As you may know, the EuroPython Society (EPS) has extended it’s mission to not only run the EuroPython conference, but 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 2019 to join us for an organizers’ lunch. We’re planing the lunch for Thursday or Friday. Details will be announced closer to the event.
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.
Usually, we try to have something as surprise for our attendees every year. However, for this year’s conference, we have decided to give our attendees something to play with and this needs a little more preparation than a bottle or a beach towel.
Drum roll… crowd screaming… and here it is: we’re please to present the…
EuroPython 2019 PewPew Game Console
The device was created and designed by Radomir Dopieralski, a long time EuroPython regular and enthusiastic Python device and robotics builder.
The PewPew is a simplified game console, programmable with CircuitPython, a variant of MicroPython. It comes with a 64 LED display and a set of small buttons to drive the console.
We will have one device per attendee with training or conference ticket and plan to give them out together with the badges.
Free Workshops
To teach you how to program the consoles and help with any questions you may have, we have arranged a special workshop room on the training days Monday and Tuesday, where Radomir and his team will run workshops focusing on the PewPew. You will learn how to write small programs and games.
Our hope is that you will take this knowledge home and spread the word about how much fun Python is – especially for younger users.
The workshops are free for EuroPython conference or training ticket holders, but please see our notes on catering on the training days.
Help us run the workshops
Since Radomir needs help with running the workshops, we are reaching out to you with this blog post. If you are interested in embedded Python, hardware hacking, game development
and similar topics, we invite you to come help us running those workshops.
This is a great opportunity to meet with Python developers and learn together,
and we’re sure you will have great fun while helping other attendees. Whether it’s
just lending a hand getting things working, or running a whole workshop –
it’s up to you, either way we will greatly appreciate your help.
EuroPython 2019 will be held from July 8-14 2019 in Basel, Switzerland, at the Congress Center Basel (CCB) for the main conference days (Wed-Fri) and the FHNW Muttenz for the workshops/trainings/sprints days (Mon-Tue, Sat-Sun).
Since our website was updated this year, we would like to remind you how you can configure your tickets and profiles, so that we get the right information for printing badges and adjusting catering counts.
We also had a few issues with the ticket configuration and assignments last week. As a result, some of the ticket name changes you may have made were lost. Please do consider assigning tickets to other rather than just changing the name on the ticket, since that way, we receive information about the new ticket owner’s preferences as well.
Log in to the website
The first step to administer your tickets and account is to log in to the website. If you don’t have an account yet, you can register easily using email and password or Google authentication.
Please avoid creating multiple accounts, since this can easily cause confusion and merging accounts is currently not possible.
Assigning tickets to other people
If you are the buyer of the tickets, you can now assign the tickets to other people, e.g. in your company.
In order to assign tickets, the people you want to assign them to need to have an account on our system. Please tell them to register with the EuroPython website and provide you with the email address they use to register.
Once they have registered and you have the email address they used, you can then go to the ticket section and reassign the ticket:
Click on “Assign ticket” and then enter the email address of the person to assign the ticket to:
Clicking save will then transfer the ticket to the new user.
Configuring your ticket
If you have bought a ticket or have been assigned a ticket, please check the configuration of the ticket, so we will use the correct details for printing badges, arranging catering and t-shirt counts, etc.
This will take you to a form where you can configure the name as it should appear on the badge, your preferred t-shirt size, diet, expected days of attendance and a (funny) tagline to put on the badge.
Printing your invoice
If you have bought tickets on the website, you will find the invoices for the tickets on your account page as well:
You can download the invoice in PDF format, print and save it to your records.
Configuring your EuroPython account
The website also provides a couple of other dialogs which allow you to configure your account:
The “Profile settings” allow you to edit the profile shown on the website. This is especially important for speakers, since their profiles will be public and associated with their presentations.
The “Privacy settings” dialog allows you to opt-in to recruiting emails from our sponsors (among other things):
If you happen to be looking for a new job or freelance opportunity, this is a good way to get more information from sponsors who will present in our recruiting session.
Would you like to know about how to build
websites, how the internet works and would you like to try programming
your own first blog, but don’t know where to start? We have good news
for you: we are holding a
During the workshop you will work through a tutorial in a small group of
three attendees and one coach. Our coaches are software developers who
contribute their time, knowledge and energy for you and Django Girls. All you need is a working laptop,
and we’ll help you with the rest.
You can attend the workshop for free! Your motivation counts, let us know about it in your application.
Registering for the workshop
The workshop is aimed at women with little or no programming
experience, but may also be useful if you’ve learned a different
discipline (like data science) and would like to learn how to build
websites with Django.
The workshop is free to attend, but you have to apply and be
accepted. We only have 30 seats available for the workshop, and we’ll
pick the best applicants based on the information you provide you provide on the form.
We can’t run this workshop without coaches! A coach will be assigned
to each group of 3 attendees. Their job is to support and encourage
their team as they work through the Django Girls tutorial at their own
pace.
