From mal at europython.eu  Sun Mar  8 07:55:20 2020
From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 12:55:20 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2020: Launching the conference website
Message-ID: <1845fff1-5114-06ac-f433-37e5796209ee@europython.eu>

We are very excited to announce the launch of our website for
EuroPython 2020:

		     * EuroPython 2020 Website *

		    https://ep2020.europython.eu/


Our web WG worked hard on putting the finishing touches on the website
and many other team members helped update the content.

We have ported the accounts from last year to the new website, so you
should be able to login with last year?s details. That said, we?d
recommend changing your password as best practice.

Please note that we have also updated the profile page, so after login
you will be redirected to the profile page to make any necessary
adjustments.


More updates:
-------------

- The CFP will launch as planned on Monday, March 9th.

- We are also considering to open early bird sales on Wednesday, March
  11 at 12:00 CET. However, since we?re still waiting for the VAT ID
  registration, we won?t be able to produce invoices yet. Those will
  get delivered later when we have the VAT ID - much like in
  Edinburgh, where we had similar delays.

- Ticket prices are already available on the registration page. Unlike
  in previous years, we are publishing all prices at once, so that you
  can get a better overview.

- As you probably know, the Corona virus has hit Europe and we are
  closely monitoring the situation. We will publish separate blog
  posts on this topic. So far, we are hopeful that the situation will
  have calmed down by July.

- We have prepared the sponsorship packages and will announce these in
  separate blog post. Early bird sponsors will again receive a 10%
  discount on the package price. If you?re interested in becoming a
  sponsor, please contact our sponsor team at
  sponsoring at europython.eu.


Help spread the word
--------------------

Please help us spread this message by sharing it on your social
networks as widely as possible. Thank you !

Link to the blog post:

https://blog.europython.eu/post/611955238740557824/europython-2020-launching-the-conference-website

Tweet:

https://twitter.com/europython/status/1236620559443800066


Enjoy,
--
EuroPython 2020 Team
https://ep2020.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/


From mal at europython.eu  Mon Mar  9 08:44:50 2020
From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 13:44:50 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2020: Call for Proposals now open
Message-ID: <53504ca8-2f2a-b794-1363-f5fae7e8972a@europython.eu>

We have opened the Call for Proposals today. It will be left open for
three weeks and then close on:

		    Sunday, March 29 23:59:59 CEST

In order to submit a proposal, please log in to the site (or create an
account first) and then proceed to the CFP page:


	 * https://ep2020.europython.eu/call-for-proposals/ *


We?re looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: all levels of
programming from novice to advanced, applications, frameworks, data
science, Python projects, internals or topics which you?re excited
about, your experiences with Python and its ecosystem, creative or
artistic things you?ve done with Python, to name a few.

EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about
your use of Python.

Since feedback shows that our audience is very interested in advanced
topics, we?d appreciate more entries in this category for EuroPython
2020.

Please help spread word about Call for Proposals to anyone who might
be interested. Thanks.


Help spread the word
--------------------

Please help us spread this message by sharing it on your social
networks as widely as possible. Thank you !

Link to the blog post:

https://blog.europython.eu/post/612113768932098048/europython-2020-call-for-proposals-now-open

Tweet:

https://twitter.com/europython/status/1236995749273092102


Enjoy,
--
EuroPython 2020 Team
https://ep2020.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/


From mal at europython.eu  Thu Mar 12 11:07:20 2020
From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:07:20 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2020 and COVID-19
Message-ID: <eab3fdb4-332a-05c4-275f-ec6c966eeb8c@europython.eu>

As you probably already know, the Coronavirus is spreading throughout
Europe and we wanted to give you an update on our current plans around
on the situation.

We will update this blog post as new information becomes available:
https://blog.europython.eu/post/612393987829039104/europython-2020-and-covid-19

2020-03-12:

   The number of cases in Ireland is still low compared to other
   countries, but the Irish government is already starting to put
   limited bans on larger indoor events.

   Since EuroPython is planned for July 20-26, we are hopeful that the
   situation will have improved by then and continue the conference
   planning with the aim of having the conference on the planned date.

   We would still like to ask all attendees to take the necessary and
   recommended hygienic precautions when attending the event and pay
   close attention to your country?s travel guidelines. If you don?t
   feel well, please do not attend the conference - instead, please
   follow the COVID-19 advice of the Irish Health Service. We will
   refund your ticket.

   Should the conference need to be canceled as a result of the
   official ban still being in effect in July, we will refund all
   tickets - even after the official refund cut-off date (June
   19th). We are in discussion with the venue to explore options in
   case the conference has to be canceled, which we will share with
   you soon as we have any update.

Because the situation is very much in flux, we would recommend that
you make booking arrangements with an option to cancel the booking
closer to the event date.

Resources:

- Irish Governement: COVID-19 (Coronavirus): Advice

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/472f64-covid-19-coronavirus-guidance-and-advice/

- Irish Health Service: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/coronavirus/coronavirus.html

- Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases Overview (with daily updates)

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

- WHO: Q&A on coronaviruses (COVID-19)
  https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses

- Irish Department of Foreign Affairs: Travel Advice
  https://www.dfa.ie/travel/travel-advice/


Help spread the word
--------------------

Please help us spread this message by sharing it on your social
networks as widely as possible. Thank you !

