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Would you like to know about how to build websites, how the internet works and would you like to try programming your own first blog, but don’t know where to start? We have good news for you: we are holding a

one-day Django Girls workshop for beginners !

Where and when

The workshop will be held on Monday, July 8th in the EuroPython 2019 conference venue FHNW Campus Muttenz from 09:30 – 17:00.

What to expect

During the workshop you will work through a tutorial in a small group of three attendees and one coach. Our coaches are software developers who contribute their time, knowledge and energy for you and Django Girls. All you need is a working laptop, and we’ll help you with the rest.

You can attend the workshop for free! Your motivation counts, let us know about it in your application.

Registering for the workshop

The workshop is aimed at women with little or no programming experience, but may also be useful if you’ve learned a different discipline (like data science) and would like to learn how to build websites with Django.

The workshop is free to attend, but you have to apply and be accepted. We only have 30 seats available for the workshop, and we’ll pick the best applicants based on the information you provide you provide on the form.

If you’d like to attend: Apply Here

Workshop coaches

We can’t run this workshop without coaches! A coach will be assigned to each group of 3 attendees. Their job is to support and encourage their team as they work through the Django Girls tutorial at their own pace. 

If you’d like to apply to be a coach, please sign up here.

Sponsors of EuroPython 2019 Django Girls Workshop

• The EuroPython Society is providing the room and catering in our training venue, the FHNW Campus Muttenz.
  
• Nexmo will provide the Django Girls workshop box.
  
• EntwicklerHeld will provide t-shirts for our coaches.

More information is available on our Django Girls page:

https://ep2019.europython.eu/events/django-girls/

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

We are happy to announce the start of our financial aid program for this year’s EuroPython.

As part of our commitment to the Python community, we are pleased to announce that we offer special grants for people in need of a financial aid to attend EuroPython.

Financial Aid Sponsor for EuroPython 2019:

The EuroPython Society (EPS) is sponsoring financial aid with 15,000 EUR this year.

We offer financial aid conference grants in these 2 categories:

• Free ticket. Get a standard ticket for the conference for free (including access to conference days (Wed-Fri), Beginners’ Day workshop and sprints.). Note: training passes are NOT included in the free conference ticket.
  
• Travel / Accommodation. We will cover the travel costs pro rata, depending on what you are applying for. You can get partial refund for the accommodation.
  

Grant Eligibility

EuroPython is a wonderful place to meet and share your experience with other Python developers from Europe and all around the world. Our goal is support people which want to make Python community better: conference speakers and tutorial presenters, active people from small Python communities and open source contributors.

Our grants are open to all people in need of financial aid. We will specifically take into account the following criteria in the selection process:

• Contributors: potential speakers/trainers of EuroPython (people who submitted a proposal) and all who contribute to EuroPython and/or Python community projects.
  
• Economic factors: we want everybody to have a chance to come to EuroPython, regardless of economic situation or income level.
  
• Diversity: we seek the most diverse and inclusive event possible.
  

How to apply

Please see our financial aid page for all details:

https://ep2019.europython.eu/registration/financial-aid/

Become a Financial Aid Sponsor !

Even though the EPS is already sponsoring finaid, we can always use more budget to increase the number of people who can benefit from the program.

You or your company can support our diversity and finaid initiative by becoming a sponsor. We have a special options “Financial aid sponsor” and “Financial aid donation” in the list of sponsor options, that can be booked separately or be included in the sponsor package.

Please check our sponsor brochure for more information and contact finaid@europython.eu or the sponsor work group directly sponsoring@europython.eu.

Bring new sponsor and get free ticket for EuroPython 2019 !

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

Although the main conference starts on Wednesday, July 10th, there’s already so much to do for attendees with the main conference ticket on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th.

Beginners’ Day and Sponsored Trainings

You can come to the workshops and trainings venue at FHNW Campus Muttenz and:

• pick up your conference badge
• attend the Beginners’ Day workshop
• attend the sponsored trainings

If you want to attend other workshops and trainings, you’ll need a separate training ticket or combined ticket.

Details on the Beginners’ Day workshop and the sponsored trainings will be announced separately.

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.

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

Our program work group (WG) has been working hard over the weekend to select the sessions for EuroPython 2019.

We’re now happy to announce the first batch with:

• 112 talks,
  
• 12 trainings,
  
• 6 posters,
• 1 interactive session and
  
• 5 helpdesks
  

brought to you by 129 speakers.

More advanced talks than in previous EuroPython editions

We are glad that the Python community has heard our call to submit more advanced talks this year. This will make EuroPython 2019 even more interesting than our previous edition.

Waiting List

Some talks are still in the waiting list. We will inform all speakers who have submitted talks about the selection status by email.

PyData EuroPython 2019

As in previous years, we will have lots of PyData talks and trainings:

• 4 trainings on Monday and Tuesday (July 8-9)
  
• 34 talks on Wednesday and Thursday (July 10-11)
  
• no PyData talks on Friday (July 12)

Full Schedule

The full schedule will be available early in June.

