We would like to invite all EuroPython attendees and EuroPython Society
(EPS) members to attend this
year’s EPS General Assembly (GA), which we will run as in-person meeting
at the upcoming EuroPython 2018, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK from July 23 - 29.
We had already sent a invite to the members mailing on 2018-06-17, but would like to announce this more broadly as well and with complete agenda.
There will be a short talk to invite volunteers to participate in organizing EuroPython 2019 in preparation for next year’s event at 14:00 BST in the same room,
right before the General Assembly. You may want to attend that talk as
well. In this talk, we will present the EuroPython Workgroup Concept, we have been using successfully for the past years now.
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 chair, 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
Presentation of a budget by the outgoing board.
Acceptance of budget and decision on membership fees for the upcoming year
Election of members of the board
Election of chair of the board
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
Propositions from the board, if any
Motions from the members, if any
Closing of the meeting
In an effort to reduce the time it takes to go through this long list, which is mandated by the bylaws, we will try to send as much information to the members mailing list before the GA, so that we can limit presentations to a minimum.
Election of the members of the board
The EPS bylaws
limit the number of board members to one chair and 2 - 8 directors, at
most 9 directors in total. Experience has shown that the board members are the
most active organizers of the EuroPython conference, so we try to get as
many board members as possible to spread the work load.
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 20 2017, if you want to run for board. We
will then include you in the list we’ll have in the final nomination announcement
before the GA, which is scheduled for July 21.
The
following people from the current board have already shown interest in running for board in the next term as well (in alphabetical order):
We will post more detailed information about the candidates and any new nominations we receive in a separate blog post.
Propositions from the board
We would like to propose to grant CPython Core Developers a lifetime free entry to EuroPython conferences in recognition for their efforts to build the foundation on what our community is built. The details are to be defined by the EPS board.
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
None at the moment.Â
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 20 2017, so we can announce the final list to everyone.
With 140 speakers and more than 150 sessions, we have a full packed program waiting for you. Please note that the schedule may still change in details, but the overall layout is fixed now.
Book your EuroPython 2018 Ticket
Please make sure you book your ticket in the coming days. We will switch to late bird rates closer to the event.
If you want to attend the training sessions, please buy a training pass. We only have very few left and will close sales for these later this week.
Travel & accommodation tips
Since we’re close the conference and The Fringe is starting a week later, Edinburgh is in high demand. If you’re having problems finding a hotel, please also consider searching for apartments on the well known booking sites.
For traveling to Edinburgh, we suggest also considering a combination of plane and train or bus. London, Birmingham and Manchester all provide train and bus lines going to Edinburgh and by booking a combination, you can often save a lot, compared to a direct flight to Edinburgh.
The EuroPython Society (EPS) extended its mission last year to not only run the EuroPython conference, but also provide help for the Python community in Europe in general.
Let’s all meet at EuroPython
In addition to the Python Organizers Lunch (see previous post), which focuses on conference organizers, we are also establishing a program to support attendees of Python user groups and conferences in Europe.
We’d like to invite all of you to EuroPython 2018 this year. Of course, we cannot give out free tickets to everyone, but we can at least recognize your participation in the Python community by giving out discounts for the conference.
Discounts for EuroPython Tickets
If you are running a Python event (conference or user group) in Europe, please reach out to board@europython.eu to request a coupon code for your group, which you can then pass on to your group members or attendees.
If you are not running a user group or conference, but a regular attendee of one, please contact your organizers to have them submit a request. We can only distribute codes at the user group and conference organizer level.
The coupon codes are valid for conference tickets bought starting today and will give you a 10% discount on the ticket price (both regular and late bird prices). The codes are setup for user group sizes of between 30-50 members, but we are also extending this to organizers and attendees of larger conferences. If you need a code valid for larger groups, please mention this in your email.
The EuroPython Society (EPS), who is organizing the EuroPython conference, last year extended it’s mission to also provide help for the Python community in Europe in general.
As part of this, we would like to get to know, and help create closer ties between organizers of other European Python events.
Organizers’ Lunch
We would like to invite representatives of all European Python conference to EuroPython 2018 to join us for an organizers’ lunch. We’re planing the lunch for Friday, July 27, in the organizer’s room (Soutra Suite).
Our aim is to get to know each other, exchange experience in organizing events and to find out how we, as EPS, can most effectively help other conferences going forward.
Free Tickets
To support and facilitate this, we are giving out one free conference ticket per conference team, so that each team can send a representative to the organizers’ lunch.
If your team wants to send someone to join, please write to board@europython.eu, mentioning the conference you’re organizing and some background on your team.
We have great news ! After many months of sorting the UK VAT registration issue, we have finally been registered for VAT in the UK. This is the number, we’ve all been waiting for:
We’ve now generated all the missing invoices for existing purchases and hope that this will make it easier for companies to now register their employees as well.
