EuroPython Society

John Pinner passed away this morning after fighting cancer for the past months.

John Pinner has been a long time Python supporter and community builder. He ran his own company Clockwork Software Systems, created one of the first Open Source payroll systems built on Python called PayThyme, helped initiate the EuroPython conference in 2002, started PyCon UK in 2007 and was its benevolent chair ever since.

In 2009 and 2010, John hosted EuroPython 2009 and 2010 as chair in Birmingham. In 2010, he received the Python Software Foundation Community Award.

But most of all he was a kind and modest man with a great talent to create a pleasant and open community atmosphere.

We will miss you, John, and your kind and comforting smile.

Thank you for all the wonderful moments,
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Your friends from the EuroPython community

The EuroPython Workgroups are busy preparing the launch of the website. Just launched in mid-January, all workgroups (WGs) are fully under steam by now, working hard to make EuroPython 2015 a fabulous event.

Community building the conference

The On-site Team WG is doing a wonderful job getting us the best possible deals in Bilbao, the Web WG is knee deep into code and docker containers setting up the website, the Marketing & Design WG working with the designers to create wonderful logos and brochures, the Program WG contacting keynote speakers and creating the call for proposals, the Finance WG building the budget and making sure the conference stays affordable for everyone, the Support WG setting up the online help desk to answer your questions, the Communications WG preparing to create a constant stream of exciting news updates, the Administration WG is managing the many accounts, contracts and services needed to run the organization.

The Financial Aid WG and Media WG are preparing to start their part of the conference organization later in March.

The WGs are all staffed with members from the ACPySS on-site team, the EuroPython Society and volunteers from the EuroPython community to drive the organization forward and we’re getting a lot done in a very short time frame.

More help needed

We are very happy with the help we are getting from the community, but there still is a lot more to be done. If you want to help us build a great EuroPython conference, please consider joining one of the above workgroups.

Stay tuned and be sure to follow the EuroPython Blog for updates on the conference.

Enjoy,
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EuroPython Society

After a creative and inspiring Friday afternoon, we are pleased to announce our EuroPython 2015 landing page:

http://ep2015.europython.eu/

This will be the URL for EuroPython 2015 - definitely worth a bookmark, we think :-)

Enjoy,
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EuroPython Society

Companies who would like to sign up as a EuroPython 2015 launch sponsor are encouraged to contact the sponsor work group at:

sponsoring@europython.eu

Launch sponsors will get the additional benefit of being listed on the website when we launch - for free. You just need to be quick, since the launch is planned for early in February.

More Booths and more Sponsor Slots

The Euskalduna Conference Center and Concert Hall (ECC) venue in Bilbao was chosen as conference venue for EuroPython 2015. It offers plenty of room for sponsor booths, so we will try to make EuroPython 2015 as effective as possible for you as sponsors by offering more booth space and sponsor slots than ever before.

This is your chance to reach out to more than a thousand enthusiastic and highly motivated EuroPython attendees !

Please email us and we’ll send you the sponsor brochure.

Thanks,
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EuroPython Society (EPS)

We are happy to announce the dates for EuroPython 2015 in Bilbao, Spain, this year:

Monday, July 20 - Sunday, July 26

Please mark your calendar. We’d love to meet you all in Bilbao - and hey, it’s summer, so you might want to combine the conference with a holiday :-)

Enjoy,
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EuroPython Society (EPS) and the Asociación de Ciencias de la Computación Python San Sebastián (ACPySS)

We would like to welcome the next 15 new EPS members to the EuroPython Society. The EPS now has 121 members (*) and we’d love to grow more…

Become an official EPS member

If you have attended a EuroPython conference and would like to have a say in the organization or simply show your support by being a society member, please consider signing up using our application form: http://www.europython-society.org/application

EPS membership is free.

We’d love to hear your suggestions

We regard the EPS as representation of the EuroPython attendees and are working hard to make every single EuroPython conference a professional, high quality and fun event. Even if you don’t want to be an official EPS member, we would still like to encourage you to send in your suggestions for enhancements, changes or anything we could do to make EuroPython an even better event. Please contact us at board@europython-society.org.

(*) If you’ve seen our previous post about new members and wonder why 111+15=121, that’s because we had a few duplicate entries in our database. A cleanup resulted in the lower count.

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EuroPython Society

We would like to welcome the next 16 new EPS members to the EuroPython Society. The EPS now has 111 members and we’d love to grow more…

Become an official EPS member

If you have attended a EuroPython conference and would like to have a say in the organization or simply show your support by being a society member, please consider signing up using our application form:

        http://www.europython-society.org/application

EPS membership is free.

We’d love to hear your suggestions

We regard the EPS as representation of the EuroPython attendees and are working hard to make every single EuroPython conference a professional, high quality and fun event.

Even if you don’t want to be an official EPS member, we would still like to encourage you to send in your suggestions for enhancements, changes or anything we could do to make EuroPython an even better event. Please contact us at board@europython-society.org.

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EuroPython Society

The EuroPython Society (EPS) is happy to announce that we have received the amended proposal from the ACPySS team in Spain to hold EuroPython 2015 in Bilbao, Spain. We had been discussing questions with them in the last couple of days.

On-site Team Proposal

Following the CFP process, we are now publishing the redacted version of the proposal, which has all the confidential information removed:

• ACPySS proposal for EuroPython 2015 in Bilbao (41MB PDF)

The EPS board will now do a final review and announce the decision in the next two weeks (2014-12-26 latest).

Please send your feedback

We would like to encourage feedback from the EuroPython and Python community regarding the proposal. Please send your emails to the europython-improve mailing list (you will have to sign up to that list before being able to post there).

Thank you,
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EuroPython Society

The EuroPython Society (EPS) is happy to announce that we have received a promising proposal from an on-site team in Spain.

We are currently reviewing the proposal and will follow up with the team to clarify any questions. Following the CFP process, the amended proposal will then be due by Friday next week (2014-12-12).

Given that we only received a single proposal, the final decision will likely be made just in time for Christmas.

Thank you,
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EuroPython Society