Please note that the schedule may still change in details, but the overall layout is fixed now.
Book your EuroPython 2019 Ticket
Please make sure you book your ticket in the coming days. We will switch to late bird rates next week.
If you want to attend the training sessions, please buy a training pass in addition to your conference ticket, or get a combined ticket. We only have very few training seats left.
Travel & accommodation tips
Since we’re close the conference, Basel is in high demand. If you’re having problems finding a hotel, please also consider searching for apartments on the well known booking sites.
We have collected a number of recommendations for accommodation and travel to Basel on the EuroPython 2019 website. If you get a hotel or apartment in Basel, you will additionally get a BaselCard for your stay, which allows you to use public transport in Basel for free. Please see our accommodation page for details.
If you’re new to Python, you should come to our friendly, welcoming and
helpful Beginners’ Day Workshop. We cater to new Pythonistas of all
levels: from absolute beginners through to experienced programmers
encountering Python for the first time.
What is Beginners’ Day ?
Beginners’ day welcomes and supports folks who are new to Python
programming. It takes place on Tuesday 9th July, from 9:30 - 16:00 at the workshop venue,
FHNW Campus Muttenz. Just in time to get you ready for all the
talks which follow on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday ! It’s also a great
place to make friends with fellow attendees and figure out how to get
the most out of EuroPython.
Bring your laptop, because this will be a hands-on session!
The day will start with workshops to give you the chance to try out
Python in lots of different situations: making a game, creating a
website, programming embedded devices or telling stories with data (in a
Jupyter notebook). Later in the day you’ll have an opportunity to
further explore those aspects of Python which appeal to you with the
support of a team of experienced and helpful mentors. We’ll end the day
with a question and answer session about Python, EuroPython and the
wider Python ecosystem.
The emphasis will be in creating a fun,
supportive and useful path into the Python programming language and its
community.
Sign up for Beginners’ Day
You will need a conference pass to attend, but otherwise, it’s free, so
if you’re thinking of coming to the conference, but you’re new to Python
or programming, this could be the session for you.
The session will be presented in English (although our mentors will typically speak a few other languages as well).
If you’d like to come, please do register in advance for this session,
so that we know how to plan to make it the best yet. We need to know the
numbers for planing the workshop.
The workshop is being organised by experienced Python programmer and
educator, Nicholas H.Tollervey.
Already know Python? Do you value working in an open, inclusive and
collaborative way? Want to develop your mentorship skills? Fantastic!
We’re looking for folks with the technical skills, patience, humour and
empathy to work with beginners who may come from a wide variety of
backgrounds and levels of experience. It’s rewarding, fun and a great
way to give back to the community.
We’d especially love to hear from you if you can add an extra language
to help non-English speakers feel comfortable asking questions, or if
you’ve never mentored before and want to try to share your knowledge for
the first time. This is a supportive environment for both beginner
programmers AND beginner mentors. :-)
The EuroPython Society (EPS) does not only run the EuroPython conference, but also aims to provide help for the Python community in Europe in general.
Let’s all meet at EuroPython
In addition to the Python Organizers Lunch (see previous post), which focuses on conference organizers, we are also establishing a program to support attendees of Python user groups and conferences in Europe.
We’d like to invite all of you to EuroPython 2019 this year. Of course, we cannot give out free tickets to everyone, but we can at least recognize your participation in the Python community by giving out discounts for the conference.
Discounts for EuroPython Tickets
If you are running a Python event (conference or user group) in Europe, please reach out to board@europython.eu to request a coupon code for your group, which you can then pass on to your group members or attendees.
If you are not running a user group or conference, but a regular attendee of one, please contact your organizers to have them submit a request. We can only distribute codes at the user group and conference organizer level.
The coupon codes are valid for conference tickets bought starting today and will give you a 10% discount on the ticket price (both regular and late bird prices). The codes are setup for user group sizes of between 30-50 members, but we are also extending this to organizers and attendees of larger conferences. If you need a code valid for larger groups, please mention this in your email.
As you may know, the EuroPython Society (EPS) has extended it’s mission to not only run the EuroPython conference, but also provide help for the Python community in Europe in general.
As part of this, we would like to get to know, and help create closer ties between organizers of other European Python events.
