This year's edition of EuroPython begins with two days of training sessions as outlined in the schedule. Many of these last 3 hours, however, we would like to highlight two specific workshops available to those who want a deeper dive. They are most valuable for people new to the Python language and ecosystem, and focus on different things.
Django Girls Workshop
Returning for another year, Django Girls will be running a workshop that will teach you how to build your own blog from scratch over the course of the day. Attendees will be split into small groups, and there are no special requirements!
The Django Girls Workshop is scheduled on Monday, July 26th, starting at 09:30 CEST (07:30 UTC). Registration for this workshop is handled via application on their website, which details the criteria they look for in applicants.
Read on to learn more about the workshop and Django Girls.
Beginners' Day Workshop
There is also another workshop facilitated by Humble Data, serving as an introduction to how Python is used in the data science community. This also has no special requirements, and attendees will similarly be working in small, focused groups.
The Beginners’ Day Workshop run by Humble Data is scheduled for Tuesday, July 27, starting at 09:30 CEST (07:30 UTC). Attendance is free for conference and combined ticket holders.
Read on to learn more about the workshop and Humble Data.
In this talk I will go into some interesting stories of how (C)Python is made. We will go through a journey that will show you how Python is developed, who works on it, interesting battles against the most obscure of bugs and lots of unexpected situations and things to learn and to reflect on.
The use of Python in Africa is widely spread daily. In this talk, I will take you on a journey of what Python means to us in a Pan-African setting, lessons learned from organizing PyCon Africa, the people behind it, challenges we are facing and reflections on what works in our ecosystem.
HPC, Scientific Big Data, co-design, Python: beneath the buzzwords, bringing together academics from the most disparate research fields to work on a common product is no easy feat. What worked, what didn't, and lessons learned from the Helmholtz Analytics Framework experience.
Information of our Universe doesn't have to be just a two-dimensional snap shot. We can transform these data to be able to listen, feel, or (virtually) move through cosmic objects. Listen to the debris from an exploded star, walk through the core of our Milky Way in virtual reality, feel vibrations of a stellar nursery, and experience our universe anew.
While biking through the forest preserve on a dark December morning, I found myself suddenly staring face-to-face with Bambi. Picking myself off the ground with a broken wrist and an assortment of broken fingers, I embarked on an unexpected journey of discovery. Then the pandemic hit. In this talk, I provide a trip report.
Python is great but it definitely has faults too.In this talk, I will talk about some of the Python challenges as a language, and the current efforts in the community to alleviate them. I will also talk about how I plan to engage scientists and academics during my time on the PSF board, to highlight some of the research we are working on as a community.
Conference Booklet
Our designer Jessica has created a beautiful conference booklet for you to refer to during the conference and keep as a memory afterwards. It details all of the information regarding the schedule, talks, workshops and sponsors as a single PDF file.
The EuroPython Society (EPS) exists not only to run the EuroPython Conference, but also to support the wider Python community in Europe. It accomplishes this in many ways; here are two of them!
We have an open invitation for organisers responsible for other Python conferences around Europe to attend lunch with us. The aim is for us all to get to know each other and share advice on running events, as well as determine how we, the EPS, can support other events.
To enable this, we are offering one free conference ticket per conference team, to ensure that each event can send a representative. If you would like to avail of this, please email board@europython.eu to introduce yourselves, your event and the background of your team.
The lunch is planned for the Thursday or Friday of the event, and finalised details will be announced closer to the conference.
Community Discounts
In addition to the aforementioned lunch, we would also like to support individuals who attend conferences and smaller user groups around Europe. Although we cannot offer free tickets, we would like to offer discounted tickets to local communities.
If you are a regular attendee to Python events, please direct your local organisers to this post; they may submit a request for this community discount, and will be responsible for distributing them to the people who attend their events.
If you are responsible for organising Python events, please reach out to board@europython.eu in order to obtain a discount code for your attendees, encouraging them to engage with the global Python community.
These discount codes will provide 10% off all ticket prices; they are intended for groups of 30-50 members, but we can provide codes for larger groups as long as this requirement is mentioned in your initial contact email.
