We are happy to announce the schedule for EuroPython 2016 in Bilbao. The program WG has been working hard trying to fit all the sessions in the last few weeks.
With over 180 sessions, over 150 speakers, one day for workshops, 5 days of talks, training, keynotes, lightning talks and open spaces, followed by 2 days of sprints, EuroPython will be one of the most exciting and vibrant Python events this year:
The schedule is available in table and list format. Please note that we are still applying changes to the slots and will also add some more interesting special sessions to it in the coming days.
Early in June we will have a short second Call for Proposals, limited
to hot topics and most recent developments in software and technology.
We will announce details soon.
Many thanks to everyone who submitted proposals. EuroPython wouldn’t be possible without our speakers.
If you want to join the fun, be sure to get your tickets as soon as possible, since ticket sales usually start picking up quite a bit after we announce the schedule.
After the Call for Proposals for EuroPython 2016 last week, we are now calling out to everyone interested in signing up as EuroPython attendee early. You will be able to benefit from reduced ticket prices for a short period of time.
Our early bird ticket sales are limited to 300 tickets. Regular sales start shortly after we’ve ended the early bird sales.
We will be opening the flood gates on Tuesday, 23.02.2016, 09:00 CET, so set your alarms to make sure you can secure your ticket. Experience shows that early bird tickets sell out quickly.
PS: Remember to submit your proposals for the conference. There are less than two weeks left.
We are pleased to announce the launch of our all new EuroPython 2016
website. Over the last few weeks, we have been busy talking to sponsors and getting the
website prepared for the launch.
Many thanks go to our launch sponsors who have signed up early to
give us that extra boost in motivation to get the conference and it’s
website set up.
The EuroPython 2016 Team is ready for starting the organization of next year’s event.
If you would like to actively help with the organization, we’d love to have you as volunteer in one of our workgroups. Please see the EuroPython Workgroups page for how to sign up.
On-site Team WG
One
of the workgroups, the on-site team workgroup, is especially important,
since they provide the services and management on-site in Bilbao, as
well as in the case of EuroPython 2016, also take on a major role in the
financial and legal infrastructure of the conference organization.
This team is your contact in case you have questions related to on-site setups.
Manages
and organizes the administration side of the conference, in particular:
contracts, venue contact, ticket support, satellite conferences, legal
support, insurance, licensing.
Manages
and organizes the finances and budget of the conference, in particular:
budget, controlling, accounting, billing, invoicing, taxes, payment
system administration.
Manages
and organizes the sponsor activities of the conference, in particular:
sponsor contacts, sponsor logistics, room/booth assignment, recruiting
session, jobs fair, exhibit hall, startup row.
Fabio Pilger (Chair)
Borja Ayerdi Vilches
Darya Chyzhyk
RaĂşl Cumplido
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Alexandre Savio
Vicky Twomey-Lee
Communications WG
Manages
and organizes the public communication and community relations of the
conference, in particular: press, community relations,
diversity/outreach/CoC, CoC contact, announcements, social media,
attendee tools, Â volunteer coordination, mailing lists, Trello and
Loomio groups.
Create
and manage marketing and design aspects of the conference, in
particular: brochures, advertisements, banners, flyers, travel guide,
t-shirts, lanyards, badges, panels, logo.
Manages
and organizes the conference program of the conference, in particular:
talk selection/voting, scheduling, session chairs,
sprint/openspace/keynote/lightning talks/poster session organization.
Alexandre Savio (Chair)
Alexander Hendorf  (Co-chair)
Christian Barra
RaĂşl Cumplido
Moshe Goldstein
Vicky Twomey-Lee
Chris Ward
Web WG
Manages
and organizes the web site, in particular: web site support, helpdesk
ticket system, administration, backups, payment system integration,
hosting.
Manage
and organize the talk and session recordings of the conference, in
particular: video recording, live streaming, uploads to YouTube and
archive.org.
