EuroPython would not be possible and as affordable as it is without the help of our sponsors.
Reach out to 1200+ attendees in Europe
If your company is using Python, sells a product or service in the Python space or looking to hire excellent Python programmers, we would like to ask you to consider EuroPython 2015 as your platform to reach out to 1200+ attendees from all around the world, with special focus on Europe.
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 from Monday, March 16, until Tuesday, April 14.
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.
First time speakers are especially welcome.
There are four different kinds of contributions that you can present at EuroPython:
Regular talk / 170 slots.
These are standard “talks with slides”, allocated in slots of
30 minutes (80 slots)
45 minutes (85 slots)
60 minutes (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.
Hands-on training / 20 slots.
These are advanced training sessions to dive into the subject with all details. These sessions are 2.5 - 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 two trainings rooms is 70 and 180 seats.
Posters / 25 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 / 5 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. People looking for help will sign up for a 30 minute slot, get there and talk to you. There is no specific preparation needed; you just need to be proficient in the technology you run the helpdesk for.
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 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 to submitters of posters or helpdesk proposals.
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
Network Programming
Open Source Python projects
Packaging Issues
Programming Tools
Project Best Practices
Embedding and Extending
Education, Science and Math
Web-based Systems
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.
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 our EuroPython 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 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
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.
You will be able to submit your proposals through the EuroPython website during these 4 weeks.
We have these types of presentations available for submission:
Talks: 170 slots available (80x 30min, 85x 45min, 5x 60min)
Trainings: 20 slots
Posters: 25 slots
Help desks: 5 slots
Please note that the exact number of submissions we can accept depends on schedule and room requirements, so the above numbers are only estimates. Talk times include time for questions.
The full Call for Proposal with all details will be made available on Monday, 2015-03-16. We are publishing these dates early because we’ve been getting a lot of requests for the CFP dates.
Talks/Trainings in Spanish and Basque
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.
All other talks/trainings should be held in English.
Talk voting
As in 2013, we will again have talk voting, which means that attendees who have already registered will get to see the talk submissions and can vote on them. 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.
We are very happy to announce that early-bird tickets are sold out!
The tickets were sold in less than a week!
We’d like to thank everyone for the fantastic feedback. Given the rush to the early-bird tickets (we sold 100 tickets in the first 4 hours), we recommend to not wait too long before getting your standard ticket. It is likely, we’ll sell out early again this year.
At the same time, we have been finalizing the budget for the conference, which now allows us to set the standard ticket prices for this year. We tried to keep student prices as low as possible, since we would like to see more students at the conference:
Early-bird tickets are nearly sold out but we still have a few left. If you want to save some money, you can still get these tickets at highly reduced prices.
After the early-bird tickets have sold out, we’ll close the registration for a short while and then reopen it with the standard prices. Given the rush to early-bird tickets, we expect the conference to sell out again this year, so don’t wait too long before getting one.
We would like to thank everyone who bought a ticket and put trust in us to make the conference an interesting and inspiring event - even without knowing the talks and topics which will be covered in the conference.
We’d also like to apologize for the Paypal payment system not working yesterday. This is fixed, so you can use Paypal to pay your tickets if you don’t want to use a credit card.
As announced earlier today, we have opened the early-bird ticket sales for EuroPython 2015. You can save up to 25% on the early-bird tickets, so book your tickets while they last:
We are pleased to announce the launch of our all new EuroPython 2015 website. Over the last few weeks, we have been very busy setting up the infrastructure, talking to sponsors, getting the logo designed and the site prepared for the launch. So here it is:
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 ramped up in only 6 weeks:
But that’s not all. We’ve also prepared an extra bonus for you:
Early-bird Ticket Sales
Later today, at 14:00 CET, we will be starting the early-bird ticket sales. Set your alarms for right after lunch to grab your tickets. We only have 350 early-bird tickets available and experience shows that they will be sold out fast.
PS: We’d like to thank our friends at Python Italia for making the EuroPython website code used for 2011-2013 available for us to use.
For EuroPython 2015 we have chosen to use a new code of conduct (CoC) that is based on the PyCon UK Code of Conduct.
We think that it reads much nicer than the one we had before, while serving the same purpose. In summary:
Be nice to each other
We trust that attendees will treat each other in a way that reflects the widely held view that diversity and friendliness are strengths of our community to be celebrated and fostered.
Furthermore, we believe attendees have a right to:
be treated with courtesy, dignity and respect;
be free from any form of discrimination, victimization, harassment or bullying;
enjoy an environment free from unwelcome behavior, inappropriate language and unsuitable imagery.