Link to the blog post:

https://blog.europython.eu/post/612393987829039104/europython-2020-and-covid-19

Tweet:

https://twitter.com/europython/status/1238115794896240642

Thanks,
--
EuroPython 2020 Team
https://ep2020.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/


From mal at europython.eu  Tue Mar 17 05:46:15 2020
From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:46:15 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2020: Going virtual / EuroPython 2021:
 Dublin, Ireland
Message-ID: <7fefaedf-2dfe-6e06-8d3a-eab45571779b@europython.eu>

In our blog post on the COVID-19 last week, we were still hopeful that
the situation would improve in time for the event in July. The last
few days have shown us that we need to have a more realistic view on
how things will develop in the coming months:

https://blog.europython.eu/post/612393987829039104/europython-2020-and-covid-19

Right now, we are at a point in the conference organization where we
have invested a lot of time into the preparation of the conference,
but have not started ticket sales, entered sponsorship agreements or
ordered conference and marketing material.

We also had discussions with the venue and caterer on possible options
to address the risk of not being able to hold the event in July due to
government regulations preventing indoor gatherings.


EuroPython 2021
---------------

In our EuroPython Society Board call last night, we discussed the
situation, looked at the options and decided to take the offer of the
venue to postpone the in-person conference to next year.


	 * EuroPython 2021 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, *
		   * from July 26 - August 1 2021 *


How about a virtual EuroPython 2020 ?
-------------------------------------

Since we all love EuroPython, the community and good vibes coming from
such gatherings, we are now considering turning this year?s EuroPython
2020 conference into a virtual event.

For this, we?d like to gather some feedback and have created a form
for you to let us know what your thoughts are on such a virtual setup:


	   * EuroPython 2020 going virtual feedback form *

		 https://forms.gle/dwMYXVR4RFAqvthP6


If we go for the virtual setup for EuroPython 2020, the dates will
likely change a bit, so ticket sales will start a little later. For
now, we will leave the EuroPython 2020 Call for Proposals (CfP)
open. Please note that those talks will then have to be held from your
notebook/desktop without face-to-face audience contact. On the other
hand, many more people could join in, since there?s no travel
involved. We will aim to make the virtual event as interactive as
possible.


Code name: EuroPython Winter Edition
------------------------------------

While we?re at it, we?d also like to use the form to gather some
feedback on the idea to have a winter EuroPython event, one where we
run a BarCamp/Sprint/Hackathon style setup in a smaller setting.


Help spread the word
--------------------

Please help us spread this message by sharing it on your social
networks as widely as possible. Thank you !

Link to the blog post:

https://blog.europython.eu/post/612826526375919616/europython-2020-going-virtual-europython-2021

Tweet:

https://twitter.com/europython/status/1239845360694067201

Thanks,
--
EuroPython 2020 Team
https://ep2020.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/


From mal at europython.eu  Tue Mar 31 07:52:49 2020
From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:52:49 +0200
Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2020: Online conference from July 23-26
Message-ID: <d4126967-f9a1-de21-3087-80b5db9f8f4b@europython.eu>

In the last two weeks, we have discussed and investigated concepts
around running this year?s EuroPython conference as an online
conference. We have looked at conference tools, your feedback, drafted
up ideas on what we can do to make the event interesting and what we
can accomplish given our limited resources.

Today, we are happy to announce that we will be running


			 * EuroPython 2020 *

			from July 23 - 26 2020
		       as an online conference


We are planning the following structure:

- 2 conference days with keynotes, talks, lightning talks, poster
  session (Thursday and Friday)

- 2 sprint days with multiple sprint teams (Saturday and Sunday)

Attending the conference days will require a ticket, participating in
the sprint days will be free.


We will publish additional information on the new format as it becomes
available. A few updates for today (more details will follow in
separate blog posts):

Call for Papers (CFP)
---------------------

With the new plan in place, we will extend and retarget the CFP we had
been running in the last three weeks to the online setup.

Please note that we will not have training sessions at EuroPython
2020. We will have keynotes, 30 and 45-minute talks, panels,
interactive sessions, as well as try to come up with a format for
doing posters and lightning talks.

Unlike for our in-person event, speakers will get free tickets to the
event, since we don?t have to cover catering costs.

We need your help
-----------------

Given that we had already put a lot of work into the in-person event
organization, a lot of which we?ll now have to adapt or redo for the
online set up in the few months ahead of us, we will need more help
from the community to make this happen.

If you would like to help, please write to board at europython.eu. We are
specifically looking for people with experience using online
conference tools to help host tracks during the conference days.

Sponsoring
----------

As for the in-person event, we will have sponsorship packages
available for the online event as well. Because the format is
different, we?ll have to adjust the packages we had intended for the
in-person to an online setup.

If you are interested in sponsoring EuroPython 2020, please write to
sponsoring at europython.eu. We will then send you more details, as they
become available.


Help spread the word
--------------------

Please help us spread this message by sharing it on your social
networks as widely as possible. Thank you !

Link to the blog post:

https://blog.europython.eu/post/614102095419850752/europython-2020-online-conference-from-july-23-26

Tweet:

https://twitter.com/europython/status/1244947459006173184

Thanks,
--
EuroPython 2020 Team
https://ep2020.europython.eu/
https://www.europython-society.org/