EuroPython Society

The EuroPython Society is pleased to announce that we have received the CTM registration for our “EuroPython” word mark in Europe.

Please see the EU Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) trademark page for details:

    https://oami.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/012636635

The EuroPython Society has owned the trademark since its inception in 2004 on a first use basis, but we believe that by registering the word mark, we are helping to protect the IP rights for the growing numbers of assets of the Python community.

Since owning a trademark also requires actively protecting it in order not to lose the rights to the mark, we have set up a trademark policy for the mark:

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

If you have questions regarding the trademark or its use, please write to board@europython-society.org.

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EuroPython Society

We are pleased to welcome all new EuroPython Society (EPS) members and would like to officially invite you to attend this year’s EPS General Assembly (GA), which we will run as in-person meeting at the upcoming EuroPython Conference 2014 in Berlin.

Place of the General Assembly meeting:

We will meet in room B09 at 16:30 CEST on Thursday, July 24, 2014.

There will be a talk presenting the EPS at 16:00 CEST in the same room, and another one following the General Assembly at 17:00 CEST presenting the new work group approach we will use for organizing EuroPython 2015. You may want to attend those talks as well.

General Assembly Agenda

The agenda contents for the assembly is defined by the EPS bylaws. We are planning to use the following structure:

• Opening of the meeting

• Selection of meeting chairman, secretary and 2 checkers of the minutes

• Motion establishing the timeliness of the call to the meeting

• Presentation of the annual report and annual accounts by the board

• Presentation of the report of the auditor

• Discharge from liability for the board

• Election of members of the board

• Election of chairman of the board

• Determination of the size of the board for the period until the next annual meeting of the General Assembly

• Election of one auditor and one replacement. The auditor does not have to be certified in any way and is normally selected among the members of the society.

• The optional election of a nomination committee for the next annual meeting of the General Assembly

• Presentation of a budget by the outgoing board.

• Acceptance of budget and decision on membership fees for the upcoming year

• Propositions from the board

• Motions from the members

• General discussion

• Closing of the meeting

Election of the members of the board

The EPS bylaws limit the number of board members to one chair and 2 - 6 directors. The following directors from the current board are running again for board for the next term (in alphabetical order):

• Jacob Hallén

• Marc-André Lemburg

• Anthon van der Neut

• Fabio Pliger

• Vicky Twomey-Lee

We will post more detailed information about the above candidates in a separate blog post.

All members of the EPS are free to nominate or self nominate board members. Please write to board@europython-society.org no later than Friday, July 18 2014, if you want to run for board. We will then include you in the list we’ll have in the final announcement before the GA.

Propositions from the board

The board would like to amend the EPS bylaws with the following changes:

Expanding the scope of EPS membership to EuroPython attendees

The bylaws currently state:

4. Membership is open to individuals wishing to participate in the organising of a EuroPython conference.

Proposed new text:

4. Membership is open to individuals who have attended a EuroPython conference, or are wishing to participate in the organising of a EuroPython conference.

Changing the official abbreviations for the EPS to “EPS”

The bylaws currently use the abbreviation “EP” for the EuroPython Society. Since this abbreviation is also used for the EuroPython conference, we would like to make “EPS” the official abbreviation for the EuroPython Society.

The bylaws currently state:

1. The name of the society is “The EuroPython Society”, abbreviated “EP”.

Proposed bylaws change:

1. The name of the society is “The EuroPython Society”, abbreviated “EPS”.

including changing the abbreviation throughout the bylaws text to read “EPS”.

The bylaws allow for additional propositions to be announced up until 5 days before the GA, so the above list is not necessarily the final list.

Motions from the members

EPS members are entitled to suggest motions to be voted on at the GA. The bylaws require any such motions to be announced at least 5 days before the GA. If you would like to propose a motion, please send it to board@europython-society.org no later than Friday, July 18 2014.

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EuroPython Society

We would like to invite all EuroPython attendees to become a member of the EuroPython Society (EPS).

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

If you have suggestions for enhancements, changes or anything we could do to make EuroPython an even better event, please contact us at board@europython-society.org.

You can sign up as a Member via the following form:     

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

Deadline is Tuesday 22nd, Midday (CET).

Note: Our bylaws do require members to be voted in by the board and because this hasn’t been done in the past, the new board is working towards getting all EuroPython attendees who want to have official voting rights in the EPS General Assembly signed up as EPS members.

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EuroPython Society

In order to give local teams a better idea of what organizing a EuroPython conference is all about, we have put the call for proposals for recent editions of the EuroPython conference online:

• Call for Proposals 2011
• Call for Proposals 2013
• Call for Proposals 2014

For the 2015 edition we are aiming at a new setup, which will hopefully make things a lot easier for the local teams submitting proposals. The details are still in the works, but we’ve already put a high level description up on our Call for Participation page.

Note that we are also changing the term to “Call for Participation”, since the “Call for Proposals” is often used for requesting submission of talks and papers to a conference.

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EuroPython Society

The EPS used to work under the assumption that all EuroPython attendees are automatically members of the EPS. After the EPS board vote in 2012, we reviewed the bylaws and found that this is not actually the case.

https://ep2013.europython.eu/blog/2012/07/08/change-board-europython-society

Because of this unfortunate misunderstanding, no membership records are available. What we do know for sure at this moment is that the EPS board members which have been active over the years are EPS members legally recognized by the bylaws.

Since this number is nowhere near where we’d like it to be, we are actively encouraging all EuroPython attendees to become EPS members.

That said, and even though the EuroPython attendees don’t have voting rights per the bylaws, we do feel that it’s the EPS board’s responsibility to listen and act based on their preferences, so that all attendees do get a say, regardless of whether they are EPS members or not.

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EuroPython Society

The EuroPython Society (EPS) has started work on preparing the Call for Participation (CFP) for organizing the EuroPython 2015 conference.

For 2015, we are setting up a new structure for the conference organization, which is focused on local and distributed work groups that are closely integrated with the EuroPython Society.

We hope to greatly reduce the work load for the local teams, attract community members that want to get involved and to streamline the whole process of transitioning from one location to the next, making the conference organization a lot easier for everyone.

If you are interested in potentially signing up as local team or participating in the work groups, please subscribe to one of our communication channels:

• Tumblr
• RSS
• Twitter
• EuroPython Mailing List

We are aiming for end of February as announcement date for the CFP 2015.

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EuroPython Society