Conference tickets will allow attending Beginners’ Day, keynotes,
talks, trainings, poster sessions, interactive sessions, panels and
sprints.
Please subscribe to our various EuroPython channels for updates on the conference. We will start putting out more information about the conference in the coming days.
After carefully reviewing all proposals we had received and intense
discussions with the teams, the EuroPython Society (EPS) is happy to
announce the decision to accept the proposal from the Italian on-site
team, backed by the Python Italia APS, to hold EuroPython 2017 in Rimini,
Italy.
The local Czech Python community:
Brno, the Czech Republic
Python San
Sebastian Society (ACPySS):
Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
The conference will be held at the Rimini PalaCongressi in
July 2017. The exact dates are still subject to negotiations with the
venue. We’ll announce them as soon as they are
finalized.
Until then, here’s the official EuroPython 2017 URL
for you to bookmark, where we’ll open up the website
in January 2017:
Until we have the 2017 sponsor brochure in place, please have a look at
our
2016 brochure. To give you an idea, these sponsors had signed up for
2016 and were more
than pleased with the outcome:
We will be preparing the launch of the website in January 2017. If
you’d like to sign up early as launch sponsor, please
contact us in the next two months.
As with the past conferences, we will try to make EuroPython 2017 as
effective as possible for sponsors by offering more booth space and
sponsors slots than ever before.
This is your chance to reach out to more than 1.100 enthusiastic and
highly motivated EuroPython attendees !
EuroPython Workgroups
Organizing a EuroPython event is a lot of work and with the workgroup
concept, we have opened up much of the organization for remote
participation.
If you want to help, please apply for one or more workgroups which
you feel match your interests and experience. If you’d
like to help, but don’t have enough experience, yet
are willing to learn, please apply as well. The application process is
described on our workgroups page.
We run EuroPython with a number of workgroups, many of which work remotely and only meet in person at the conference, the EuroPython Workgroups:
On-site Team WG
Oier Echaniz Beneitez (Chair)
Borja Ayerdi Vilches
Darya Chyzhyk
Ion Marqués
José David Nuñez
Alexandre Savio
Luis Javier Salvatierra
Conference Administration WG
Marc-Andre Lemburg (Chair)
Borja Ayerdi Vilches
Vicky Twomey-Lee
Stéphane Wirtel
Finance WG
Borja Ayerdi Vilches (Chair, EPS Treasurer)
Darya Chyzhyk
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Anthon van der Neut (EPS Treasurer)
Stéphane Wirtel
Sponsors WG
Fabio Pilger (Chair)
Alexandre Manhães Savio
Borja Ayerdi Vilches
Ricardo Manhães Savii
Raúl Cumplido
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Communications WG
Marc-Andre Lemburg (Chair)
Darya Chyzhyk
Raúl Cumplido
Alexander Hendorf
Kerstin Kollmann
Leire Ozaeta
Vicky Twomey-Lee
Chris Ward
Stéphane Wirtel
Support WG
Ernesto Arbitrio
Christian Barra
Anna Bednarska
Aisha Bello
Oier Beneitez
Darya Chyzhyk
Raúl Cumplido
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Anthon van der Neut
Alexandre Savio
Stéphane Wirtel
Alejandro Villamarín
Financial Aid WG
Darya Chyzhyk
Vicky Twomey-Lee
Manuel Graña Romay
Stéphane Wirtel
Marketing/Design WG
Darya Chyzhyk
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Alexandre Savio
Miren Urteaga Aldalur
Program WG
Alexandre Savio (Chair)
Alexander Hendorf (Co-chair)
Christian Barra
Raúl Cumplido
Moshe Goldstein
Dougal Matthews
Chris Ward
Web WG
Christian Barra (Chair)
Oier Beneitez
Patrick Guido
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Alexandre Savio
Stéphane Wirtel
Media WG
Anthon van der Neut (Chair)
Luis Javier Salvatierra
Code of Conduct WG
Darya Chyzhyk
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Anthon van der Neut
Leire Ozaeta
If you are interested in helping with EuroPython 2017, we invite you to join the workgroups. Please go to the EuroPython Workgroups page and follow the instructions there to get signed up. Many thanks !
In addition to several of the EuroPython Workgroup members, we
usually have quite a few attendees helping us as Beginners’ Day or
DjangoGirls trainers, session manager, room manager, at the registration
desk, bag stuffing and during set up and tear down of the conference, our on-site volunteers.
On-Site Volunteers
The following people helped on-site with EuroPython 2016 (in alphabetical order):
Achim Domma
Agustín Herranz
Alejandro Villamarin
Aleksey Kutepov
Alessandro Amici
Alexander Hendorf
Alexandre Saint
Alexandre Savio
Andreas Klostermann
Anjana Vakil
Ankit Bahuguna
Anna Bednarska
Axel Rosen
Christian Barra
Christian Trebing
Conrad Ho
Danny Engelbarts
Dougal Matthews
Eider Sanchez
Ernesto Rico-Schmidt
Gilberto Goncalves
Harald Armin Massa
Harry Percival
Helen Sherwood-Taylor
Helen Williams
Hugo Suarez
Izarra Domingo Cansino
Izaskun Boada Garcia
Javier Bores
Jean-Cristophe Leyder
Juan Luis Cano
Justyna Janczyszyn
Justyna Kaluzka
Ken Hu
Leire Ozaeta
Leticia Hernández
Lorena Mesa
Maarten
Mai Gimenez
Maider Alberich
Maksim Sorokin
Mariano Anaya
Michal Bultrowicz
Mihai Iachimovschi
Moshe Goldstein
Nick Tollervey
Paola Katherine Pacheco
Pawel Lewtak
Peiken Hu
Peter Hoffmann
Philipp Konrad
Rachel Willmer
Ralph Heinkel
Raphael Pierzina
Ricardo Bánffy
Sathvik Katam
Sebastian Neubauer
Stephane Wirtel
Steven Van den Berghe
Tiago Montes
Tom Viner
Uwe Schmitt
Victoria Martínez de la Cruz
Yamila Moreno
Many thanks to all of you. We are looking forward to to seeing all of you again next year for EuroPython 2017.
