We have received an amazing collection of 376 proposals. Thank you all for your contributions! Given the overwhelming quality of the proposals, we had some very difficult decisions to make. Nonetheless we are happy to announce we have published the first 110+ sessions.
Here’s what we have on offer so far:
12 Trainings (complete)
98 Talks (some more will follow)
6 help desks (complete)
10 posters (complete)
More sessions to come
We have informed all speakers with accepted submissions by email. We are further selecting a second wave of talks, that will be announced soon.
Please see the session list for details and abstracts. In case you wonder what poster, interactive and help desk sessions are, please check the call for proposals.
We are happy to announce that we’ll start early bird tickets on
Thursday, at around 12:00 CEST.
We have 200 conference tickets available at the Early Bird rate and they usually sell out within a day or two.
Invoices will be available in a few weeks
Since we’re running the conference in the UK this year and conference tickets are taxed at the location of the conference, we have to charge and pay 20% UK VAT on the tickets.
In order to do this, we need a UK VAT registration and associated VAT ID. Unfortunately, this whole process has taken way too long and so we’re starting ticket sales without issuing invoices at this time, simply because we would not be able to issue valid VAT invoices.
We will issues these as soon as we have the UK VAT ID, which should be within the next couple of weeks if all goes well.
We’ll announce this on the blog and you will then be able to download the invoices in your website account.
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 2018.
We offer financial aid conference grants in these 3 categories:
Free and discounted 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 costs: We will cover the travel costs pro rata, depending on what you are applying for.
Accommodation: We can partially cover your accommodation costs
Grant Eligibility
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
You can apply for financial aid by filling the form on the EuroPython 2018 Finance Aid page:
If you have any questions, please read the FAQ or send an email to finaid@europython.eu
Timeline
June 5th (2018-06-05) - the deadline for submitting the applications
June 12th (2018-06-12) - applicants will be notified by e-mail around
June 17th (2018-06-17) - deadline for applicants to accept the grant
June 20th (2018-06-20) - applicants will receive confirmation notific
July 23rd (2018-07-23) - last day when we accept invoices
Refund management
Free ticket: The individual coupons will be generated for a free ticket.
Accommodation and Travel grant: All grants involving reimbursements will be reimbursed by PayPal or bank transfer. Please send us your receipts (hotel invoice, plane/bus/train ticket) before the conference for approval.
Become a special Finance Aid and Diversity sponsor!
You or your company can support our finaid initiative by becoming a sponsor.
We have a special sponsor package “Financial aid sponsor” and a “Financial aid donation” option that can be booked separately or in combination with a sponsor package:
At EuroPython, we let our attendees have a significant say in the selection of the sessions which are presented at the conference. We call this “talk voting” - attendees can tell us which submitted talks they’d like to see at the conference.
To be eligible to vote for talks, you need to be a submitter of talks and everyone who attended one of the previous year’s EuroPython conferences.
Since we’re a bit short on time, talk voting will only be possible for a few days, until Sunday, May 27.
The talk voting page lists all submitted proposals, including talks, trainings and posters.
At the top of the page you find a few filters you can use to narrow down the list by e.g. selecting tags you’re interested in or only show one type of proposal and also to select the sorting order.
For each submission, you can find the talk title with a link to the talk page.
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 chose between these four options: “must see”, “want to see”, “maybe” and “not interested”. Please ignore the option “not voted” - it’s an alias for “not interested”.
If you have questions about the talk, you can go to the talk page and enter a comment.
Note that your votes are automatically saved to the backend without the need to click on a save or submit button.
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 majority of the talks will be chosen based on the talk voting results. Part of the available slots will be directly assigned by the Program WG based on editorial criteria to e.g. increase diversity or give a chance to less mainstream topics.
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 rate will most likely get selected.
We’d like to invite everyone to submit proposals for talks, trainings, panels, etc. Looking at the submission counts, we are especially looking for more trainings submissions (note that you get a free conference ticket and training pass as trainer of a selected training).
Submissions will then go into a talk voting phase where EuroPython attendees of previous years can vote on the submissions. The program work group will then use these votes as basis for the final talk selection and scheduling.
We expect to have the schedule available by end of May.
Please help us spread this reminder by sharing it on your social networks as widely as possible. Thank you !
Regular password resets are always a good thing to do, but this time we have a specific reason to ask you to consider taking the extra time.
In December 2017, our ISP detected port scans originating from our server and informed us about these. During the analysis, we found that someone (or better: some script) had found a way to break-in to our web server running the EuroPython website. We quickly fixed the situation, reset all authorizations and put measures in place to strictly limit the number of people having access to the server to a minimum and better secure the server against future break-in attempts.
The server was only used as SSH port scanning relay and we found no evidence of loss or leakage of data. We don’t believe that any of your personal information got into the wrong hands, but even though the passwords are stored using secure and salted hashes (using PBKDF2), we still recommend to reset your password to be on the safe side.
We know that this notice is late and we’d like to apologize for the hassle caused by this.
If you have just created a new account on the https://ep2018.europython.eu/ website we just launched, no further action is necessary.