Anthon van der Neut (Chair)
Luis Javier Salvatierra
Code of Conduct WG
Manage and organize the code of conduct (CoC) workflows, create CoC documents, provide CoC contacts and handle CoC requests.
Darya Chyzhyk
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Anthon van der Neut
Leire Ozaeta
On-Site Volunteers
In
addition to several of the EuroPython Workgroup members, we will need
quite a few attendees helping us as session manager, room manager, at
the registration desk, bag stuffing and during set up and tear down of
the conference.
We will run a separate announcement for on-site volunteers closer to the event.
At this year’s General Assembly we will vote in a new board of the EuroPython Society.
List of Board Candidates
The EPS bylaws
require one chair and 2 - 6 board members. The following candidates have stated their willingness to work on the EPS board. We are presenting them here (in alphabetical order).
Borja Ayerdi
PhD Student / Co-Founder and CEO of Neurita / Treasurer
Borja
is a PhD student in the University of the Basque Country. He has a
degree in Information Engineering of the same university. His PhD thesis
is focused in several areas of machine learning applications to image
processing, including aortic and brain imaging as well as hyperspectral
satellite imaging. He uses Python for his research projects.
He
is a co-founder and the treasurer of the non-profit Python San
Sebastian society (ACPySS). With the local community he is co-organizer
of Python San Sebastian Conference Series. He is member of the
EuroPython 2015 core organization team. He loves the social interaction
and the community.
Oier Echaniz Beneitez
PhD Student /Â Consultant / Chair of ACPySS
Oier
currently is a PhD Student in the University of the Basque Country. He
has a degree in Information Engineering from the same university. His
PhD is focused in medical imaging, cancer diagnosis and machine
learning. He uses Python in his daily programming projects. He is also
co-founder and chair of the Python San Sebastian society (ACPySS), a
non-profit organization involved in the use of Python, Free Software and
Technology in business and education. With the local community he
co-organized a Software Carpentry and is co-organizer in the Python San
Sebastian conference series. He is member of the EuroPython 2015 core
organization team. He is also promotor of a local project Asmatu
Intelligent Solutions, where he works as data analyst consultant.
In
his leisure time he helps as an IT expert in a non-profit organization
called ASPANOGI. This organization takes care of children with cancer,
teaching them computer science and providing them tools and machines
where they can play during hospitalization.
Dr. Darya Chyzhyk
PhD/ Python programming enthusiastic for research and science
Currently, Darya is a Post-Doc at the University of Florida, USA. She has a
degree in applied mathematics and defended her thesis in computer science.
Last 7 years Darya has been working on computer aided diagnostic computer
systems for brain diseases at the University of the Basque Country, Spain
and she is a member of of the Computational Intelligence Group since 2009.
Her aim is to develop computational methods for brain MRI processing and
analysis, including open sours tools, that help to the medical people in
their specific pathologies research studies.
She has experience in International Conference organization and take part
in the events for the teenagers and kids such as Week of science.
Participant in more than 10 international science conference, trainings and
summer courses.
Board member of Python San Sebastian Society (ACPySS) and on-site team of
EuroPython 2015.
Marc-Andre
is the CEO and founder of eGenix.com, a Python-focused project and
consulting company based in Germany. He has a degree in mathematics from
the University of DĂĽsseldorf. His work with and for Python started in
Winter 1993/1994. He became Python Core Developer in 1997. In 1999, he
designed and implemented the Unicode support in Python and continued to maintain the Python Unicode implementation for more than a decade. Marc-Andre is a founding member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and has served on the PSF Board several times. He is the author of the well-known Python “mx” Extensions, e.g. mxTextTools, mxDateTime and mxODBC, which are now distributed and maintained through eGenix.com.
In 2002, Marc-Andre was on the executive committee to run the first EuroPython conference in Charleroi, Belgium. He also co-organized the second EuroPython 2003
conference. Since then, he has attended every single EuroPython
conference and continued being involved in the workings of the
conference organization.
