From mal at europython.eu Thu Jul 2 05:05:53 2020 From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 11:05:53 +0200 Subject: [EuroPython-Announce] EuroPython 2020: Our Keynotes Message-ID: <5a0d72bc-11ac-c92a-f8a1-a9d6d8ce033b@europython.eu> We?re happy to announce our keynote lineup for EuroPython 2020. * EuroPython 2020 Keynotes * https://ep2020.europython.eu/events/keynotes/ Guido van Rossum - Q&A ---------------------- In this session, you?ll get a chance to get your questions answered by Guido van Rossum, our retired BDFL. In order to submit a question, please use the following Google form: Guido van Rossum Q&A: Question Submission: https://forms.gle/cAaBgUeVEBgjaDrH7 Siddha Ganju - 30 Golden Rules of Deep Learning Performance ----------------------------------------------------------- ?Watching paint dry is faster than training my deep learning model.? ?If only I had ten more GPUs, I could train my model in time.? ?I want to run my model on a cheap smartphone, but it?s probably too heavy and slow.? If this sounds like you, then you might like this talk. Exploring the landscape of training and inference, we cover a myriad of tricks that step-by-step improve the efficiency of most deep learning pipelines, reduce wasted hardware cycles, and make them cost-effective. We identify and fix inefficiencies across different parts of the pipeline, including data preparation, reading and augmentation, training, and inference. With a data-driven approach and easy-to-replicate TensorFlow examples, finely tune the knobs of your deep learning pipeline to get the best out of your hardware. And with the money you save, demand a raise! Naomi Ceder - Staying for the Community: Building Community in the face of Covid-19 ------------------------------------------ Python communities around the world, large and small are facing loss - from the loss of in person meetups and conferences to the loss of employment and even the potential loss of health and life. As communities we are all confronting uncertainty and unanswered questions. In this talk I would like to reflect on some of those questions. What are communities doing now to preserve a sense of community in the face of this crisis? What might we do and what options will we have for coming events? How can we build and foster community and still keep everyone safe? What challenges might we all face in the future? What sources of support can we find? What are our sources of optimism and hope? Alejandro Saucedo - Meditations on First Deployment: A Practical Guide to Responsible Development ---------------------------------------------------- As the impact of software increasingly reaches farther and wider, our professional responsibility as developers becomes more critical to society. The production systems we design, build and maintain often bring inherent adversities with complex technical, societal and even ethical challenges. The skillsets required to tackle these challenges require us to go beyond the algorithms, and require cross-functional collaboration that often goes beyond a single developer. In this talk we introduce intuitive and practical insights from a few of the core ethics themes in software including Privacy, Equity, Trust and Transparency. We cover their importance, the growing societal challenges, and how organisations such as The Institute for Ethical AI, The Linux Foundation, the Association for Computer Machinery, NumFocus, the IEEE and the Python Software Foundation are contributing to these critical themes through standards, policy advise and open source software initiatives. We finally will wrap up the talk with practical steps that any individual can take to get involved and contribute to some of these great open initiatives, and contribute to these critical ongoing discussions. EuroPython 2020 is waiting for you ---------------------------------- We?ve compiled a full program for the event: - more than 120 sessions, - more than 120 speakers from around the world, - 4 brilliant keynotes, - 2 exciting lightning talk blocks, - 4 all-day tracks, with a whole track dedicated to data science topics, - a poster track, - a virtual social event, - an after party, - and lots of socializing on our conference platform. Conference tickets are available on our registration page. We hope to see lots of you at the conference from July 23-26. Rest assured that we?ll make this a great event again ? even within the limitations of running the conference online. https://ep2020.europython.eu/registration/buy-tickets/ 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/622517324925321216/europython-2020-our-keynotes Tweet: https://twitter.com/europython/status/1278608198870749184 Thanks, -- EuroPython 2020 Team https://ep2020.europython.eu/ https://www.europython-society.org/ From mal at europython.eu Tue Jul 14 14:00:30 2020 From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:00:30 +0200 Subject: [EuroPython-Announce] EuroPython 2020: Please configure your tickets Message-ID: We would like to remind you how you can configure your tickets and profiles, so that we get the right information for on-boarding you on our Discord server in the coming days and your communication preferences. This is especially important in case you bought tickets for other people. Without having the registered on our website and assigned a ticket, we cannot on-board them to our Discord server. Please see our blog post for screenshots: https://blog.europython.eu/post/623636263112720384/europython-2020-please-configure-your-tickets 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. This will take you to a form where you can find the name as we will need it for the Discord registration, 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. 