Hey hey!

To say that March went by quickly would be an understatement. Our volunteers have been working round the clock to put together a fantastic conference. We’ve been busy launching the Call for Proposals, Ticket sales and the AMA session for first-time speakers. Read along to find out more about them.

📝EuroPython Society Update

Ukraine Donation

Last month we asked you about how EuroPython Society can help our community in these trying times. We are pleased to inform you that we made a total of 10,000 EUR donation split equally between UNICEF and UNHCR. These donations will be matched 100% by a local Swedish organisation, thus doubling the amount.

Over the last month, we are relieved to hear many of our friends are safe. We'll continue with our everyday activities in supporting Python communities across Europe. If you have any suggestions on specific ways to directly help our affected communities, drop us a line at board@europython.eu

Trans*Code @ EuroPython

EuroPython Society champions diversity & inclusion. In line with our mission of making EuroPython and Python more accessible to everyone, especially the underrepresented folks, we have decided to host a Trans*Code event at our 2022 conference - Trans*Code is an informal hackday & workshop event which aims to help draw attention to transgender issues and opportunities.

The event is open to trans and non-binary folk, allies, coders, designers and visionaries of all sorts. We are privileged to have Noami Ceder on board to help and advise us with the organisation. Although she is experienced and awesome, it takes more than one to sow the seeds of pluralism.  

We want to make EuroPython 2022 an exceptionally welcoming place for trans people and other marginalised ones. If you identify as trans or non-binary and would like to volunteer your experience and time to help us organise the event and achieve our goal, please write to volunteers@europython.eu; or to our EuroPython Society chair, raquel@europython.eu (if you need to discuss something more private). If you are an ally, help us spread the word and lend us your support.

🍀EuroPython 2022 Conference Update

🗣Call for Proposals (CFP) & Financial Aid

The EuroPython 2022 Call for Proposals (CFP) has been extended!!

As a community conference, we are eager to hear about how you use Python in your professional and personal activities. All accepted speakers are eligible for a free conference ticket.

Submit and share your proposals in any format of your choice, be it talks, tutorials, workshops, panels, posters, helpdesks or other interactive sessions: https://europython.eu/cfp

Got any questions? Hit us up at helpdesk@europython.eu

💶Call for Sponsors

EuroPython 2022 will be held in-person this year, allowing our community to safely reconnect,  network, learn, share ideas, and create new relationships and partnerships.

Sponsors are what make EuroPython possible. Without our sponsors, EuroPython would not be the success that it is. With EuroPython back in-person this year, we’re excited to be able to provide our sponsors with opportunities to connect with and support the Python community, be face-to-face with talented developers and job recruits, access a large and diverse audience, and elevate their visibility and corporate identity within the Python community.

We’re offering 7 main packages with an aim to keep EuroPython accessible to most organisations keen to help the community.

In case of any queries, write to us at sponsoring@europython.eu

🎟Tickets

Ticket sales are open now! After months of planning, here are the three types we have on offer for you:

Combined Tickets: access to everything during the whole seven-day conference.
Conference Tickets: access to Conference & Sprint Weekend (13-17 July)
Tutorial Tickets: access to Workshop/Tutorial days (11-12 July) and the Sprint Weekend (16-17 July)

You can learn all the other details here: https://europython.eu/tickets

Free childcare: we provide free childcare service at the venue. If you are attending with your children, please register a ticket for yourself and select how many children will require childcare at checkout.

🥙Python Organisers’ Lunch @ Dublin

Organisers of other Python conferences around Europe, we invite you to attend lunch with us in Dublin! Let’s get together, share our joys and pains of running Python events, and chat about how the EPS can better support the community.

We are offering one free conference ticket per conference team. If you are interested, please email board@europython.eu to introduce yourselves and your event.

The lunch is planned for 14 or 15 July. We will be in touch with more details.

