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We are happy to announce the schedule for EuroPython 2017 in Rimini, Italy (July 9-16). The program WG has been working hard trying to fit all the sessions in the last few weeks.
With over 200 sessions, over 180 speakers, one day for workshops, 5 days of talks, training, keynotes, lightning talks, posters, help desks and open spaces, followed by 2 days of sprints, EuroPython will be one of the most exciting and vibrant Python events this year:
The schedule is available in table and list format. Please note that we are still applying small changes to the slots where necessary.
Many thanks to everyone who submitted proposals. EuroPython wouldnāt be possible without our speakers !
If you want to join the fun, be sure to get your tickets as soon as possible, since ticket sales usually start picking up quite a bit after we announce the schedule.
for a total of 203 sessions, arranged in 5 tracks from Monday, July 10, thru Friday, July 14, in addition to the Beginnersā Day and Django Girls workshops on Sunday, July 9, and the Sprints on the weekend July 15-16.
Please see the session list for details and abstracts. In case you wonder what Ā
poster, interactive and help desk sessions are, please check the call for proposals.Ā
Additional help desk slots available
We have 5 additional help desk slots available. If you are interested in arranging one, please see our Call for Proposals for details and contact program@europython.eu to submit your proposal. Organizers of help desks are eligible for a 25% ticket discount.
Schedule to be announced next week
Our program work group is now working hard on scheduling all these sessions. We expect to announce the final schedule by the end of next week.
We will use the same conference schedule layout as in previous years:
A typical conference day will open the venue at 08:30, have the first
session around 09:00 and end at 18:30. Lunch breaks are scheduled for
around 13:15. Please note that we don’t serve breakfast.
Aside: If you havenāt done yet, please get your EuroPython 2017 ticket soon. We will switch to on-desk rates in June, which will cost around 30% more than the regular rates.
You can now buy regular tickets for Europe’s largest Python conference.
After the early bird tickets sold out in just eight hours, standard rate tickets are now available:
Student: EUR 130.- incl. VAT (only available for students and postdocs; please bring your student card) Personal: EUR 375.- incl. VAT (for people enjoying Python from home) Business: EUR 555.- excl. VAT / 677.10 incl. VAT (for people using Python to make a living)
PS: please remember to submit your proposals for the conference. There are only a few days left for submission. The deadline is (Easter) Sunday, April 16th.
Tickets for EuroPython will be sold in three phases:
First, we’ll have a short early-bird ticket phase, where we’ll sell tickets at a very low rate. Only 200 tickets will be available for this rate, so be quick. It usually takes just a few days for them to sell out.
We’ll then switch to the regular rates, and closer to the conference, to the on-desk rates.
You can get tickets for the whole week, if you donāt want to miss anything, or buy day passes at the on-desk rates in July to attend only one or two days.
We further offer three different rates: āstudentsā (including PhD and postdoc researchers), āpersonalā and ābusinessā passes (for companies). Speakers and trainers will benefit of special discounts (see Call for Proposals for further details).
Take this opportunity and get your ticket now! Prices will increase the closer we get to the event.
Weāre 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, April 16, 23:59:59 CEST.
Please note that we will not have a second call for proposals as we
did in 2016, so if you want to enter a proposal, please consider to do
this in the next few days.
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
45 minutes
60 minutes
The Q&A session, if present, is included in the time slot. 3-5 Minutes for Q&A is a good practice. Please chose a time slot you see fit best to make your presentation in a compact way (So the audience may follow along but is not bored).
We will only have a limited number of 60 minute slots available, so please only choose these slots for more in-depth sessions or topics which require more background information.
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.
Panels
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 2017 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.
Interactive
This is a completely open 60-minute format. Feel free to make your suggestions. There are only twoĀ rules: it must be interactive, real-time human-to-human-interaction and of course compliant with the EuroPython Code of Conduct. If you want toĀ 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),Ā all in the same room in a row. You may choose one of these specialized tracks:Ā
Business Track (running a business, being a freelancer)
Django Track
Educational Track
Hardware/IoT Track
Science Track
Web Track
PyData @ EuroPython 2017
There will be a PyData track at this year’s conference. Please submit your papers for the PyData track through the EuroPython form and make sure to select “PyData” as sub community in the form.
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,ā¦)
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 trainings should, in general, be held 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 ourĀ 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/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.
Conference tickets will allow attending Beginnersā Day, keynotes,
talks, trainings, poster sessions, interactive sessions, panels and
sprints.
Please subscribe to our various EuroPython channels for updates on the conference. We will start putting out more information about the conference in the coming days.
We would like to share with you the sad news, that Rob Collins has passed away earlier this month, on November 2nd, after a short but intense illness.
Many of you may know Rob from the sponsored massage sessions he regularly ran at EuroPython in recent years and which he continued to develop, taking them from a single man setup (single threaded process) to a group of people setup by giving workshops (multiprocessing) and later on by passing on his skills to more leaders (removing the GIL) to spread wellness and kindness throughout our conference series.
His massages regularly raised more than a thousand dollars which were donated to the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to do even more good.
(Rob Collins giving a recursive massage at EuroPython 2013 in Florence)
Rob also gave a lot of thoughtful talks at the EuroPython conferences, always very cheerful, full of humor and many good insights. Hereās a selection:
After carefully reviewing all proposals we had received and intense
discussions with the teams, the EuroPython Society (EPS) is happy to
announce the decision to accept the proposal from the Italian on-site
team, backed by the Python Italia APS, to hold EuroPython 2017 in Rimini,
Italy.
The local Czech Python community:
Brno, the Czech Republic
Python San
Sebastian Society (ACPySS):
Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
The conference will be held at the Rimini PalaCongressi in
July 2017. The exact dates are still subject to negotiations with the
venue. We’ll announce them as soon as they are
finalized.
Until then, here’s the official EuroPython 2017 URL
for you to bookmark, where we’ll open up the website
in January 2017:
Until we have the 2017 sponsor brochure in place, please have a look at
our
2016 brochure. To give you an idea, these sponsors had signed up for
2016 and were more
than pleased with the outcome:
We will be preparing the launch of the website in January 2017. If
you’d like to sign up early as launch sponsor, please
contact us in the next two months.
As with the past conferences, we will try to make EuroPython 2017 as
effective as possible for sponsors by offering more booth space and
sponsors slots than ever before.
This is your chance to reach out to more than 1.100 enthusiastic and
highly motivated EuroPython attendees !
EuroPython Workgroups
Organizing a EuroPython event is a lot of work and with the workgroup
concept, we have opened up much of the organization for remote
participation.
If you want to help, please apply for one or more workgroups which
you feel match your interests and experience. If you’d
like to help, but don’t have enough experience, yet
are willing to learn, please apply as well. The application process is
described on our workgroups page.