In 2012, he was elected as board member of the EuroPython Society
(EPS). He enjoyed the
last few years working with the EPS board members on steering the
EuroPython conference to the new EuroPython Workgroup structures and believes that
the new model will make it possible to sustain the continued growth
while maintaining the EuroPython spirit and fun aspect of the
conference.
For the 2015 edition, Marc-Andre chaired the EuroPython Admin WG and Communications WG. He set up the internal EuroPython organization wiki,
most of the EuroPython and EPS accounts and mailing lists, managed the
WG member accounts, EPS member accounts, helped setting up and running
the EuroPython 2015 website and the pre-launch site before that, the EuroPython Guidebook, running the conference budget, and a gazillion smaller things needed for the conference.
Going forward, he would like to continue the transition process of the EPS and prepare it for a bright future.
Anthon van der Neut
Consultant / Software Engineering Manager
He has been working with Python on a professional basis since 1998,
after having been introduced to the language a few years earlier while
working in Amsterdam. Since 2007 he maintains the C implementation of OrderedDict
he developed, used by those pythonistas for whom a Pure Python
implementation is not fast enough. He has spoken at and visited PyCon
and visited several EuroPythons after moving back to Europe.
He has managed software development in companies across 3 continents,
primarily oriented at 3D resp. 2D computer graphics and media
management software. This included managing the Commotion development
team, then used at ILM for rotoscoping Star Wars episodes I-III.
He was quaestor on the board of the student society Augustinus
while studying Mathematics, Japanese and Linguistics in Leiden. He was
founding chairman of the Dutch 68000 user group (back in 1984 when that
processor was state-of-the-art) and published about his work on how to
hook up a floating point coprocessor in his Atari ST, as well as on how
to adapt the libraries of Modula-2 to use it.
More recently he has managed the website and member administration of his local karate-club.
When not working on Python, but still at the computer, he can be found answering questions on the Unix & Linux resp. Ebooks StackExchange sites, or refreshing his math skills at Khan Academy where he is one of the few to hold the coveted Tesla badge.
When detached from his keyboard, he can be found cooking for his teenage daughter or practising karate.
He joined the EPS as he likes to work with like minded people in a
multicultural environment promoting his favourite programming language.
Fabio Pliger
Software Engineer / Trainer / Consultant
Fabio currently works as a software engineer, trainer and consultant.
He has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Verona,
Italy. Has started working with Python on a professional basis since
2003 building different kind of tools and projects mainly for
pharmaceutical companies. In 2007, he co-founded his own software and
consulting company focused at the pharmaceutical industry market, that
he left in 2013.
He has been the chairman of the board of the EuroPython Society since
2012 trying to help the Society maintain the series of successful
conference, improve it’s interaction with the community, scale as
numbers grow and keep the Conference spirit of fun, openness and respect
that is a deep trait of the EuroPython conference. He has been a
co-organizer of the EuroPython Conference series for the 2011, 2012 and
2013 editions in Florence.
In 2007, he co-founded the Python Italia Association, a non-profit
organization devoted to advance open source technology related to the
Python programming language in Italy. As result of this he has been a
co-organizer of the PyCon Italia conference in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
and 2014.
He joined the EPS because he loves the social interaction, community and to help promote his favorite programming language.
Outside the Python community Fabio loves to spend time with his family, friends, cooking and traveling.
Alex
has a PostDoc position in the University of Wroclaw, he is an expert
working with Neuroimaging. He has a PhD and degree in Information
Engineering in the University of the Basque Country. In the university
he is a member of the Computational Intelligence Group, where he
participated in the organization of 4 scientific conferences. He is core
developer of medical image tools which are popular in the computer
Science Faculty of the University of the Basque Country in San
Sebastian. His interests are oriented to medical imaging and computer
vision applications, computer clusters administration and
high-performance computing.