⚡Community Discounts

In addition, we would also like to support conferences and smaller user groups around Europe by offering a 10% discount across Business and Personal tiers of all ticket prices (excluding Early Bird sales).

If you are a regular participant to Python events, ask your local organisers to submit a request for the community discount, so they can distribute the vouchers to you.

💖Community Partners

We’re constantly looking for ways to strengthen our ties with the developers and communities on-ground. We’re psyched to announce our Community partners programme for communities across the island of Ireland.

As part of the programme, we’d like to connect with you and help you connect with like-minded others around Europe. Our team are planning many exciting activities. Apart from featuring you in our newsletter, we also invite your group attending the conference to the Irish Tech Community Mixer event, and guest post on our dev.to. By sharing, let’s amplify our knowledge and love for Python and Open Source in Ireland!

If you are interested, hit us at community@europython.eu

🌍New Website

EuroPython has a new face!! We’ve been collaborating with our friends at The Developer Society to put together a Dublin-esque theme for EuroPython.

We'd love to know how you find the new design, hit us up at plaza@europython.eu

🎗️Upcoming Python Events

Python Conference 2022 (Tuesday, 5th April 2022)

Data Science and Engineering Club: Workshop - Graph analytics and graph databases in Python (Saturday, 9th April 2022)

Python Ireland Meetup (Wednesday, 13th April 2022)

PyLadies Dublin Meetup (Tuesday, 19th April 2022)

🐍Cool Python Projects

Mercury - Mercury is a tool to convert your Python notebook into a web app and share it with anyone.
Viztracer - VizTracer is a low-overhead logging/debugging/profiling tool that can trace and visualise your python code execution.
Fast F1 - FastF1 is a python package for accessing and analysing Formula 1 results, schedules, timing data and telemetry.
Pythoncapi_compat  - can be used to write a C extension supporting a wide range of Python versions with a single code base.
nbdev - nbdev is a library that allows you to develop a python library in Jupyter Notebooks, putting all your code, tests and documentation in one place.

Hello fellow Pythonistas,

We apologise for the delay in the release of the February newsletter. Our heart goes out to everyone affected by the humanitarian crisis, especially members of our community. We stand by our community and will continue to provide any support we can whatever happens.
We'll continue with our everyday activities in supporting Python communities across Europe. If you have any suggestions on specific ways to directly help our community affected by the conflict, drop us a line at board@europython.eu

📝EuroPython Society Update

New-ish Team Structure

This year, we have made some changes to our traditional Workgroup Structure in place between 2015-2021. We aim to have a more balanced workload between contributors in different teams and give more autonomy to them while reducing the silos between teams.

We hope you like it. If you have any suggestions, email us: plaza@europython.eu.
Better yet, read on to see how to volunteer and make everything better together with us!

🍀EuroPython 2022 Conference Update

After 2 years of meeting our Python friends over Zoom, Matrix and Discord, we are now committed to an in-person conference (with a hybrid setup) at The CCD in Dublin on 11-17th July!

🗣Call for Proposals (CFP)

We are psyched to announce that we’ll launch our CFP on March 8th, 2022.

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 organisation. EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience.

More details to follow on our newsletter, blog, and socials. Stay tuned!

💲Call for Sponsors

EuroPython will be held in-person this year in the mega tech-hub Dublin.

Without our sponsors, EuroPython won’t be the success that it is. With us back in-person, we’re excited to provide our sponsors with opportunities to connect with and support the Python community.

With its combination of academic excellence, research labs, and world-leading technology companies, Ireland makes for a thriving place for deep tech. As a sponsor of EuroPython 2022, the opportunities to promote yourself and support a great open-source community here will be second to none.

We will release our exciting sponsor packages in early March. If you are interested in sponsoring drop us a line already at sponsoring@europython.eu

👩🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏽Call for Volunteers

EuroPython is organised and run by volunteers from the Python community. We always appreciate more help, more diverse voices to make the conference run smoothly and thoughtfully.