We are excited to have Bloomberg as one of our two Diamond Sponsors for EuroPython 2021. Bloomberg has more than a hundred million lines of Python code under management and engages heavily in supporting Python’s development and community.
You can participate in their free training session, visit their sponsor exhibit rooms, and talk with their staff to learn more about the Python ecosystem they have created.
Please continue reading to learn more about Bloomberg.
Bloomberg Celebrates 30 Years of Python + 20 Years of EuroPython
As we prepare for EuroPython 2021, we wanted to share a little bit about the long journey for Python within Bloomberg. We also want to recognize the 30th anniversary of this powerful programming language that we celebrated earlier this year, as well as the 20th edition of the EuroPython conference.
There’s nothing better than a milestone like this to reflect upon the impact our company’s engineers have had on this programming language.
As a company, we are proud of the journey we've been through. In less than a decade, we've gone from writing Python 2 code with little to no expertise to being a company that is leading the evolution of Python.
Today, Python is one of the most used languages at Bloomberg. With more than half a million Python files and a hundred million lines of Python code, we are running a Python program more than 3.7 billion times each month. The scale of our Python usage is massive!
By supporting this ‘shift left’ to test earlier in the development process (when changes are easier and less costly to make), we will help improve software quality throughout the Python Packaging ecosystem – something that will benefit the entire Python community.
Learn more about how corporate users of open source software can partner with the ecosystems who provide that software to improve the end-to-end experience for everyone during a live Upstream webinar featuring Kevin P. Fleming, Head of Open Source Community Engagement in Bloomberg’s CTO Office, on Wednesday, August 4th at 2 PM EDT.
We thank our more than 2,000 Python developers around the globe who have been part of this journey. The evolution of Python has been -- and still is -- driven by this amazing community of incredibly diverse Pythonistas. Keep an eye out for a bunch of them in the video interstitials that will be playing in between sessions throughout EuroPython 2021.
We wish you a great week and encourage you to check out the training sessions and talks that some of our Python engineers will be giving during this year’s EuroPython 2021 Online:
We are excited to have Microsoft as one of our two Diamond Sponsors for EuroPython 2021. Microsoft invests heavily into bringing you the best tooling for Python on Windows and Azure. They have also been a great supporter of EuroPython for many years. Thanks, Microsoft!
You can participate in their free training session, visit their sponsor exhibit rooms, and talk with their staff to learn more about the Python ecosystem they have created.
Please continue reading to learn more about Microsoft.
Another year, another EuroPython, and Microsoft is once again excited to be a sponsor! We love being able to play a part in bringing together a community of developers and data scientists using Python to learn about what’s new in the world of Python and tooling.
This year, to continue supporting this quickly growing community, we increased our sponsorship of the Python Software Foundation to the new top visionary level. We hope you consider donating to the PSF in order to help provide grants and resources for further development and adoption of Python as well as expanding Python outreach by funding the Python Ambassador Program.
On top of growing the Python community, Microsoft’s Developer Division aims to enable every developer. To help achieve that goal, we have worked hard to support Python in Visual Studio Code and in Azure:
Your default editing experience has been upgraded with the bundling of the Pylance extension, bringing you the most performant and user-friendly experience with rich features such as completions, auto-imports, function signature help, docstrings, contextual highlighting and more!
Look no further for PyTorch development! Powerful productivity features such as enhanced Tensor support, Data Slicing, autocompletions and doc-strings for PyTorch APIs and PyTorch Profiler integration have made VS Code the best tool for your PyTorch development.
VS Code’s Jupyter notebooks brought to you by the Jupyter extension has been completely overhauled this year to be fully integrated with VS Code! On top of a new modern design, you will now benefit from faster load times, built-in source control and diffing capabilities, notebook debugging, as well as the ability to have all your other favorite VS Code extensions light up within the notebook.
You can find the shop under the "EuroPython" menu entry on the conference website:
The shop is run on the Spreadshirt platform and so Spreadshirt will handle all payments, invoicing and shipping.
We have preconfigured a large number of items in the shop based on the designs for EuroPython 2021, but you can also customize the looks by clicking on the editing pen on the product pages.
