python to make a living)
Personal conference day pass: EUR 260.00 incl.
7.7% Swiss VAT (for people enjoying Python from home)
Student conference day pass: EUR 110.00 incl.
7.7% Swiss VAT (only available for pupils, students and postdoctoral researchers; please bring your student card or declaration from University, stating your affiliation, starting and end dates of your contract)
Day passes are available starting today, Wednesday, July 3.
Please see the registration page for full details of what is included in the ticket price. Also note that neither late bird tickets, nor day passes are refundable.
Our sponsors would love to get in touch with you, so please have a look and visit them at their booth or contact them via the links and email addresses given on the page.
Job ad emails
We will also send out job ad emails to attendees who have agreed to receiving these emails. If you are interested, please log in, go to your profile and enable the recruiting email option in the privacy section:
Note that we will not give your email addresses to sponsors, but only send out these emails on behalf of them.
Switzerland is often not included in European cell provider’s roaming packages and also not covered by the EU roaming regulation, so you can potentially incur significant charges when going online with your mobile or notebook.
Please do check your mobile package to see whether it includes Switzerland in your roaming package.
Some providers offer special packages which can be bought as option to also cover Switzerland.
Swiss SIM cards available in ticket shop
In order to make things easier for you, we have purchased 300 SIM cards from a local Swiss cell provider, which we will make available in our ticket shop. After purchase, you can then pick up the cards at the registration desk (please bring your receipt).
These cards include 1 GB data with high-speed 4G/LTE and costs EUR 13.50, incl. 7.7% Swiss VAT.
After the keynotes and talks on Thursday, July 11th, we’ve organized a social event at the workshop venue, the FHNW Muttenz. Starting at 19:00 CEST, you can join us for an evening party with finger food, drinks and music.
We are using a volunteer management app for the organization and a Telegram group for communication.
We have a few exciting tasks to offer such as helping out setting up and tearing down the conference space, giving out goodie bags and t-shirts, and being at the conference desk to answer all questions about EuroPython, session chairing or helping as room manager.
We also have some perks for you, to give something back. Please check our volunteers page for details.
We are very pleased to have MongoDB as Keystone Sponsor for EuroPython 2019. You can visit them at the most central booth in our exhibit area on the second floor in the Congress Center Basel (CCB), and take the opportunity to chat with their staff and learn more about the MongoDB eco-system.
Please find below a hosted blog post from MongoDB.
MongoDB is the leading modern, general-purpose database platform, designed to unleash the power of software and data for developers and the applications they build. We have architected our database to cater to the needs of modern-day applications from the ground-up with built-in support for high availability through sophisticated replication with self-healing recovery and horizontal scalability through native sharding. MongoDB Atlas is our fully-automated database-as-a-service offering, engineered and run by the same team that builds the database. At MongoDB, it is our mission to make data ridiculously easy to work with and we love, love, LOVE Python because it helps us do exactly that.
To bring the power of MongoDB to the Python ecosystem, we’ve developed PyMongo - the Python driver for MongoDB. With over 3 million downloads per month, PyMongo is one of our most popular drivers. Our Driver team also maintains Motor - an asynchronous Python driver for MongoDB and PyMODM - our object-document mapper. While Python is an important and popular tool for our users, it is also an integral part of developer workflows across our engineering teams. Our Documentation team, for instance, maintains the Giza library which is used to render the entire official MongoDB documentation. Our Education team builds MongoDB University with Django and uses PyMODM and MongoDB Atlas to store application data. The University site has over 1 million registered users and over 100,000 active users per month–all powered by MongoDB. Python is also an integral part of our CI/CD process used to test our core database and all drivers.
Join us at our workshop where we will teach you how to harness the power of MongoDB Atlas to build a highly-available CRUD application using Flask and PyMongo. You will learn more about MongoDB’s document data model, how we ensure high-availability and best practices for building applications using MongoDB. We will also showcase how to build the same application in MongoDB Stitch - our serverless platform. Bring your laptops!
MongoDB is proud to support the Python community. In the past, we have sponsored conferences such as PyCon and PyGotham, and also hosted meetups such as PyLadies. Drop by our booth (#10) to say ‘hi’ to our awesome team and to learn more about Python at MongoDB! You can also join the conversation with other MongoDB and Python community members in our Community Slack Workspace. Register at http://launchpass.com/mongo-d or login at http://mongo-db.slack.com.
