EuroPython Blog

We are pleased to announce the conference app for EuroPython 2018, again hosted on the Attendify platform:

EuroPython 2018 Conference App

Engage with the conference and its attendees

The mobile app gives you access to the conference schedule (even offline), helps you in planing your conference experience (create your personal schedule with reminders) 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 - all from within the app.

Vital for all EuroPython 2018 attendees

We will again use the conference app to keep you updated by sending updates of the schedule and inform you of important announcements via push notifications, so please consider downloading it.

Many useful features

Please see our EuroPython 2018 Conference App page for more details on features and guides on how to use them.

Don’t forget to get your EuroPython ticket

If you want to join the EuroPython fun, be sure to get your tickets as soon as possible, since ticket sales have picked up a lot this and we may have to close sales prior to the event.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2018 Team
https://ep2018.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

Ever wanted to help out during Europython ? Do you want to *really* take part in EuroPython, meet new people and help them at the same time ?

We have just the right thing for you: apply as EuroPython Volunteer and be part of the great team that is making EuroPython 2018 a reality this year.

EuroPython Volunteers

Glad you want to help ! Please see our volunteers page for details on how to sign up:

EuroPython 2018 Volunteers

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.

Hope to see you there !

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2018 Team
https://ep2018.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

We are pleased to host and sponsor a free Women’s Django Workshop on Monday 23rd July, from 9am-6pm.

EuroPython Women’s Django Workshop

What to expect

Would you like to learn about how to build websites, but don’t know where to start? A group of volunteers will lead you through HTML, CSS, Python & Django to build a blog in a one day workshop. No prior programming knowledge is needed to participate! 

How to register

If you would like to take part, apply for a spot by filling in our application form. Participation is free of charge, but does require registration.

The EuroPython Society sponsors this event, providing space, catering and making available up to 30 discounted student rate conference tickets to the workshop attendees.

Reminder: Book your EuroPython 2018 tickets soon

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. We only have very few left and will close sales for these soon.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2018 Team
https://ep2018.europython.eu/  
https://www.europython-society.org/

Over the last few weeks, our program WG has been working hard on getting the schedule all lined up. Today, we’re releasing it to the Python world.

Schedule for EuroPython 2018

With 140 speakers and more than 150 sessions, we have a full packed program waiting for you. Please note that the schedule may still change in details, but the overall layout is fixed now.

Book your EuroPython 2018 Ticket

Please make sure you book your ticket in the coming days. We will switch to late bird rates closer to the event.

If you want to attend the training sessions, please buy a training pass. We only have very few left and will close sales for these later this week.

Travel & accommodation tips

Since we’re close the conference and The Fringe is starting a week later, Edinburgh is in high demand. If you’re having problems finding a hotel, please also consider searching for apartments on the well known booking sites.

For traveling to Edinburgh, we suggest also considering a combination of plane and train or bus. London, Birmingham and Manchester all provide train and bus lines going to Edinburgh and by booking a combination, you can often save a lot, compared to a direct flight to Edinburgh.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2018 Team
https://ep2018.europython.eu/  
https://www.europython-society.org/

The EuroPython Society (EPS) extended its mission last year to not only run the EuroPython conference, but also 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 2018 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.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython Society
https://ep2018.europython.eu/  
https://www.europython-society.org/

The EuroPython Society (EPS), who is organizing the EuroPython conference, last year extended it’s mission to 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 2018 to join us for an organizers’ lunch. We’re planing the lunch for Friday, July 27, in the organizer’s room (Soutra Suite).

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.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython Society
https://ep2018.europython.eu/  
https://www.europython-society.org/

Maybe you’ve come to EuroPython as a programmer from another language.

Or perhaps you have other tech skills or you really want to understand what it’s like to program in Python.

Then come to our Beginners’ Day at EuroPython.

What is Beginners’ Day ?