Donating your time for free is a big ask. But in return, you will be given a safe space to contribute your thoughts and work to shaping the conference to be for the community and of the community. And hopefully, you will also have a lot of fun in the process with our amazing team!

Interested in joining one of the teams? Hit us up at volunteers@europython.eu

🎫Tickets

We’re working hard to make EuroPython accessible to all. We’ll have more information about the tickets and the prices by mid-March.

Keeping the tradition from previous conferences, we’ll again offer free tickets to Python Core developers as part of our Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant and our newly established EuroPython Fellows. We will also have an open invitation to organisers responsible for other Python conferences around Europe to attend lunch with us at The CCD. Stay tuned for more information!

Have any questions in the meantime? Hit us up at helpdesk@europython.eu

🎗️ Upcoming Python Events

Python Ireland March Meetup (9th March 2022)
If you are like us who cannot wait any longer to meet more Pythonistas in Ireland, then join them in their March Meetup on Wednesday, 9 March 19:30- 21:30 online! You can submit a talk proposal here: http://python.ie/meetups

PyLadies Dublin x PyLadies London IWD Special (15th March 2022)
Celebrate International Women's Day with PyLadies Dublin & London virtual meetup. They have some interesting talks and activities planned. RSVP here:https://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/283826352/

Python Web Conference (21-26 March 2022)
The Python Web Conf is a virtual event designed to promote best practices for hard web production problems. Register & use our community sponsor code — EuroPython@PWC2022 — to get an EXTRA 15% off: https://t.co/BQsi9NOeXp

PyCon DE and PyData Berlin (11-13 April 2022)
PyCon DE and PyData Berlin is one month away! Check out their fantastic session list! We hear the tickets are selling fast, so grab yours now: https://ti.to/pysv/pyconde-pydata-berlin-2022

PyCamp Spain (15-18 April 2022)
PyCamp is a 4-day hackathon in the Spanish countryside. The event is as simple as getting together a small group away from the city with the basic requirements for the NERD to survive: Bed, Food, Energy, and the Internet. They also have Financial Aid options, hit them up at https://pycamp.es

🐍Cool Python Projects

1. Black - Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is finally out of beta and is stable. Go check it out!
2. Haystack - Haystack is an end-to-end framework that enables you to build powerful and production-ready pipelines for different search use cases.
3. Poetry-polylith-plugin - A plugin for the Poetry tool that enables the concept of workspaces and the Polylith architecture.
4. Bandit - Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.
5. Optimum - Optimum is an extension of HuggingFace Transformers, providing a set of performance optimization tools enabling maximum efficiency to train and run models on targeted hardware.
6. Tdda - Python module provides command-line and Python API support for the overall process of data analysis.

Welcome to the first EuroPython Newsletter! We hope to regularly share with you news about the EuroPython Society, updates on the upcoming EuroPython conference and cool Python things happening around us!

📝 EuroPython Society Update

EPS 2021-2022 Board

The last General Assembly (GA) took place on 10 Oct 2021, when our members elected a new board. You can learn more about each of them here or catch up with the GA recording.

The entire board are very excited to continue serving the community! Drop an email any time for any improvement ideas, fun projects they should know about or just say hi!

2021 Q4 Fellows

We are overjoyed to announce the Q4 EuroPython Fellows: Giovanni Bajo, John Pinner (posthumously), Rob Collins (posthumously), Valeria Pettorino, Harald Armin Massa, Marc-André Lemburg, Artur Czepiel and Patrick Guido Arminio.

You can read about their contributions to the Society and the conferences, and join us in raising a toast to them!

🍀 EuroPython 2022 Conference Update

We have resumed discussions with the team at The CCD in Dublin. Reacquainting ourselves with The CCD’s beautiful rooms, food & beverages offerings, we have our fingers firmly crossed for EuroPython 2022 to finally take place in Dublin on 11-17 July!