Training Tickets & Combined Tickets

If you want to attend the trainings offered on the training days (July 8-9), please head over to the registration page in the next couple of days. Sales are going strong and we only have 300 tickets available.

Combined tickets are new this year and allow attending both training and conference days with a single ticket.

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

We will be starting the EuroPython 2019 conference and training ticket sales

today (Monday) at 12:00 CEST.

https://ep2019.europython.eu/registration/buy-tickets/

Only 300 training tickets available

After the rush to the early-bird tickets last week (we sold more than 290 tickets in 10 minutes), we expect a rush to the regular and training tickets this week as well.

We only have 300 training tickets available, so if you want to attend the training days, please consider getting your ticket soon.

Available ticket types

We will have the following ticket types available:

• regular conference tickets - admission to the conference days (July 10-12) and sprints (July 13-14)
  
• training tickets - admission to the training days (July 8-9)
  
• combined tickets - admission to training, conference and sprint days (July 8-14)
  

Please see our registration page for full details on the available tickets.

As reminder, here’s the conference layout:

• Monday & Tuesday, July 8 & 9: Trainings, Beginners’ Day and other workshops
• Wednesday–Friday, July 10–12: Conference talks, keynotes & exhibition
• Saturday & Sunday, July 13 & 14: Sprints

Combined Tickets

These are a new ticket type we are introducing for EuroPython 2019, to simplify purchase and check-in at the conference for attendees who want to attend the complete EuroPython 2019 week with a single ticket.

To make the ticket more attractive, we are granting a small discount compared to purchasing training and conference tickets separately.

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

We are pleased to present our EuroPython 2019 Sponsor Brochure:

We have worked with our designer to compile all relevant information about the conference in a nice to read brochure, you can use to discuss a possible sponsorship in your company.

EuroPython 2019 Sponsor Brochure as PDF

If you have questions, please contact our sponsor team at sponsoring@europython.eu.

Once you have decided, please sign up via the form on our sponsor package page.

Early-bird sponsorship deal

If you are quick to decide, you can benefit from a 10% early-bird discount we give on sponsor packages, if you sign up today (Friday, May 17):

https://ep2019.europython.eu/sponsor/packages/ 

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

Talk voting is your chance to tell us what you’d like to see at EuroPython 2019. We will leave talk voting open until:

Friday, May 17 23:59:59 CEST

In order to vote, please log in to the website and then navigate to the talk voting page:

https://ep2019.europython.eu/events/talk-voting/

How talk voting works

The talk voting page lists all submitted proposals, including talks, trainings 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.

Please note the voting period is a bit shorter this year. We want to make up some time and release a first selection of accepted proposals by May 22. 

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, giving a chance to less mainstream topics as well as avoiding 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.

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

As previously announced, we will be opening early-bird tickets sales today at 12:00 CEST.

We will have 200 early-bird tickets available when we open up ticket sales. They offer a discount of up to 50% over the standard rate and are usually sold out within a few hours. In 2018 early bird tickets were sold out in just 45 minutes.  

Please have your credit cards ready, in case you want to buy early-bird tickets. We won’t support Paypal payments this year due to the issues we ran into with their service last year.

For more details on tickets, please see our registration page:

Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant

For Python Core Developers, we have put a special grant in place, which will allow core developers to get free tickets to the conference. We will issue coupon codes for the regular tickets in the coming days, since we’d like to keep the early-bird tickets for people who are not eligible for such grants, refunds or discounts.

If you want to sign up, please check our grant page for details on how to apply.

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

We would like to remind you that the Call for Proposals closes this coming Sunday:

EuroPython 2019 CFP ends on May 12 23:59:59 CEST

Please submit your proposal via our website:

https://ep2019.europython.eu/events/call-for-proposals/

For full details, please see our previous blog post on the CFP 2019.

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

As in the last few years, we will again have early-bird ticket sales for the conference.

We plan to open early bird ticket sales on Monday, May 13th at 12:00 CEST.

This year, we will have 200 early-bird tickets available when we open up ticket sales. They offer a discount of up to 50% over the standard rate and are usually sold out within a few hours. In 2018 early bird tickets were sold out in just 45 minutes.

Early-Bird Conference Tickets

We have the following three categories of early-bird rate ticket prices for the full conference tickets (Beginners’ Day workshop, 3 conference days, sprints):

• Business conference ticket: EUR 395.00 excl. VAT, EUR 425.42 incl. 7.7% Swiss VAT
  (for people using Python to make a living)
• Personal conference ticket: EUR 265.00 incl. 7.7% Swiss VAT
  (for people enjoying Python from home)
• Student conference ticket: EUR 95.00 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)

Please note that access to trainings is not included in the early-bird conference ticket price. We will have separate “Training passes” for this, later in May.

We would like to encourage and trust you, to pick a ticket type that reasonably fits your personal situation.

For more details, please see the registration page:

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