Organizers’ Lunch
We would like to invite representatives of all European Python conference to EuroPython 2019 to join us for an organizers’ lunch. We’re planing the lunch for Thursday or Friday. Details will be announced closer to the event.
Our aim is to get to know each other, exchange experience in organizing events and to find out how we, as EPS, can most effectively help other conferences going forward.
Free Tickets
To support and facilitate this, we are giving out one free conference ticket per conference team, so that each team can send a representative to the organizers’ lunch.
If your team wants to send someone to join, please write to board@europython.eu, mentioning the conference you’re organizing and some background on your team.
Usually, we try to have something as surprise for our attendees every year. However, for this year’s conference, we have decided to give our attendees something to play with and this needs a little more preparation than a bottle or a beach towel.
Drum roll… crowd screaming… and here it is: we’re please to present the…
EuroPython 2019 PewPew Game Console
The device was created and designed by Radomir Dopieralski, a long time EuroPython regular and enthusiastic Python device and robotics builder.
The PewPew is a simplified game console, programmable with CircuitPython, a variant of MicroPython. It comes with a 64 LED display and a set of small buttons to drive the console.
We will have one device per attendee with training or conference ticket and plan to give them out together with the badges.
Free Workshops
To teach you how to program the consoles and help with any questions you may have, we have arranged a special workshop room on the training days Monday and Tuesday, where Radomir and his team will run workshops focusing on the PewPew. You will learn how to write small programs and games.
Our hope is that you will take this knowledge home and spread the word about how much fun Python is – especially for younger users.
The workshops are free for EuroPython conference or training ticket holders, but please see our notes on catering on the training days.
Help us run the workshops
Since Radomir needs help with running the workshops, we are reaching out to you with this blog post. If you are interested in embedded Python, hardware hacking, game development
and similar topics, we invite you to come help us running those workshops.
This is a great opportunity to meet with Python developers and learn together,
and we’re sure you will have great fun while helping other attendees. Whether it’s
just lending a hand getting things working, or running a whole workshop –
it’s up to you, either way we will greatly appreciate your help.
EuroPython 2019 will be held from July 8-14 2019 in Basel, Switzerland, at the Congress Center Basel (CCB) for the main conference days (Wed-Fri) and the FHNW Muttenz for the workshops/trainings/sprints days (Mon-Tue, Sat-Sun).
Since our website was updated this year, we would like to remind you how you can configure your tickets and profiles, so that we get the right information for printing badges and adjusting catering counts.
We also had a few issues with the ticket configuration and assignments last week. As a result, some of the ticket name changes you may have made were lost. Please do consider assigning tickets to other rather than just changing the name on the ticket, since that way, we receive information about the new ticket owner’s preferences as well.
Log in to the website
The first step to administer your tickets and account is to log in to the website. If you don’t have an account yet, you can register easily using email and password or Google authentication.
Please avoid creating multiple accounts, since this can easily cause confusion and merging accounts is currently not possible.
Assigning tickets to other people
If you are the buyer of the tickets, you can now assign the tickets to other people, e.g. in your company.
In order to assign tickets, the people you want to assign them to need to have an account on our system. Please tell them to register with the EuroPython website and provide you with the email address they use to register.
Once they have registered and you have the email address they used, you can then go to the ticket section and reassign the ticket:
Click on “Assign ticket” and then enter the email address of the person to assign the ticket to:
Clicking save will then transfer the ticket to the new user.
Configuring your ticket
If you have bought a ticket or have been assigned a ticket, please check the configuration of the ticket, so we will use the correct details for printing badges, arranging catering and t-shirt counts, etc.
This will take you to a form where you can configure the name as it should appear on the badge, your preferred t-shirt size, diet, expected days of attendance and a (funny) tagline to put on the badge.
Printing your invoice
If you have bought tickets on the website, you will find the invoices for the tickets on your account page as well:
You can download the invoice in PDF format, print and save it to your records.
Configuring your EuroPython account
The website also provides a couple of other dialogs which allow you to configure your account:
The “Profile settings” allow you to edit the profile shown on the website. This is especially important for speakers, since their profiles will be public and associated with their presentations.
The “Privacy settings” dialog allows you to opt-in to recruiting emails from our sponsors (among other things):
If you happen to be looking for a new job or freelance opportunity, this is a good way to get more information from sponsors who will present in our recruiting session.
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
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.
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:
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.
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:
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 !
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:
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.