We have also been making some changes to the internal volunteer team structure. We hope to share more details in February and start working with you to build EuroPython 2022!

🎗️ Upcoming Python Events

FOSDEM 2022 (5-6 February 2022)

February is always made brighter because of FOSDEM! EuroPython 2021 learned much of how to do online from FOSDEM. "e are sure to be meeting, learning, and sharing online again this year! See you in the Python Track and beyond!

Python Ireland Meetup (9 February 2022 - Looking for Speakers)

If you are like us who cannot wait any longer to meet more Pythonistas in Ireland, then join them in their February Meetup on Wednesday, 9 February 18:30- 20:30 online! You can submit a talk proposal here: http://python.ie/meetups

PyLadies Dublin Meetup (15 February 2022 - Looking for Speakers)

In this Valentine’s special event, PyLadies Dublin teamed up with PyLadies Munich to share extra love with you! Submit your talk to speak at the special event here: https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/1JaDd_XRCQFKb3cp0akbz8Af1bg5

Python Web Conference (21-26 March 2022)

Early bird tickets for the 4th annual Python Web Conference are available until 1 February! You can use our community sponsor code — EuroPython@PWC2022 — to get an EXTRA 15% off: https://t.co/BQsi9NOeXp

PyCon DE and PyData Berlin (11-13 April 2022)

The wait is over and PyCon DE and PyData Berlin are returning in person! We hear the tickets are selling fast, so grab yours now: https://ti.to/pysv/pyconde-pydata-berlin-2022

The EPS cannot be more proud to be one of their Diversity & Financial Aid Sponsors this year!

PyCon Italia (2-5 June 2022)

If Python + Florence in June sounds appealing, then good news, everyone: PyCon Italy tickets are available for sale: http://pycon.it/en/tickets

As a long-term sponsor of Python Italia, it brings us joy that our grant has made it easier for our friends in the community to get together again.

GeoPython 2022 (13-15 June 2022 - CFP Open)

The EPS are sponsoring GeoPython for the 4th year and we are very excited to learn they are going hybrid this year! Their CFP is now open, so be sure to submit your talk: https://submit.geopython.net/geopython-2022/cfp

📺 Rewatch Past Events

Pyjamas Conference

The Pyjamas conference took place on 4-5 Dec 2021. It was a great event featuring many interesting Python talks. You can rewatch the laziest Python conference on https://pyjamas.live/.

Python Pizza Hamburg

Despite having to switch to a remote event, Python Pizza Hamburg made 11 Dec a superbly energising Saturday with a full day of lovely Python talks. We are so proud to have sponsored them a second time. If you missed it live, you can catch up now!

🐍 Cool Python Projects

We will be regularly asking you to share cool python projects you’ve come across through our Friday Recommendations tweets, so do look out for those! In the meantime, here are a few our EuroPython team have liked:

• dataklasses: a library that allows you to quickly define data classes using Python type hints.
• typingx: leverage typing types at runtime to check the shape of your data either in application code or while testing!
• Pixray: an image generation system that combines ideas including Perception Engines , CLIP guided GAN imagery with modifications such as CLIPDraw, and Useful ways of navigating latent space from Sampling Generative Networks.
• Spanish translation of Python Docs: 100% completed!🥳 You can learn more about how to contribute here: https://python-docs-es.readthedocs.io/es/3.10/CONTRIBUTING.html
• Hugging Face Machine Learning for Audio Study Group:  explore the field of applied Machine Learning in the Audio domain through a series of presentations, paper reading and discussions
• coqui TTS: a library for advanced Text-to-Speech generation. It comes with pretrained models for measuring dataset quality and is already used in 20+ languages for projects.
• Minitorch: a DIY teaching library for machine learning engineers who wish to learn about the internal concepts underlying deep learning systems. It is a pure Python re-implementation of the Torch API designed to be simple, easy-to-read, tested, and incremental.

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