As previously announced, we will be opening early-bird tickets sales today at 12:00 CEST.
We will have 200 early-bird tickets available when we open up ticket sales. They offer a discount of up to 50% over the standard rate and are usually sold out within a few hours. In 2018 early bird tickets were sold out in just 45 minutes. Â
Please have your credit cards ready, in case you want to buy early-bird tickets. We won’t support Paypal payments this year due to the issues we ran into with their service last year.
For Python Core Developers, we have put a special grant in place, which will allow core developers to get free tickets to the conference. We will issue coupon codes for the regular tickets in the coming days, since we’d like to keep the early-bird tickets for people who are not eligible for such grants, refunds or discounts.
If you want to sign up, please check our grant page for details on how to apply.
Reach out to many enthusiastic Python developers, users and professionals in Basel this July !
Sponsoring
EuroPython guarantees you highly targeted visibility and the
opportunity to present yourself and your company in a professional and
innovative environment.
Also,
as a sponsor of EuroPython 2019, you will directly help promote the
work of a great open-source community which is becoming a powerhouse of
technological development and innovation.
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 organization. EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience.
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.
PyData EuroPython 2019
As usual there will be a PyData track at this year’s conference. Please submit your papers for the PyData track through the EuroPython form. Any suitable (i.e. data science, AI  and analytics)  submission will be considered for the PyData track. The PyData track is run in cooperation with NumFocus.
The 2019 PyData track will be on Tuesday (trainings), Wednesday  (talks) and Thursday (talks).
There are six different kinds of contributions that you can present at EuroPython:
Formats
Talks and trainings should be held in English language only.
Regular Talk / approx. 110 slots
These are standard “talks with slides”, allocated in slots of
The Q&A session, if present, is included in the time slot. 3-5 Minutes for Q&A is a good practice.
We will only offer a limited number of 60 minute slots, please only choose these slots for in-depth sessions or topics which require more background information.
30 minutes (ca. 50%)
45 minutes (ca. 34%)
60 minutes (ca. 16%)
We are looking for an approx. distribution of expertise (Python or domain expertise)
40% Beginners
25% Intermediate
25% Advanced
Trainings / 16 slots
Deep-dive into a subject with all details. These sessions are apporx. 3 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 trainings rooms is approx. 100 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 30-60 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. Â Please note if you suggest a panel you will have to organise the panelists and coordinate with the Program WG, panelist will require a ticket to the conference.
Interactive
This is a completely open 60-minute format. Feel free to make your suggestions. There are only two rules: it must be interactive, real-time human-to-human-interaction and of course compliant with the EuroPython Code of Conduct.
Posters / 20 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 / 6 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.
Lightning Talks
A lightning talk (LT) is a short presenatation which must not be longer than five minute. LTs are not via the CfP but walk-in registations, see here. Â
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.
Conference Layout
Please note that the conference layout has changed in 2018, the main conference (talks) is now only three days:
Monday and Tuesday: trainings, workshops, Beginners’ Day, DjangoGirls
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: talks, panels, posters, helpdesks, open sessions,… (no trainings!).
Discounts for Content Contributors
Since EuroPython is a not-for-profit community conference, it is not possible to pay out rewards for talks or trainings. For talks, posters, help desk and organising a panels or interactive sessions we will give out a 25% discount coupon valid for one conference ticket. Trainers will receive a 100% discount coupon for both a conference ticket and a training pass to compensate for the longer preparation time. See here for more details.
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 ourEuroPython Code of Conduct.
At the last General Assembly of the EuroPython Society (EPS) at EuroPython 2018 in Edinburgh, we voted on a new grant program we want to put in place for future EuroPython conferences.
We all love Python and this is one of the main reasons we are putting on EuroPython year after year, serving the “cast of thousands” which support Python. But we also believe it is important to give something back to the main team of developers who have contributed lots of their time and energy to make Python happen: the Python Core Developers.