He is the most veteran Python user in
the Python San Sebastian society (ACPySS), he is also a co-founder and
the spokesperson in this non-profit organization. With the local
community he organized trainings for beginners and intermediate Python
users, Software Carpentries and is co-organizer of Python San Sebastian
Conference Series. He is member of the EuroPython 2015 core organization
team.
Vicky Twomey-Lee
Software Engineer / Tech event Organiser
She currently organises Python Ireland monthly events as well as
being on its committee. She was the chair of PyCon Ireland from 2010 to
2013.
She is now involved in diversity initiatives in Python and PyCon Ireland, founded PyLadies Dublin
which launched in October 2013 during PyCon Ireland, and is currently
organiser of its monthly meetups. Vicky has been a member of PSF since
2012.
She joined EPS as board member to learn about and help local organisers to run EuroPython.
Outside of Python community, she organises female-friendly adult workshops to encourage diversity in the tech area via Coding Grace
which she co-founded with other developers based in Dublin, Ireland.
She also co-founded and co-organise community game jams called Global GameCraft
bringing game enthusiasts, hobbyists, developers as well as those in
the games industry (big and small) to make games in one day, play each
others games at the end of it and make new connections.
Want to run as candidate ?
More candidates from the EPS membership are welcome. Please write to board@europython-society.org to get your name added to the list of candidates. We will keep this posting updated with all new candidates.
What does the EPS Board do ?
The EPS board runs the day-to-day business of the EuroPython Society.
It is allowed to enter contracts for the society and handle any issues
that have not been otherwise regulated in the bylaws or by the General
Assembly. Most business is handled by email on the board mailing list,
board meetings are usually run as conference calls.
Board members are generally expected to take on leadership roles within the EuroPython Workgroups.
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 2015 in Bilbao, Spain.
Place of the General Assembly meeting:
We will meet on Wednesday, July 22 2015, at 15:15 CEST in room Barria1 of the EuroPython 2015 conference venue Euskalduna Conference Center (ECC) in Bilbao, Spain.
There will be a talk to presenting the EuroPython Workgroup concept in preparation for EuroPython 2016 at 14:30 CEST in the same room, right before the General Assembly. You may want to attend that talk 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 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
Determination of the size of the board for the period until the next annual meeting of the General Assembly
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
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.
All members of the EPS are free to nominate or self nominate board members. Please write to board@europython-society.org
no later than Saturday, July 18 2015, 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.
The
following directors from the current board are running again for board
for the next term (in alphabetical order):
We will post more detailed information about the above candidates and any new nominations in a separate blog post.
Propositions from the board
The board would like to amend the EPS bylaws with the following changes:
Replace all uses of “chairman” with “chair” to make the bylaws more modern.
Remove the General Assembly agenda requirement in section 8 to “Determination of the size of the board for the period until the next annual meeting of the General Assembly”, since such a change can be implemented using a bylaws change, if necessary, and there currently is no actual need, since the bylaws already say “one chair + 2-6 board members”, which already gives us enough flexibility.
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 Saturday, July 18 2015.
From the over 340 proposals, 205 sessions were chosen for EuroPython 2015:
169 talks
11 posters
20 trainings
5 help desks
Many thanks to everyone who submitted proposals. EuroPython wouldn’t be possible without our speakers.
The program work group will now work on the schedule. Given the number of sessions, this may take a while, but we’ll try to get it done as quickly as possible.
After today’s posting, it became apparent that we have made a mistake in communicating the issue properly. We’re sorry for this, would like
to apologize and hope to do better this time around.
completely out of touch with the Python community and its values
Actions taken
Manuel Graña was removed from the EuroPython 2015 team
right after we had found out about the issue (on April 3rd), first as
temporary step to start investigating and later as permanent action.
Apology from the EuroPython 2015 Team
We are really sorry for what has happened and our failed initial attempt to address the issue this morning.