Beginners’ Day is a session we are running, just for newcomers to the Python programming language, on Tuesday, July 24th from 09:30 - 16:45, at the Edinburgh International Conference Center (EICC), the EuroPython 2018 venue, and just in time to get you ready for all the talks which follow on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

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 workshop will be run by:

• Vincent D. Warmerdam (PyData Amsterdam) 
• Christian Barra (EuroPython board member)
  

Sign up for Beginners’ Day

Whether you’re totally new to programming or you already know another language - this full day session will give you a crash-course in Python, and the ecosystem around it. You’ll get the context you need to get the most out of the rest of the EuroPython conference.

Bring your laptop, because this will be a hands-on session!

This session will be presented in English (although a few of the coaches do speak basic Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese).

Please see the Beginners’ Day page for the full program:

https://ep2018.europython.eu/en/events/beginners-day/

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.

Sign up for Beginners’ Day

Call for Mentors

Already know Python ? Want to be a mentor ? Fantastic !

Especially 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.

Please sign up as a mentor on our mentor registration form.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2018 Team
https://ep2018.europython.eu/  
https://www.europython-society.org/

We have great news ! After many months of sorting the UK VAT registration issue, we have finally been registered for VAT in the UK. This is the number, we’ve all been waiting for:

GB 297620469

We’ve now generated all the missing invoices for existing purchases and hope that this will make it easier for companies to now register their employees as well.

EuroPython 2018: Get your tickets before we sell out

Downloading Invoices

If you have already purchased tickets, you can find the invoices in your account. Simply log in, go to the profile page, select “Orders, invoices & coupons” on the right and you should find the invoice links for your orders.

The invoices are generated as PDFs, so you can print or archive them easily.

Sorry for keeping you waiting so long.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2018 Team
https://ep2018.europython.eu/  
https://www.europython-society.org/

As we have already announced, access to trainings is not included in our regular conference tickets this year. We have done this to keep the conference ticket prices reasonable, acknowledge the value in the trainings are and to add more flexibility.

Two full days of trainings included

Training passes allow you to access all trainings on the two training days, Monday and Tuesday. Each training will run for 3 hours and they will be scheduled in 3 parallel tracks. 

Please note: Training access is on a first-come-first-served basis. We don’t provide registration for specific training sessions.

A light lunch is served on the training days, which is included in the training pass price.

• Business training pass: EUR 295.00 excl. VAT, EUR 354.00 incl. 20% UK VAT
  (for people using Python to make a living)
• Personal training pass: EUR 175.00 incl. 20% UK VAT
  (for people enjoying Python from home)
• Student training pass: EUR 125.00 incl. 20% UK 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)

The trainings pass does not grant you permission to attend the main EuroPython conference days or the sprints. Please get a separate conference ticket for this.

Available training sessions

We have already selected an initial set of trainings, you can view on our session list:

https://ep2018.europython.eu/en/events/sessions/#Training-sessions

We will also have a few sponsored trainings, which are free (you don’t need a training pass to attend these). These will be announced in a separate blog post.

Only a limited number of training passes available

Since we don’t want to overbook the trainings sessions, we have limited the number of training passes to 200.

Training pass sales will start on Friday, June 8, at around 12:00 CEST.

(that’s 10:00 UTC, 11:00 BST, 13:00 EEST, …)

Given the experience with the early bird tickets, which sold out in less than 45 minutes, we recommend to get your ticket as soon as you can.

Regular conference tickets are selling out much faster than last year as well, so the same recommendation applies to those as well.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2018 Team
https://ep2018.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/

At last year’s event we had a professional conference photographer, Alessia Peviani, from our community, help us cover the event in pictures:

https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/europython/photos/

This year she unfortunately cannot attend, so we’re looking for help from other photographers in the community.

Here’s what we can offer:

• recognition and publicity by listing you as the official EuroPython conference photographer
  
• free tickets for the conference and trainings
  
• refund for travel and accommodation up to EUR 500
  
• gratitude by our attendees who really appreciate having this kind of documentation available
  

What we are asking for:

• cover all aspects of the conference in photos
  
• photos licensed under the CC BY-NC license, with a special exception for the EPS, so that we can use the photos for promoting the conference
  
• self-management and help with administering the Flickr group, uploads by other community photographers and discussions
  

If you are interested in helping us, please write to media@europython.eu.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2018 Team
https://ep2018.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/