Attendee T-Shirt Design
Any profit this creates will go towards the EuroPython financial aid budget, so will be put to good use.
Discounts
To make things a little easier for you, we have configured the following discounts Spreadshirt offers:
Unfortunately, they don’t support shipping to the US, Australia, Brasil and a few other countries on their European shop system for tax reasons. If you'd like to order from one of those countries, perhaps you can find a friendly Pythonista who would be willing to forward you the merch from Europe.
We are excited to have Optiver as our Keystone Sponsor for EuroPython 2021. Optiver uses Python to drive their market maker business in the financial industry.
You can participate in their free training session, visit their sponsor exhibit rooms, and talk with their staff to learn more about the Python ecosystem they have created.
Please continue reading to learn more about Optiver.
We’re market makers. In simple terms, we provide buy and sell prices for financial products on exchanges across the globe. By providing this liquidity we help make markets more efficient. Every day at Optiver is an opportunity to solve the seemingly impossible. What we build, code, develop and strategise pushes the boundaries of technological and analytical possibility in the world of electronic trading. Every team member has an integral part to play in this endeavour, which is why collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do. From traders, engineers, researchers, and support, we work in unison to find solutions to incredibly complex problems. It’s a melting pot of dynamic thought, simple execution and pioneering spirits, and we’re always looking for fresh new thinking to help us achieve our mission.
How Python Plays a Vital Role in our Business
Working in infrastructure, development, and operations, our engineers are driven by the need to understand technology at its deepest level. Some of the ways we use Python include interfacing with our physical systems, managing our production environments, and gaining insights into how they’re performing. It also plays a crucial role in our monitoring by collecting metrics data and raising alerts when anomalies are found in our trading systems. We also use it to manage our data pipelines including job scheduling, analytics, and quality control. The list goes on but what remains the same is how Python is crucial to solving the complexity of trading with elegant, simple solutions.
Optiver at EuroPython 2021
We’re extremely excited to once again be a part of EuroPython. Not only as a keystone sponsor but also as a participant looking to share ideas and learn from the many innovative minds in attendance. We’ll be hosting two talks, including a workshop - Activate Your Interest in Coding for Algorithmic Trading, where developers will get the chance to trade on Optibook, our proprietary simulated exchange. You’ll learn the fundamentals of trading such as what are order-books, order-types, liquidity, positions, and gain insights into the different trading systems involved. You’ll then get to test your abilities with Python by creating a profitable trading strategy that can handle the pressures of the market. We look forward to hosting you at our workshop, so please join us and come learn more about the exciting space in which we operate.
If you already have a conference ticket, but would like to switch to a combined ticket, please email helpdesk@europython.eu. You will receive a discount coupon that allows you to upgrade your ticket to a combined one.
Conference Ticket Training Sessions
Additionally, if you have purchased a Conference only Ticket, you are welcome to join the 4 sponsored workshops in the Argument-Clinic track!
For total beginners, we have teamed up with Humble Data to deliver a Beginners' Day Workshop, specifically for newcomers to Python. This is also accessible for Conference only Ticket holders and is scheduled for Tuesday.
We are also working on a Django Girls Workshop, which will be announced separately. We’ve scheduled this for Monday.
If you are going to attend the conference as a team, we offer the following volume discounts as a thank you:
5 business tickets for the price of 4
10 business tickets for the price of 8
15 business tickets for the price of 11
In addition to the above offer, we'll also send out a mention on Twitter welcoming your team.
Your company should email sponsoring@europython.eu to apply. You will then receive a coupon code and the welcome tweet will be handled by us.
You can also visit the ticket shop to view the different ticket types and this year’s schedule to see the timetable for EuroPython 2021 in your local time zone.
In 2019, we have set up the Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant, to make it easy for Python Core Developers to attend EuroPython, but also to give something back to the core team and add a perk to make core development more attractive.
If you are a core developer, please check our grant page for details on how to apply.
PS: If you are a core developer and want to organize a core sprint, workshop, language summit or similar event at EuroPython 2021, please get in touch with our program workgroup soon, so that we can help arrange things.
PPS: If you want to become a core developer, please have a look at the Python Dev Guide.
