EuroPython Blog

The talk “The Sorry State of SSL" will be given by Hynek Schlawack.

TLS is the best technology we have for securing our communications. It comes with many sharp edges though. This talk tries to jumpstart a rough understanding and these links should help you to complete the picture.

Hynek Schlawack works as software and infrastructure engineer for the Potsdam-based hosting provider Variomedia. At EuroPython 2013 in Florence, Hynek gave a well recognized talk  about ”Solid Python Deployments for Everbody“. He also belongs to the Python core developer team.

The talk “For lack of a better name(server): DNS Explained” will be given by Lynn Root.

The Domain Name Server (DNS) system became a complex and hard to understand component of the internet. Lynn Root will explain in her talk how DNS works and how to communicate with DNS (through Python), she will cover client-side and server-side security issues and finally demo how to setup a working DNS server using Python and Twisted within 10 minutes.

Lynn Root works as a Partner Engineer for Spotify, she is founder of the PyLadies in San Francisco and board member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF).

They write: 

As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, we are pleased to offer Women in Tech Travel and Conference Grants for EuroPython 2014 conference.

Overview

They are offering the winners: 

• Free registration for the conference
• Up to 1000 EUR towards travel costs (to be paid after the conference)

To be eligible for a conference grant, the candidate must:

• Be a female working in or studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or technical field related to the conference subject
• Have a strong academic background with demonstrated leadership ability
• Attend the core days of the main conference

How To Apply

To apply, please submit this form by the 23th June deadline.

Winners and claim process

All applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by email, approximately 3–4 weeks prior to the event. If you are selected, you will receive additional information on how to register for the conference and how to receive your travel grant.

The training “Iterators, Generators and Decorators” will be given by Mike Müller.

Mike’s tutorial is a systematic introduction to the topics iterators, generators and decorators. It covers all relevant information with a focus on practical applications for common tasks. Attendees will learn how iterators, generators and decorators work and how to write better and more efficient programs with them. If you are new to these topics or tried but got confused about functions that return functions that return functions, this tutorial will help you to understand the how and the why.

Mike Müller is the EuroPython 2014 chair and also hosted the PyCon DE 2011 and 2012. He is originator and lead organizer of EuroSciPy 2008 and 2009, Chair Board Python Software Verband e.V. In addition he works Python Trainer and CEO of Python Academy GmbH & Co. KG. and tought Python to thousands of people over the last ten years.

The talk “Farewell and Welcome Home: Python in Two Genders” will be given by Naomi Ceder.

Naomi Ceder talks about her transition from male to female while staying involved in the Python community. She discusses that transition and explores how she found life in Python as a woman different from her former life as a man and the lessons about diversity she learned.

Naomi Ceder is author of Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed., worded many years a teacher of Python in schools, organizer of PyCon North America Education summit and Lead Architect for RazorOccam/Zoro Tools Europe. She describes herself as Pythonista, trans woman, gender-hacker, intersectional trans feminist.

The talk “Growing Open Source Seeds” will be given by Kenneth Reitz.

The talk will given an in-depth review of the stages that most open source projects go though, and the decisions their maintainers face. Requests will be used as an example; lessons learned and best practices will be covered.

Kenneth is a highly regarded Python developer and well-known for his “requests - HTTP for humans” module.  He works for Heroku as a software engineer but he is also a passioned photographer and artist in general. 

We want to remind you that the standard ticket sale ends on 23/06/2014. So there are four weeks remaining for purchasing tickets to the normal rate. The on-desk ticket rate applies for all purchases after 23/06/2014. So hurry up to get your ticket(s) within the next four weeks.

This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for submitting applications for Financial Assistance is 15.05.2014 (23:59:59, German time).

We apologize for running late with the EuroPython 2014 schedule but we are now almost finished with the training and talk selection.

The complete list of EuroPython trainings can be found here.

The list of accepted talks is almost finished. Three remaining talk slots (out of 102) will be filled shortly. In addition there will be eight sponsored talks (given by EuroPython sponsors, TBA) and six keynotes (with four keynote speakers already announced and two others TBA).

A more detailed schedule with an overview of the talks by days and rooms will be published shortly.

We are pleased to announce that Constanze Kurz, spokeswoman of the German Chaos omputer Club will give a keynote speach at EuroPython 2014.

One year of Snowden, what’s next?

Since June 2013, disclosed by Edward Snowden, we learn more and more facts about American and British spies’ deep appetite for information, economic spying and the methods they use to collect data. They systematically tapped international communications on a scale that only few people could imagine. But what are the consequences for societies when they now know about the NSA metadata repository capable of taking in billions of “events” daily to collected and analyze? Is there a way to defend against an agency with a monstrous secret budget?

About Constanze Kurz

Constanze Kurz works at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin as a computer scientist. She is the spokeswoman of the German Chaos Computer Club, Europe’s largest hacker group. She is an expert on surveillance techniques and co-author of technical analyses on voting computers, data retention and anti-terror laws for the German Constitutional Court.