We only recommend the password reset if you have had an account with us in previous years and this account is active on the new https://ep2018.europython.eu/ website. Logins on the older versions of our website are disabled for regular users, so no action is necessary on these.
How to reset your password
If you have had a password based account on one of the previous year’s EuroPython conference systems, these will typically still work on this year’s website.
Please log in to the system using your EP2017 account details (user id and password) and then go to the page:
This will start a process to reset your password: you should get an email explaining the process.
I have trouble resetting my password
A password reset will only work for accounts which indeed did have a password set. If you had used Google authentication for account creation, there is no password stored on our system which could be reset. As a result, the process will not work.
If you do know that you have a password based account, but cannot remember the email address or password, please contact our helpdesk@europython.eu and ask them to disable your old account, provided they can find it. They may ask questions to verify your identity as part of this process.
Please note that our helpdesk will not be able to reset your old account or send out a new password.
I would rather like to use Google for login
If you have previously created an account using passwords and would like to switch to a Google authentication based one, please write to the helpdesk@europython.eu asking to disable your existing account and change your email address.
On the right you will find a link to the Google login. After login, you can then update your account details on our site (they don’t have to match the ones you’re using on Google).
Going forward, we will probably call for such yearly password resets regularly - hopefully without having a reason such as the above.
Some community members have been wondering why tickets are not available yet. We’d like to update you on the current status.
EuroPython is run by the EuroPython Society located in Sweden. However, the conference being held in the UK, we have to charge UK VAT for the tickets we sell and submit the collected VAT to the UK tax authorities. In order to be able to do this, we have register with the UK tax authorities and this is where we have experienced unforseen delays.
After several attempts at getting this sorted, our friends at PyCon UK have helped us find a capable accountant with whom we are currently implementing the registration. Hopefully, the tax authorities won’t take too long to issue us a UK VAT ID. As soon as we have it, we will start ticket sales.
Ticket Prices Available
That said, we do already have some more information for you: we have decided on the initial ticket prices for EuroPython 2018. In case you need budget approval from your employer, you may put in your request now.
Given the changed conference layout, there will be tickets for:
trainings (Mon - Tue)
main conference (talks, etc) and sprints (Wed - Sun)
To attend conference talks and trainings, you will need to buy two tickets. If you only want to attend one of the two parts of the conference, you only have to purchase one ticket.
Conference / Early Bird Tickets
There will be 200 early bird tickets, which usually sell out within a day:
Business conference ticket: EUR 375.00 excl. VAT, EUR 450.00 incl. 20% UK VAT
Personal conference ticket: EUR 265.00 incl. 20% UK VAT
Student conference ticket: EUR 95.00 incl. 20% UK VAT
Conference tickets include: main conference days (Wed-Fri) and sprints.
We also plan to have a
the Beginners’ Day workshop on one of the training days. This will then be included in the conference ticket as well. Details will be announced in a separate announcement.
Important: Trainings on the training days are not included (see below for training passes).
Conference /Regular Tickets
After early bird tickets are sold out, we will switch to the regular rates:
Business conference ticket: EUR 575.00 excl. VAT, EUR 690.00 incl. 20% UK VAT
Personal conference ticket: EUR 385.00 incl. 20% UK VAT
Student conference ticket: EUR 140.00 incl. 20% UK VAT
Closer to the event, we will switch to Late Bird Ticket Rates, which will be around 30% higher than the regular rates.
Training Passes
Business training pass: EUR 295.00 excl. VAT, EUR 354.00 incl. 20% UK VAT
Personal training pass: EUR 175.00 incl. 20% UK VAT
Student
training pass: EUR 125.00 incl. 20% UK VAT
Training passes include: access to all trainings on the training days. Conference and sprints are not included.
More information
Please see the registration page for more details on ticket pricing.
We’re looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: programming from novice to advanced levels, applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organization. EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience.
Please also forward this Call for Proposals to anyone that you feel may be interested.
Important Notice: New Conference Layout
Please note that the conference layout has changed compared to previous years, the main conference (talks) is now only three days:
Monday and Tuesday: trainings, workshops and Beginners’ Day only
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: talks, panels, posters, helpdesks, open sessions,… (no trainings!).
Given the compact timing this year, one should not bet on an extension, please submit your proposals as early as possible - also to reduce work load of the reviewers. Thank you.
Presenting at EuroPython
We will accept a broad range of presentations, from reports on academic and commercial projects to tutorials and case studies. As long as the presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program.
Can you show something new and useful? Can you show the attendees how to: use a module? Explore a Python language feature? Package an application? If so, please consider submitting a talk.
There are four different kinds of contributions that you can present at EuroPython:
Regular Talk / approx. 110 slots
These are standard “talks with slides”, allocated in slots of
30 minutes
45 minutes
60 minutes
The Q&A session, if present, is included in the time slot. 3-5 Minutes for Q&A is a good practice. Please chose a time slot you see fit best to make your presentation in a compact way (So the audience may follow along but is not bored). We will only have a very limited number of 60 minute slots available, so please only choose these slots for more in-depth sessions or topics which require more background information.