The
podcast should have been properly reviewed by the communications team
before going live to not create the impression that we as EuroPython
2015 Team approve of such opinions and statements. We’d have taken
action right after the review, instead of having other community members
make us aware of the breach of our CoC.
The fact that an organizer of the team made such comments is particularly alarming. We’d sincerely like to apologize for this.
Apology from the ACPySS
(English)
On the behalf of EP2015 organizers, we would like to sincerely
apologize. We are sorry that this was said. It was completely wrong.
Manuel, the person who made such poorly worded statements, had been
removed from the organization team as soon as were reported the issue.
This decision was shared and taken by Manuel himself. You can see a
related tweet by one of the organizers here: https://twitter.com/alex_savio/status/583762837971042304
(Español)
Nos gustarĂa pedir nuestras más sinceras disculpas en el nombre de la
organizaciĂłn del EP2015. Lamentamos mucho lo que se dijo y estuvo
completamente fuera de lugar. Manuel, la persona que hizo esas
declaraciones, se retirĂł del equipo de organizaciĂłn tan pronto como se
informĂł al respecto. Esta decisiĂłn fue compartida y tomada por el propio
Manuel. Se puede ver un tweet relacionado de su marcha aquĂ: https://twitter.com/alex_savio/status/583762837971042304
(Euskara)
EP2015 antolatzaileen izenean barkamena eskatu nahi dizuegu. Barkatu
azken hitzak gure ahotik irten izanak. Ez ziren aproposak izan. Hitz ez
egoki hauek esan zituen pertsona Manuel izan zen. Aipatu behar dugu
elkarrizketa gertatu eta hurrengo egunean antolakuntzatik kanpo geratzea
erabaki zuela. Erabakiaren berri antolakuntzako beste kide batek
idatzitako tweet honetan ikus daiteke: https://twitter.com/alex_savio/status/583762837971042304
Help us do better in the future
EuroPython
is created and run by volunteers and everybody is welcome to join and
help make EuroPython a better and more welcoming conference. We need
your help to improve every aspect of EuroPython, if you can help us
please sign up for one of our EuroPython Workgroups.
Thanks
We’d like to thank  Yamila Moreno for the transcript and everyone who pointed out our mistakes.
We have been made aware of a possible controversy around a recent interview given by some of the on-site team organizers from the ACPySS
(Python San Sebastian) to the “Python en español” podcast.
In
one section of the interview, addressing ways of improving the Python
community, one of the organizers, Manuel Graña, makes statements which
can be interpreted in many ways, one of those interpretations being that
he feels that DjangoGirls and similar groups are different than the
rest of the Python community.
We have addressed this issue with the ACPySS to find out what was really meant with the statements.
It
turned out that the statements used in the interview were,
unfortunately, very poorly worded. Manuel wanted to raise the valid
question why we need separate organizations to address interests of
different groups in the community instead of trying to get the community
at large to welcome everyone in the same way.
The ACPySS
organizers and specifically Manuel himself are very sorry for the
misinterpretations and would like to apologize to everyone who felt
offended by the podcast.
EuroPython has always been a very open
minded conference and we’ve always supported activities which help grow
the community, reach out to new community members and help them feel
comfortable within the Python community.
We will strive to pay more attention to possible misinterpretations in the future, to avoid unnecessarily offending people.
For
EuroPython 2015 we are already in negotiations with DjangoGirls for a
workgroup, with the Raspberry Pi Education program and have reached out
to PyLadies to participate as well. More exciting news on this is coming
soon.
At the same time, we would like to emphasize that everyone
working hard to make EuroPython happen is doing this based on good
intentions. Just like we ask the attendees to be nice to each other,
we also expect the EuroPython organizers to be treated with the same
underlying respect and assumption of having good intentions.
Please all remember that we are one Python community
and we should act as such, regardless of backgrounds, views,
affiliations or motivations. If we want to move Python forward, we have
to do this together.