If you have already purchased tickets, you can find the invoices in your account. Simply log in, go to the profile page, select “Orders, invoices & coupons” on the right and you should find the invoice links for your orders.
The invoices are generated as PDFs, so you can print or archive them easily.
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.
Please also forward this Call for Proposals to anyone that you feel may be interested.
Important Notice: New Conference Layout
Please note that the conference layout has changed compared to previous years, the main conference (talks) is now only three days:
Monday and Tuesday: trainings, workshops and Beginners’ Day only
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: talks, panels, posters, helpdesks, open sessions,… (no trainings!).
Given the compact timing this year, one should not bet on an extension, please submit your proposals as early as possible - also to reduce work load of the reviewers. Thank you.
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. 110 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 very 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 / 12 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 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. 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. Please note if you suggest a panel you will have to organise the panelists and coordinate with the
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. If you want to discuss an idea upfront, please feel free to contact the Program WG to discuss.
Posters / 15 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.
Tracks
You may suggest your submission for a track. Tracks are groups of talks, covering the same domain (e.g. Django), all in the same room in a row. You may choose one of these specialized domains / tracks:
Business Track (running a business, being a freelancer)
DevOps
Django Track
Educational Track
General Python
Hardware/IoT Track
PyData Track
Science Track
Web Track
PyData EuroPython 2018
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 and make sure to select “PyData” as sub community in the form.
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.
Suggested topics for EuroPython presentations include, but are not limited to:
Core Python
Python libraries and extensions
Python 2 to 3 migration
Data Science
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Databases
Documentation
Frameworks
Game Programming
Hardware (Sensors, RaspberryPi, Gadgets,…)
Network Programming
Open Source Python projects
Packaging
Programming Tools
Project Best Practices
Embedding and Extending
Education, Science and Math
Community
Ethics (related to Programming)
Web-based Systems
Use Cases
API
GUI Programming
Failures and Mistakes
Alternative Python implementations: e.g. Jython, IronPython, PyPy, and Stackless
Language for Talks & Trainings
Talks and trainings should 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 ourEuroPython 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. Trainings will be not 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.
In the coming days, we will provide you with more information and announce the start of the Call for Proposals and Early Bird Ticket sales. Please watch our EuroPython blog for updates.
The EuroPython conference will take place in sunny Edinburgh, Scotland, this year, from July 23-29 2018.
It’s a great time of year to visit Edinburgh with 16 hours of daylight, and the festival season in full flow, so come and join us. This is just one week before the famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Turing Festival, so you can extend your stay a little longer in Edinburgh, or head for the Highlands to enjoy the amazing mountains and lochs.
EuroPython 2018 - The European Python Conference
Here’s an overview of what you can expect in Edinburgh:
We will start with Workshops and Training Sessions on Monday and Tuesday.
The main 3 conference days follow, packed with keynotes, talks, exhibition, help desks, interactive sessions, panels and poster sessions.
The two weekend days after the conference, July 28 and 29, are reserved for sprints (hackathons).
Overall, we will again have 7 days worth of great Python content, arranged in over 120 sessions, waiting for you.
The venue is the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, in central Edinburgh, just on the edge of the historic Old Town.
In short:
Monday, Tuesday, July 23-24: Workshops and Training
Wednesday - Friday, July 25-27: Conference talks, keynotes, training
Saturday, Sunday, July 28-29: Sprints
Our Sponsors
All this would not be possible without the generous help of our launch sponsors. If your company would be interested in sponsoring the 17th EuroPython please contact sponsoring@europython.eu.
Sponsoring EuroPython guarantees you highly targeted visibility and the opportunity to present yourself and your company in a professional and innovative environment. You’ll have an unique opportunity to meet many Python-enthusiastic developers, users and professionals. As a sponsor of EuroPython 2018, you will directly help to promote the work of a great open-source community and help further its development.
EuroPython 2018 is the 17th EuroPython conference. The conference tours throughout Europe. It so far has had stops in Belgium, Sweden, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany and Basque Country/Spain, growing from initially 240 attendees to well over 1200.
In the coming days, we will announce the start of the Call for Proposals and Early Bird Ticket sales. Please watch our EuroPython blog for updates.
After a two month RFP bidding process with 19 venues from all over Europe, we are pleased to announce our selection of the location and venue for EuroPython 2018:
EuroPython 2017 is almost over and so it’s time to ask around for
what we can improve next year. If you attended EuroPython 2017,
please take a few moments and fill in our feedback form:
We will leave the feedback form online for a few weeks and then
use the information as basis for the work on EuroPython 2018 and also
post a summary of the multiple choice questions (not the comments to
protect your privacy) on our website. Many thanks in advance.