This group is small, works countless hours, often in their free time and often close to burnout due to not enough new core developers joining the team.
Free Tickets for Python Core Developers
To help with growing the team, putting it more into the spotlight and give them a place to meet, demonstrate their work and a stage to invite new developers, we decided to give Python Core Developers free entry to future EuroPython conferences, starting with EuroPython 2019 in Basel, Switzerland
In recognition of Guido’s almost 30 years of leading this team, and with his permission, we have named the grant “Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant”.
Details of the grant program are available on our core grant page:
PS: If you are a core developer and want to organize a workshop, language summit or similar event at EuroPython 2019, please get in touch with our program workgroup soon, so that we can arrange rooms, slots, etc.
PPS: If you want to become a core developer, please have a look at the Python Dev Guide.
EuroPython will be held from July 8-14 2019 in Basel, Switzerland, at the Congress Center Basel (BCC) for the main conference days (Wed-Fri) and the FHNW Muttenz for the workshops/trainings/sprints days (Mon-Tue, Sat-Sun).
We will continue to list information on the FAQ & Info page as it becomes available.
We are happy to announce that we have received 17 RFP submissions for EP2019 from various venues all across Europe.
Review will take longer
This large number was a somewhat unexpected and the work to review all these proposals is taking longer as a result.
Since we want to give all RFP submissions a fair chance, we will therefore postpone the selection announcement until Wednesday next week, 2018-11-07, and adjust the timeline for the second round accordingly.
Updated timeline for the RFP
First round:
Start of RFP process: 2018-09-28
Deadline for RFP vendor questions: 2018-10-05
Vendor questions answered by: 2018-10-12
First round submission deadline: 2018-10-19
Second round candidates will be informed until: 2018-11-07
Second round:
Second round RFP questions posted: 2018-11-16
Deadline for RFP vendor questions: 2018-11-21
Vendor questions answered by: 2018-11-23
Final submission deadline: 2018-11-28
Final candidate will be informed until: 2018-12-07
We are happy to announce that we have started the RFP for venues to host the EuroPython 2019 conference.
We have sent out the details to almost 40 venues.
Unlike last year, we also want to give the chance to other venues who were not on our list to participate in the RFP. For this purpose, we are making the details available in this blog post as well.
RFP Introduction
The EuroPython Society is the organization behind the EuroPython conference, is the largest Python programming language conference in Europe, with more than 1100 professionals from IT, science and educational fields attending to learn about new developments, network and learn from experience of others in the field.
Python is a very popular open source programming language, with a large following in the web development and data science fields (see http://python.org/ for details).
EuroPython was initiated in 2002, with the first conference in Charleroi, Belgium, and has since toured Europe for a total of 17 editions so far. For EuroPython 2019 we are looking for a new location and venue and are reaching out to potential venues we have identified to participate in an RFP selection process.
If you’d like to participate in this process, please have a look at the RFP spreadsheet in form of an Excel spreadsheet with a list of questions and our EuroPython 2017 sponsor brochure with more details about the conference, the demographics and our offerings for sponsors, to give you an idea of what we are looking for.
Please see the first tab in the spreadsheet for a description of the the submission process. If you have questions, please write to board@europython.eu. Please also check our answers to the first round RFP vendor questions.
We are in preparations of our venue RFP for the EuroPython 2019 edition and are asking for your help in finding the right locations for us to choose from.
If you know of a larger venue - hotel or conference center - that can accommodate at least 1400 attendees, please send the venue details to board@europython.eu. We will then make sure to include them in our RFP once we send it out.
The more venues we gather to reach out to, the better of a selection process we can guarantee, which in return, will ultimately result in a better conference experience for everybody involved.
When sending us venue suggestions, please make sure to provide us with the following: name and URL of the venue, country and city, as well as the contact details of the sales person in charge of inquiries (full name, email and phone).
We were planning to start the RFP process in the coming days, so please make sure you send us your recommendations as soon as possible.
