In the last two weeks, we have
discussed and investigated concepts around running this year’s
EuroPython conference as an online conference. We have looked at
conference tools, your feedback, drafted up ideas on what we can do to make the event interesting and what we can accomplish given our
limited resources.
Today, we are happy to announce that we
will be running
EuroPython 2020 from July 23 - 26
2020 as an online conference
We are planning the following
structure:
2 conference days with keynotes,
talks, lightning talks, poster session (Thursday and Friday)
2 sprint days with multiple sprint teams (Saturday and
Sunday)
Attending the conference days will
require a ticket, participating in the sprint days will be free.
We will publish additional information
on the new format as it becomes available. A few updates for today
(more details will follow in separate blog posts):
Call for Papers (CFP)
With the new plan in place, we will
extend and retarget the CFP
we had been running in the last three weeks to the online setup.
Please note that we will not have
training sessions at EuroPython 2020. We will have keynotes, 30 and
45-minute talks, panels, interactive sessions, as well as try to come up with a format for doing
posters and lightning talks.
Unlike for our in-person event,
speakers will get free tickets to the event, since we don’t have to
cover catering costs.
We need your help
Given that we had already put a lot of
work into the in-person event organization, a lot of which we’ll
now have to adapt or redo for the online set up in the few months
ahead of us, we will need more help from the community to make this
happen.
If you would like to help, please write
to board@europython.eu.
We are specifically looking for people with experience using online
conference tools to help host tracks during the conference days.
Sponsoring
As for the in-person event, we will
have sponsorship packages available for the online event as well.
Because the format is different, we’ll have to adjust the packages
we had intended for the in-person to an online setup.
If you are interested in sponsoring
EuroPython 2020, please write to sponsoring@europython.eu.
We will then send you more details, as they become available.