EuroPython 2016 is almost over and so it’s time to ask around for
what we can improve next year. If you attended EuroPython 2016,
please take a few moments and fill out our 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 2017 and also
post a summary of the multiple choice questions (not the comments to
protect your privacy) on our website. Many thanks in advance.
We are very grateful to the Python Software Foundation (PSF) as our financial aid sponsor. Together with the budget we allocated, this has allowed us to provide finance aid to people who otherwise would not have been able to attended the conference or give a talk.
We are glad to announce that funds devoted to financial aid have risen by 30% compared to 2015.
Some statistics
Totals Total requested applications: 166 Total accepted grants: 67 (40% of submitted applications) Total financial aid budget: EUR 25,000 EUR 13,310 from the PSF, EUR 11,690 from the conference budget.
We would like to draw your attention to the following sessions by the
EuroPython Society and the Python Software Foundation, two of our
Python community organizations working for you.
Each year, we are running our General
Assembly at the conference, reporting on our activities and, probably
more interesting for many of you, a session to introduce the
organization concepts we’re using to run these conferences.
Both sessions are open to all EuroPython attendees.
If you’d like to help us with the organization, please attend the EuroPython 2017 session. You can also become a member of the EPS and then vote at the General Assembly.
Python Software Foundation Session
The
Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the organization behind Python
itself. It holds the IP rights, runs PyCon US and tries to help the
Python community world-wide to run events, user groups, workshops or
Python related programming projects by giving out grants.
This
year, we’re again having a PSF Members meeting at EuroPython, where the
PSF reports on its activities, new plans and organizational changes.
Many of our sponsors are looking for new employees, so EuroPython
2016 is not only an exciting conference, but may very well also be your
chance to find the perfect job you’ve always been looking for.
If
you want to receive the sponsor messages directly to your inbox, please
log in to the website and enable the recruiting message option in your privacy settings.
For this year, we have reconsidered the way we give out badges to try to reduce the queue lengths and your waiting time.
Badges distributed based on ticket ID
To make finding badges easier, we have printed the ticket ID on each badge and will distribute badges based on ticket ID ranges. Each queue will be for one ticket ID range.
Finding your ticket ID
We will send all attendees an email with their ticket ID, but you can also look on the website to find your ticket ID. Simply log in and then check the ticket page to find your ticket preview:
The ticket ID is listed at the bottom of the ticket preview.
If you forget your ticket ID, no worries. We will have a number of volunteers at the registration desk with a mobile app to quickly search the ticket database for your ticket. Simply ask them to help you find the right queue and you’re all set.
Should they have trouble finding your ticket in the database, you’ll be asked to visit the registration counter to sort out any issues.
Please check your ticket
Please note that in order to find your tickets, the person who bought the ticket will have to have assigned the ticket to you, as we’ve outline in a previous blog post.
We already know that there are a number of tickets which have not been assigned to the final attendee, so please double check that you can see your ticket on the ticket page after logging in to the website.
If you cannot find your ticket on that page, please ask the person who bought the ticket for you. The process for assigning the ticket is described in our blog post on the topic. If all else fails, simply write to our helpdesk@europython.eu for help.
Opening times of the registration desks
These are the planned opening times of the registration desks where you can pick up your badge (or buy conference tickets or day passes).
Sunday, July 17
In the afternoon at 16:00, we will open the registration desk at the main conference venue, the Euskalduna Conference Center (ECC). It’ll stay open until around 19:00. You will be able to pick up the badges for your already purchased tickets as well as buy new ones at this registration desk.
We will do the bag stuffing on Sunday, starting at around 16:00 at the ECC. You’re welcome to come and help. The stuffed bags will then be distributed starting on Monday.
We’re experimenting with a new format at this year’s EuroPython conference: a maker area reserved for attendees who want to build things in hardware, controlled by Python, e.g. robots, sensors, remote controls, electronic badges, mesh networks, etc.
For this purpose, we have created a zone with tables, power outlets and chairs in the exhibit hall, where you can get working on your projects during the conference: the
We will also have a few workshops in this area to create some more excitement around it, but in the end,
it is YOU, the attendees,
who’ll have to make it work.
Show off your work
We hope you enjoy the spirit and possibilities and hey, can then show off your cool gadgets to more than a thousand Python friends - in a lighting talk, an open space session or directly at the maker area.
Bring your tools and gadgets
You will likely have to bring along some tools and electronics for the maker area, so this blog post is also meant as reminder to add these things to your packaging list for EuroPython 2016.
We have found a few shops near the venue where you can buy things you may need. They are listed in the conference app and will also go on the maker area web page.
>>> Please see below for a special deal we have for EuroPython attendees
You can also find the Fine Arts Museum in Bilbao, with exhibitions of Tucker and 50s fashion in France, in addition to other masterpieces. It is very close to the conference venue.
We have compiled more information about these two museums on these pages:
Special offer for EuroPython attendees: Avoid long queues
If you want to avoid long queues at the Guggenheim Museum, you can benefit from
getting a ticket at the conference desk.
We have acquired a block of tickets and will give them away for free, if you donate at least EUR 10
to the EuroPython conference financial aid budget for next year.
That’s less
than the regular ticket price and you get the additional warm fuzzy
feeling of helping others as bonus :-)
Donations can be made in cash at the conference desk.
