Thank you all for participating in last week’s talk voting. We have again broken a record, with more than
13,353 cast votes, a 22% increase compared to last year. We had almost 400 submissions to vote on.
Users voted on 47 sessions on average, with more than 50% of the users casting 24.5 or more votes (median):
A total of 284 users participated in the talk voting, compared to 254 users last year, so more than 20% of our attendees do like to actively participate in the selection of the talks. A pretty good indicator of how vibrant our community is.
The program work group will now evaluate the voting results and select the first set of highest rated talks before going into the review phase to work on the remaining talk submissions.
We plan to announce this first batch in the coming days.
We are pleased to announce our next keynote speaker for EuroPython 2017: Jan Willem Tulp.
About Jan Willem Tulp
Jan Willem Tulp is an award winning data experience designer from The Netherlands. With his one-man company TULP interactive he creates custom data visualizations.
Jan Willem has created visualizations for organizations such as Google, Scientific American, Nature, Popular Science, World Economic Forum, Unicef, Unesco, ESA and Philips.
He speaks regularly at international conferences, and teaches a workshop on data visualization design. His work has been published in books and magazines and has been exhibited internationally. He has been a judge on visualization contests, such as National Science Foundation vizzies (USA) and Malofiej (Spain).
The Keynote: How to create inspiring data visualizations?
Many times data visualizations need to communicate insights clearly and effectively. But sometimes the goals of a visualization go beyond that: they need to inspire and engage people.
But how do you draw them in? What is the process behind creating a creative data visualization?
During this talk, I will show some of my projects, and explain a little about the process behind it.
We are pleased to announce our first keynote speaker for EuroPython 2017: Tracy Osborn.
About Tracy
Tracy Osborn is a designer, developer, and entrepreneur living in Toronto,
Canada.
Tracy holds a Bachelors degree in Art & Design. She taught herself how to
do websites as a kid, learned how to program and launched
WeddingLovely, an online wedding planner to help them track, plan, and
design their perfect wedding day.
She’s also the author, designer, and publisher of Hello Web App, a
self-published book series on beginner web app development with Python and
Django.
She’s been an active member and developer of the Django Software
Foundation for three years.
In her spare time, she’s an avid outdoorswoman and would love to go on a
hike with you.
The Keynote: The Different Roads We Take
We’ve all taken different routes to get to where we are today, and we’re not all currently on the same road going the same place. Tracy Osborn will talk about the idea of the “Python engineer,” her (long and full of bumps and potholes) journey to learning and teaching Python, and the harmful myths about learning programming and the paths available when you do so.
At EuroPython, we let our attendees have a significant say in the selection of the sessions which are presented at the conference. We call this “talk voting” - attendees can tell us which submitted talks they’d like to see at the conference.
To be eligible to vote for talks, you need to be a registered attendee of the current EuroPython, or attendee of the past two EuroPython conferences.
The talk voting page lists all submitted proposals, including talks, trainings and posters.
At the top of the page you find a few filters you can use to narrow down the list by e.g. selecting tags you’re interested in or only show one type of proposal and also to select the sorting order.
For each submission, you can find the talk title with a link to the talk page.
In order to vote, have a look at the title/abstract and then indicate your personal interest in attending this session. We have simplified the voting process and you may chose between these four options: “must see”, “want to see”, “maybe” and “not interested”.
If you have questions about the talk, you can go to the talk page and enter a comment.
Note that your votes are automatically saved to the backend without the need to click on a save or submit button.
Talk selection
After the talk voting phase, the EuroPython Program Workgroup (WG) will use the votes to select the talks and build a schedule.
The majority of the talks will be chosen based on the talk voting results. Part of the available slots will be directly assigned by the Program WG based on editorial criteria to e.g. increase diversity or give a chance to less mainstream topics.
In general, the Program WG will try to give as many speakers a chance to talk as possible. If speakers have submitted multiple talks, the one with the highest rate will most likely get selected.
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With more than 1200 participants, 8 days conference
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connect, share and learn.
New Attractive Location for 2017
This year we move to the Palacongressi in Rimini, the largest convention
centre in Italy, unique in its design and technology, with 11,000 m² exhibit space, in addition to 39 conference rooms. Check out EuroPython demographics, refresh your mind with our beautiful location and consult the different opportunities we have created for you.
Available Sponsor Options
We offer 7 different sponsor packages, with different levels of engagement.
Would you rather have more flexibility? You can separately book special events and choose from a list of very prominent advertisement
options: have a table in the training session or get your logo to be by the ice-cream stall; sponsor our laser-tag and party events.
Do you have further ideas? We can help you develop a tailored sponsorship package that fits your specific targets. If you would like to engage and sponsor EuroPython 2017, please contact us by e-mail.
Don’t miss the chance to become part of the largest Python conference in Europe!
This year the Lufthansa group is our preferred airline for EuroPython. The co-operation provides a 5-10% discount for flights to the conference going to Bologna and Florence.
Airlines include Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian, Belgium Airlines and Eurowings.
and enter the access code ITZJQRN in the “Access to Your Special Lufthansa Offer” area at the bottom.
This will open an online booking platform that will automatically calculate the discount offered or provide you with an even better offer if another promotional fare is available.
It’s the first time we cooperate with an airline for travel so you can spend more money on ice cream in Rimini.
The Call for Proposals ended last Sunday. We do have received many great proposals for talks and trainings. Thanks to all the submitters - great work!
Though many seem to have missed the deadline due to the bank holidays and general Easter holiday season.
So the program work group has decided to extend the call for a few more days until Sunday, 23rd of April.
Some pointers, you may submit anything you see fit, but we would love to see more proposals for:
- Makers - Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning - Internet of Things / Industrie 4.0 / Industrial Internet - Robotics - Security - Python in Education
We also could use some more posters. If you don’t know what posters are - they are a great way of discussing (and challenging) your project with others in person, more: here.
We are eager to learn about different python applications and encourage participation from different fields. There is value in differences and EuroPython is an opportunity to exchange skills and knowledge, to face common challenges.
We would like to encourage network and transfer of knowledge among academia, companies and all individuals interested in Python. For this purpose, this year EuroPython extends the special rate for students to postdoctoral researchers. Check out also all our regular rates, now available for sale on our website.