Trainings / 12 slots.
Deep-dive into a subject with all details. These sessions are apporx. 3 hours long. The training attendees will be encouraged to bring a laptop. They should be prepared with less slides and more source code. Room capacity for the trainings rooms is 100 seats.
Panels
A panel is group of three to six experts plus a moderator discussing a matter in depth, an intensive exchange of (maybe opposite) opinions. A panel may be 30-60 minutes long. We have introduced this interactive format for EuroPython 2017 due to the many requests we have received to make the conference more interactive and have more challenging / mind-bending content in place. If you have any questions or if you want to discuss an idea for a panel upfront, please feel free to contact the Program WG to discuss. Please note if you suggest a panel you will have to organise the panelists and coordinate with the
Interactive
This is a completely open 60-minute format. Feel free to make your suggestions. There are only two rules: it must be interactive, real-time human-to-human-interaction and of course compliant with the EuroPython Code of Conduct. If you want to discuss an idea upfront, please feel free to contact the Program WG to discuss.
Posters / 15 slots
Posters are a graphical way to describe a project or a technology, printed in large formats; posters are exhibited at the conference, can be read at any time by participants, and can be discussed face to face with their authors during the poster session.
Helpdesk / 6 slots
Helpdesks are a great way to share your experience on a technology, by offering to help people answering their questions and solving their practical problems. You can run a helpdesk by yourself or with colleagues and friends. Each helpdesk will be open for 3 hours in total, 1.5 hours in the morning and 1.5 hours in the afternoon. People looking for help will sign up for a 30 minute slot and talk to you. There is no specific preparation needed; you just need to be proficient in the technology you run the helpdesk for.
Tracks
You may suggest your submission for a track. Tracks are groups of talks, covering the same domain (e.g. Django), all in the same room in a row. You may choose one of these specialized domains / tracks:
Business Track (running a business, being a freelancer)
DevOps
Django Track
Educational Track
General Python
Hardware/IoT Track
PyData Track
Science Track
Web Track
PyData EuroPython 2018
As usual, there will be a PyData track at this year’s conference. Please submit your papers for the PyData track through the EuroPython form and make sure to select “PyData” as sub community in the form.
Since EuroPython is a not-for-profit community conference, it is not possible to pay out rewards for talks or trainings. For talks, posters, help desk and organising a panels or interactive sessions we will give out a 25% discount coupon valid for one conference ticket. Trainers will receive a 100% discount coupon for both a conference
ticket and a training pass to compensate for the longer preparation time.
Suggested topics for EuroPython presentations include, but are not limited to:
Core Python
Python libraries and extensions
Python 2 to 3 migration
Data Science
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Databases
Documentation
Frameworks
Game Programming
Hardware (Sensors, RaspberryPi, Gadgets,…)
Network Programming
Open Source Python projects
Packaging
Programming Tools
Project Best Practices
Embedding and Extending
Education, Science and Math
Community
Ethics (related to Programming)
Web-based Systems
Use Cases
API
GUI Programming
Failures and Mistakes
Alternative Python implementations: e.g. Jython, IronPython, PyPy, and Stackless
Language for Talks & Trainings
Talks and trainings should be held in English.
Inappropriate Language and Imagery
Please consider that EuroPython is a conference with an audience from a broad geographical area which spans countries and regions with vastly different cultures. What might be considered a “funny, inoffensive joke” in a region might be really offensive (if not even unlawful) in another. If you want to add humor, references and images to your talk, avoid any choice that might be offensive to a group which is different from yours, and pay attention to ourEuroPython Code of Conduct.
Community Based Talk Voting
Attendees who have bought a ticket in time for the Talk Voting period gain the right to vote for talks submitted during the Call For Proposals.
The Program WG will also set aside a number of slots which they will then select based on other criteria to e.g. increase diversity or give a chance to less mainstream topics.
Release agreement for submissions
All submissions will be made public during the community talk voting, to allow all registrants to discuss the proposals. After finalizing the schedule, talks that are not accepted will be removed from the public website. Accepted submissions will stay online for the foreseeable future.
We also ask all speakers/trainers to:
accept the video recording of their presentation
upload their talk materials to the EuroPython website
accept the EuroPython Speaker Release Agreement which allows the EPS to make the talk recordings and uploaded materials available under a CC BY-NC-SA license
To simplify the organization, we ask all speakers and trainers to accept the video recording and publishing of their session. All talks will be recorded. Trainings will be not recorded.
Talk slides will be made available on the EuroPython web site. Talk video recordings will be uploaded to the EuroPython YouTube channel and archived on archive.org.
For more privacy related information, please consult our privacy policy.
In the coming days, we will provide you with more information and announce the start of the Call for Proposals and Early Bird Ticket sales. Please watch our EuroPython blog for updates.
After intense work with our designer, we are happy to present the logo for the EuroPython 2018 conference:
The colors and patterns are a play on Scottish kilts, referring to the location, and a theatre curtain, representing the many presentations we’ll have at the conference.
