EuroPython Blog

As you may know, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is starting one week after EuroPython 2018 in Edinburgh. Since this typically attracts many thousands of people and artists, the hotels are filling up quickly in Edinburgh.

If you’re planning to attend EuroPython, please book your hotel early. Many booking sites offer free cancellations, so there’s no risk in making reservations now, even if you decide not to come in the end.

Room allocation for EuroPython 2018

To help with this, we have partnered with the Edinburgh Convention Bureau to set aside a number of hotel rooms which are reserved for EuroPython attendees. These rooms will be held reserved until a few weeks before the conference and are also available with a free cancellation option.

The  Edinburgh Convention Bureau has setup the following website for booking rooms from this allocation:

EuroPython 2018 Hotel Booking Website
(run by the Edinburgh Convention Bureau)

Update on EuroPython 2018

Meanwhile, we wanted to give you an update of where we are with the conference organization:

We are still working on getting everything setup for launching the website, opening ticket sales and the Call for Proposals (CFP).

This year the EuroPython Society (EPS) will  be running the ticket sales, rather than a local organization and we are facing some challenges related to VAT taxes, which are taking longer to sort out than expected.

This is the main reason for the delay you are seeing, but we’re getting there.

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

We are excited to announce the launch of the EuroPython 2018 website:

https://ep2018.europython.eu/

The EuroPython conference will take place in sunny Edinburgh, Scotland, this year, from July 23-29 2018.

It’s a great time of year to visit Edinburgh with 16 hours of daylight, and the festival season in full flow, so come and join us. This is just one week before the famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Turing Festival, so you can extend your stay a little longer in Edinburgh, or head for the Highlands to enjoy the amazing mountains and lochs.

EuroPython 2018 - The European Python Conference

Here’s an overview of what you can expect in Edinburgh:

• We will start with Workshops and Training Sessions on Monday and Tuesday.

• The main 3 conference days follow, packed with keynotes, talks, exhibition, help desks, interactive sessions, panels and poster sessions.

• The two weekend days after the conference, July 28 and 29, are reserved for sprints (hackathons).

Overall, we will again have 7 days worth of great Python content, arranged in over 120 sessions, waiting for you.

The venue is the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, in central Edinburgh, just on the edge of the historic Old Town.

In short:

• Monday, Tuesday, July 23-24: Workshops and Training
  
• Wednesday - Friday, July 25-27: Conference talks, keynotes, training
  
• Saturday, Sunday, July 28-29: Sprints
  

Our Sponsors

All this would not be possible without the generous help of our launch sponsors. If your company would be interested in sponsoring the 17th EuroPython please contact sponsoring@europython.eu.

Sponsoring EuroPython guarantees you highly targeted visibility and the opportunity to present yourself and your company in a professional and innovative environment. You’ll have an unique opportunity to meet many Python-enthusiastic developers, users and professionals. As a sponsor of EuroPython 2018, you will directly help to promote the work of a great open-source community and help further its development.

EuroPython 2018 is the 17th EuroPython conference. The conference tours throughout Europe. It so far has had stops in Belgium, Sweden, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany and Basque Country/Spain, growing from initially 240 attendees to well over 1200.

In the coming days, we will announce the start of the Call for Proposals and Early Bird Ticket sales. Please watch our EuroPython blog for updates.

https://ep2018.europython.eu/

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

We are pleased to announce the last batch of cut videos for EuroPython 2017.

All 163 EuroPython 2017 videos are now online.

To see the new videos, please head over to our EuroPython YouTube channel and select the “EuroPython 2017″ playlist. The new videos start at entry 129 in the playlist.

We have also published a few videos from Monday, we had missed in the first batch.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference

We are pleased to announce the third batch of cut videos for EuroPython 2017.

To see the new videos, please head over to our EuroPython YouTube channel and select the “EuroPython 2017″ playlist. The new videos start at entry 96 in the playlist.

Next week we will release the last batch of videos currently marked as “private”. 

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference 

We are pleased to announce the third batch of cut videos for EuroPython 2017.

To see the new videos, please head over to our EuroPython YouTube channel and select the “EuroPython 2017″ playlist. The new videos start at entry 63 in the playlist.