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/623636263112720384/europython-2020-please-configure-your-tickets Tweet: https://twitter.com/europython/status/1283084123188453379 Thanks, -- EuroPython 2020 Team https://ep2020.europython.eu/ https://www.europython-society.org/ From mal at europython.eu Fri Jul 17 03:51:16 2020 From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:51:16 +0200 Subject: [EuroPython-Announce] EuroPython 2020: Find a new job at the conference Message-ID: We?d like to draw your attention to our job board, with plenty of job ads from our sponsors: * EuroPython 2020 Job Board * https://ep2020.europython.eu/sponsor/job-board/ Our sponsors would love to get in touch with you, so please have a look and visit them at their sponsor exhibit channel on Discord or contact them via the links and email addresses given on the page. Job ad emails ------------- We will also send out job ad emails to attendees who have agreed to receiving these emails. If you are interested, please log in, go to your profile and enable the recruiting email option in the privacy section: https://ep2020.europython.eu/user-panel/privacy-settings/ Note that we will not give your email addresses to sponsors, but only send out these emails on behalf of them. 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/623783726150778880/europython-2020-find-a-new-j$ Tweet: https://twitter.com/europython/status/1283720815146565632 Thanks, -- EuroPython 2020 Team https://ep2020.europython.eu/ https://www.europython-society.org/ From mal at europython.eu Mon Jul 20 09:06:23 2020 From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:06:23 +0200 Subject: [EuroPython-Announce] EuroPython 2020: Introducing our Diamond Sponsor Bloomberg Message-ID: We are very pleased to have Bloomberg as Diamond Sponsor for EuroPython 2020. Without sponsors like Bloomberg, we wouldn't be able to make the event affordable. You will be able to visit their sponsor exhibit rooms and take the opportunity to chat with their staff to learn more about the large Python eco-system they have built internally and how they are collaborating with the Python community. Please read a hosted blog post from Bloomberg on our blog with full detail: https://blog.europython.eu/post/624164489818980352/europython-2020-introducing-our-diamond-sponsor 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/624164489818980352/europython-2020-introducing-our-diamond-sponsor Tweet: https://twitter.com/europython/status/1285198014060154882 Thanks, -- EuroPython 2020 Team https://ep2020.europython.eu/ https://www.europython-society.org/ From mal at europython.eu Tue Jul 21 05:02:25 2020 From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:02:25 +0200 Subject: [EuroPython-Announce] EuroPython 2020: Presenting our Conference Booklet Message-ID: <6b9e2ecf-3b75-4c04-656c-e1a00cf91286@europython.eu> Our designer Jessica has created a beautiful conference booklet for you to use during the conference and keep as a memory afterwards. It provides all details, schedule, keynotes, sponsor listings, etc. in a single PDF. * EuroPython 2020 Conference Booklet * https://ep2020.europython.eu/events/conference-booklet/ We'd normally give out the booklet as part of the conference bag, but since we?re running the event online, we?ve put up the PDF of the booklet instead for your to enjoy. If you feel like there something in our program which you may benefit from or you just want to get a feeling for what a EuroPython conference is like, please consider joining the event. Tickets still available ----------------------- Even though we have surpassed the 900 tickets mark already, we still have tickets available, both in form of the paid conference & sprint tickets as well as the free sprints-only tickets. Please head over to our registration page to book your tickets: https://ep2020.europython.eu/registration/buy-tickets/ 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/624240002899066880/europython-2020-presenting-our-conference-booklet Tweet: https://twitter.com/europython/status/1285498603360923656 Thanks, -- EuroPython 2020 Team https://ep2020.europython.eu/ https://www.europython-society.org/ From mal at europython.eu Wed Jul 22 05:22:47 2020 From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:22:47 +0200 Subject: [EuroPython-Announce] EuroPython 2020: Data Science Track Message-ID: We are excited to announce a complete two day data science track at EuroPython 2020 Online, happening on Thursday and Friday (July 23 - 24). Yes, that?s starting tomorrow. Sorry for the short notice :-) * Data Science @ EuroPython 2020 * https://ep2020.europython.eu/events/data-science/ The data science track is part of EuroPython 2020, so you won?t need to buy an extra ticket to attend. We will have a two day track featuring more than 20 keynotes, full-length talks and posters: - Keynotes in the Microsoft Room - Talks in the Parrot Room - Posters in the Poster Rooms The full program is available on our data science page: https://ep2020.europython.eu/events/data-science/ If you?d like to attend the data science track at EuroPython 2020, please register for EuroPython 2020 soon. Dates and Registration ---------------------- EuroPython 2020 will be held online from July 23-26 2020. You can register on our website: https://ep2020.europython.eu/registration/buy-tickets/ If you want to learn more about the online setup, please check the Setup section on our website: https://ep2020.europython.eu/setup/online-conference/ After buying a ticket, please register on our Discord server, following the instructions in the order confirmation email. You will even be able to buy tickets on the days themselves, however, please be aware that this may cause delays in your Discord signup. Please see our website for more information. 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/624331411913146368/europython-2020-data-science-track Tweet: https://twitter.com/europython/status/1285864453511294976 Thanks, -- EuroPython 2020 Team https://ep2020.europython.eu/ https://www.europython-society.org/