Just in case you didn’t find enough Easter eggs today, we have a whole basket of them waiting for you: the first set of accepted sessions for EuroPython 2016 in Bilbao.
From the around 300 proposals, 156 sessions were chosen for EuroPython 2016 in the first round:
125 talks
20 training sessions
11 local track talks
We still have several other session types coming (helpdesks, posters, panels, interactive sessions). These will announced separately.
Early in June we will have a short second Call for Proposals, limited to hot topics and most recent developments in software and technology. We will announce details soon.
Many thanks to everyone who submitted proposals. EuroPython wouldn’t be possible without our speakers.
The program work group will now work on the schedule. Given the number of sessions, this may take a while, but we’ll try to get it done as quickly as possible. The WG is also putting together a submission waiting list, which will be used to fill slots of speakers who cannot attend. Speakers on the waiting list will be contacted by the end of next week.
You can search for topics and communicate your personal interest by casting your vote for each talk and training submission on our talk voting page:
Talk voting will be open until Sunday, March 20.
The program workgroup (WG) will then use the talk voting results as basis for their talk selection and announce the list of accepted talks late in March and the schedule shortly thereafter in April.
Having received almost 300 great proposals for talks, trainings, helpdesks and posters, we now call out to all attendees
to vote for what you want to see on the conference schedule.
Please note that you have to have a ticket for EuroPython 2016, or have submitted a talk proposal yourself, in order to participate.
You will be able to search for topics and communicate your personal interest by casting your vote for each talk and training submission on our talk voting page:
Talk voting will be open from Monday, March 14, until Sunday, March 20.
The program workgroup (WG) will then use the talk voting results as basis for their talk selection and announce the list of accepted talks late in March and the schedule shortly thereafter in April.
In short, we will be giving out grants in three categories:
Free tickets
Travel costs
Accommodation
Anyone who wants to attend EuroPython 2016 can apply, including people who have already purchased tickets. We want to make the event affordable for as many people as possible.
We
are still looking for sponsors to increase the budget we have available
for financial aid. If your company would like to sign up as financial
aid sponsor, please contact the sponsors team.
We will be switching to regular ticket prices very soon now:
Student: EUR 120.00 (only available for students; please bring your student card)
Personal: EUR 360.00 (for people enjoying Python from home)
Business: EUR 580.00 (for people using Python to make a living)
but still have a few early-bird tickets left.
If you buy until tomorrow at midnight (Tuesday, March 1st, 23:59 CET), you can save up to EUR 200 on early-bird prices, compared to the above regular prices:
We have opened up the early-bird sales today and tickets are selling fast. The first 100 early-bird tickets, we have available, will be gone in an hour. If you want to benefit from reduced ticket prices too, please register soon.
Our early bird ticket sales are limited to 300 tickets. Regular ticket sales will start shortly after we’ve ended the early bird sales.
After the Call for Proposals for EuroPython 2016 last week, we are now calling out to everyone interested in signing up as EuroPython attendee early. You will be able to benefit from reduced ticket prices for a short period of time.
Our early bird ticket sales are limited to 300 tickets. Regular sales start shortly after we’ve ended the early bird sales.
We will be opening the flood gates on Tuesday, 23.02.2016, 09:00 CET, so set your alarms to make sure you can secure your ticket. Experience shows that early bird tickets sell out quickly.
PS: Remember to submit your proposals for the conference. There are less than two weeks left.
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.
Submissions will be open until Sunday, March 6, 23:59:59 CET.
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. 150 slots
These are standard “talks with slides”, allocated in slots of
30 minutes (ca. 50% of the talk slots)
45 minutes (ca. 50% of the talk slots)
60 minutes (only ca. 5 slots)
depending on your preference and scheduling constraints. A Q&A session is held at the end of the talk and included in the time slot.
Trainings / 20 slots.
Deep-dive into a subject with all details. These sessions are 2.5 - 3.5 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 two trainings rooms is 70 and 180 seats.
PanelsNEW in 2016
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 60-90 minutes long. We have introduced this interactive format for EuroPython 2016 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.
InteractiveNEW in 2016
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 / approx. 30 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 / 10 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 tracks:
Business Track (running a business, being a freelancer)
Django Track
Educational Track
Hardware/IoT Track
Science Track
Web Track
PyData @ EuroPython 2016
There will be a as satellite event at this year’s conference. Please submit your papers for PyData through the EuroPython form, make sure to select “PyData” as sub community in the form. PyData will take place in at the same time as EuroPython 2016, the exact date will be announced soon.
Discounts for speakers and trainers
Since EuroPython is a not-for-profit community conference, it is not possible to pay out rewards for talks or trainings. Speakers of regular talks, panels, posters and interactive will instead have a special 25% discount on the conference ticket. Trainings get a 100% discount to compensate for the longer preparation time. Please note that we can not give discounts for helpdesks.
Topics and Goals
Suggested topics for EuroPython presentations include, but are not limited to:
Core Python
Alternative Python implementations: e.g. Jython, IronPython, PyPy, and Stackless
Python libraries and extensions
Python 2 to 3 migration
Databases
Documentation
GUI Programming
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
Web-based Systems
Use Cases
Failures and Mistakes
Presentation goals are usually some of the following:
Introduce the audience to a new topic
Introduce the audience to new developments on a well-known topic
Show the audience real-world usage scenarios for a specific topic (case study)
Dig into advanced and relatively-unknown details on a topic
Compare different solutions available on the market for a topic
Language for Talks & Trainings
Talks and training should, in general, be held in English.
However, since EuroPython is hosted in Bilbao and EuroPython has traditionally always been very open to the local Python communities, we are also accepting a number of talks and trainings in Spanish and Basque.
The talk submission form lets you choose the language you want to give the talk in.
If you speak Basque/Spanish and don’t feel comfortable speaking English, please submit the talk title and abstract directly in Spanish/Basque. If you are able to give the talk in multiple languages, please submit one proposals for the talk in each language, with title and description adjusted accordingly. Please note that tags are only available 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. Whether trainings will be recorded as well, is not yet clear. Please contact our Program WG Helpdesk for details, if you would rather not like your training to be 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.
We are pleased to announce the launch of our all new EuroPython 2016
website. Over the last few weeks, we have been busy talking to sponsors and getting the
website prepared for the launch.
Many thanks go to our launch sponsors who have signed up early to
give us that extra boost in motivation to get the conference and it’s
website set up.
You may wonder why we’re having an extra day for the conference. Here’s the plan:
In 2015, we introduced Beginners’ Day as a new format to EuroPython
providing special introductions and tutorials for Python beginners. The
project was a great success.
For the 2016 edition, we are planning to dedicate Sunday before the main
conference as Beginner’s Day, so we’ll have the following conference layout:
Sunday, July 17: Beginners’ day & registration
Monday, July 18 - Friday, July 22: Main conference & trainings
Saturday, July 23 - Sunday, July 24: Sprints
Looking for Launch Sponsors
We will launch the conference website in December. If your company
would like to sponsor EuroPython 2016 and get extra attention by being
one of our launch sponsors, please check our sponsor page for details.
as satellite event at this year’s conference. Please submit your papers for PyData through the EuroPython form, make sure to select “PyData” as sub community in the form. PyData will take place in at the same time as EuroPython 2016, the exact date will be announced soon.