In the coming two weeks, we will continue to release the other videos currently marked as “private”, in batches of one conference day per week. 

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference

We are pleased to announce the second batch of cut videos for EuroPython 2017.

To see the new videos, please head over to our EuroPython YouTube channel and select the “EuroPython 2017″ playlist. The new videos start at entry 31 in the playlist.

In the coming weeks, we will continue to release the other videos currently marked as “private”, in batches of one conference day per week. 

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference 

We are happy to announce a new format our Media Workgroup is experimenting with:

The EuroPython Podcast

The podcast intends to be a view on the European Python community. We will comment and talk about the latest news from the EuroPython Society last news, interview guests from the European Python community and discuss future Python events in Europe … and probably more (ideas are always welcome).

EuroPython Podcast Episode 1: RFP & Lasse Schuirmann

In this podcast we discussed about the Venue Request For Proposal (RFP) for EuroPython 2018, what venues we should aim for? How about a EuroPython 2018 Disneyland Paris?

We also had Lasse Schuirmann from coala.io. Here is how he describes himself:

I started programming when I was 14 years old. Since then I did various projects like an image processing algorithm, an artificial neural net or my (very small) home-grown kernel. You can find the code for my openly developed projects (which is an increasing number relative to the others) largely on GitHub (https://github.com/sils1297) or GitLab (https://gitlab.com/u/sils).

If you hear the podcast you might be interested in this link too : http://coala.io/starwars

More information about upcoming events mentioned in the podcast:

• Python San Sebastian, San Sebastian, Spain (October 6-8) - http://pyss17.pyss.org
  
• PyCon UK, Cardiff, Wales (October 26-30) - http://2017.pyconuk.org/
  
• PyCon DE (Germany, not Denmark), Karlsruhe, Germany, (October 25-27) - https://de.pycon.org/
  
• Python FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium (February 3 - 4, 2018) - https://www.python-fosdem.org/
  

Listen to the EuroPython Podcast Episode 1

• On iVoox: https://www.ivoox.com/en/episode-1-rfp-lasse-schuirmann-audios-mp3_rf_21167497_1.html
  
• On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/europython/europython-podcast-episode-1-rfp-lasse-schuirmann
  
• Directly on this page:
  

Helping with the podcast

We are just starting and this was our first episode. We promise we are working really hard to increase the audio quality - help on this issue is very welcome.

If you want to join the podcast as collaborator, nominate someone to be our next guest, announce your local python conference or/and give us feedback, please send an email to media-wg@europython.eu

Many thanks.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython Media Workgroup Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython Conference

We are pleased to announce the first batch of cut videos for EuroPython 2017. 

To see the videos, please head over to our EuroPython YouTube channel and select the “EuroPython 2017″ playlist.

Here’s our brand new teaser video for the conference:

In the coming weeks, we will release the other videos, in batches of one conference day per week.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference

EuroPython 2017 is almost over and so it’s time to ask around for what we can improve next year. If you attended EuroPython 2017, please take a few moments and fill in our feedback form:

EuroPython 2017 Feedback Form

We will leave the feedback form online for a few weeks and then use the information as basis for the work on EuroPython 2018 and also post a summary of the multiple choice questions (not the comments to protect your privacy) on our website. Many thanks in advance.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference

Our Beginners’ Day host Harry Percival cannot attend EuroPython due to personal reasons, but thanks to our brilliant community, we have managed to find trainers who are willing to help out and run the workshop:

• Ilian Iliev
• Juan Manuel Santos
• Petr Viktorin
• Lasse Schuirmann
• Michał Bultrowicz
• Maximilian Scholz
  

A big thanks for the quick offers of help. So once more, we’re pleased to present the…

Beginners’ Day Workshop

We will have a Beginners’ Day workshop, on Sunday, July 9th, from 10:00 until 17:00, at the Palacongressi di Rimini (Via della Fiera 23, Rimini), the same location as the main conference.

The session will be presented in English (although a few of the coaches do speak other languages as well).

Please bring your laptop, as a large part of the day will be devoted to learning Python on your own PC.

For more information and the session list, please see the Beginners’ Day workshop page on our website.

Enjoy,
–
EuroPython 2017 Team
EuroPython Society
EuroPython 2017 Conference