If you’d like to
apply to be a coach, please sign up here.
Sponsors of EuroPython 2019 Django Girls Workshop
The EuroPython Society is providing the room and catering in our training venue, the FHNW
Campus Muttenz.
Nexmo will provide the Django Girls workshop box.
EntwicklerHeld will provide t-shirts for our coaches.
More information is available on our Django Girls page:
We are happy to announce the start of our financial aid program for this year’s EuroPython.
As part of our commitment to the Python community, we are pleased to announce that we offer special grants for people in need of a financial aid to attend EuroPython.
We offer financial aid conference grants in these 2 categories:
Free ticket. Get a standard ticket for the conference for free (including access to conference days (Wed-Fri), Beginners’ Day workshop and sprints.). Note: training passes are NOT included in the free conference ticket.
Travel / Accommodation. We will cover the travel costs pro rata, depending on what you are applying for. You can get partial refund for the accommodation.
Grant Eligibility
EuroPython is a wonderful place to meet and share your experience with other Python developers from Europe and all around the world. Our goal is support people which want to make Python community better: conference speakers and tutorial presenters, active people from small Python communities and open source contributors.
Our grants are open to all people in need of financial aid. We will specifically take into account the following criteria in the selection process:
Contributors: potential speakers/trainers of EuroPython (people who submitted a proposal) and all who contribute to EuroPython and/or Python community projects.
Economic factors: we want everybody to have a chance to come to EuroPython, regardless of economic situation or income level.
Diversity: we seek the most diverse and inclusive event possible.
How to apply
Please see our financial aid page for all details:
Even though the EPS is already sponsoring finaid, we can always use more budget to increase the number of people who can benefit from the program.
You or your company can support our diversity and finaid initiative by becoming a sponsor. We have a special options “Financial aid sponsor” and “Financial aid donation” in the list of sponsor options, that can be booked separately or be included in the sponsor package.
Please check our sponsor brochure for more information and contact finaid@europython.eu or the sponsor work group directly sponsoring@europython.eu.
Bring new sponsor and get free ticket for EuroPython 2019 !
Although the main conference starts on Wednesday, July 10th, there’s already so much to do for attendees with the main conference ticket on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th.
Beginners’ Day and Sponsored Trainings
You can come to the workshops and trainings venue at FHNW Campus Muttenz and:
Details on the Beginners’ Day workshop and the sponsored trainings will be announced separately.
Catering on training days not included
Since we have to budget carefully, the lunch and coffee breaks are not included, if you don’t have a training ticket or combined ticket.
To not keep you hungry, we have arranged that you can buy lunch coupons (price to be announced later). You can also go to the grocery store at the ground floor. For coffee breaks you can go to the ground floor, to the 12th floor of the FHNW building, or outside at the beach bar (nice weather only) and buy drinks.
More advanced talks than in previous EuroPython editions
We are glad that the Python community has heard our call to submit more advanced talks this year. This will make EuroPython 2019 even more interesting than our previous edition.
Waiting List
Some talks are still in the waiting list. We will inform all speakers who have submitted talks about the selection status by email.
PyData EuroPython 2019
As in previous years, we will have lots of PyData talks and trainings:
4 trainings on Monday and Tuesday (July 8-9)
34 talks on Wednesday and Thursday (July 10-11)
no PyData talks on Friday (July 12)
Full Schedule
The full schedule will be available early in June.
Training Tickets & Combined Tickets
If you want to attend the trainings offered on the training days (July 8-9), please head over to the registration page in the next couple of days. Sales are going strong and we only have 300 tickets available.
Combined tickets are new this year and allow attending both training and conference days with a single ticket.
After the rush to the early-bird tickets last week (we sold more than 290 tickets in 10 minutes), we expect a rush to the regular and training tickets this week as well.
We only have 300 training tickets available, so if you want to attend the training days, please consider getting your ticket soon.
Available ticket types
We will have the following ticket types available:
regular conference tickets - admission to the conference days (July 10-12) and sprints (July 13-14)
training tickets - admission to the training days (July 8-9)
combined tickets - admission to training, conference and sprint days (July 8-14)
Please see our registration page for full details on the available tickets.
As reminder, here’s the conference layout:
Monday & Tuesday, July 8 & 9: Trainings, Beginners’ Day and other workshops
Wednesday–Friday, July 10–12: Conference talks, keynotes & exhibition
Saturday & Sunday, July 13 & 14: Sprints
Combined Tickets
These are a new ticket type we are introducing for EuroPython 2019, to simplify purchase and check-in at the conference for attendees who want to attend the complete EuroPython 2019 week with a single ticket.
To make the ticket more attractive, we are granting a small discount compared to purchasing training and conference tickets separately.
We have worked with our designer to compile all relevant information about the conference in a nice to read brochure, you can use to discuss a possible sponsorship in your company.
