From mal at europython.eu Thu Sep 23 07:51:00 2021 From: mal at europython.eu (Marc-Andre Lemburg) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:51:00 +0200 Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython Society: List of Board Candidates Message-ID: At this year?s EuroPython Society General Assembly (GA), planned for October, we will vote in a new board of the EuroPython Society for the term 2021/2022. List of Board Candidates ------------------------ The EPS bylaws require one chair, one vice chair and 2 - 7 board members. The following candidates have stated their willingness to work on the EPS board. We are presenting them here (in alphabetical order by surname). We will be updating this list in the days before the GA. Please send in any nominations or self-nominations to board at europython.eu. Please note that our bylaws do not restrict nominations to people on this list. It is even possible to self-nominate or nominate other candidates at the GA itself. However, in the interest of giving members a better chance to review the candidate list, we?d like to encourage all nominations to be made before the GA. The following fine folks have expressed their desire to run as a group for the next EPS board elections: Patrick Arminio, Prof. Martin Christen, Nicol?s Demarchi, Raquel Dou, Anders Hammarquist, Cheukting Ho, Francesco Pierfederici and Silvia Uberti. They have a good track record of working well together and share a common vision for the betterment of the EPS via strengthening ties to the larger Python community. They will present their plans and vision during the GA. Marc-Andr? Lemburg, who has been serving on the EPS board since 2012 and as its chair since 2017 is not running for the board again, as already announced in last year?s GA. He?s looking forward to enjoying the conference from the attendee perspective again. Please see the full blog post for the board candidate introductions: https://www.europython-society.org/list-of-eps-board-candidates-for-2021-2022/ Chair / Vice-Chair Nominations ------------------------------ Raquel Dou is running for the chair position and Artur Czepiel for the vice chair position. What does the EPS Board do ? ---------------------------- The EPS board runs the day-to-day business of the EuroPython Society, including running the EuroPython conference events. 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 on the board?s Telegram group or by email on the board mailing list. Board meetings are usually run as conference calls. It is important to note that the EPS board is an active board, i.e. the board members are expected to put in a significant amount of time and effort towards the goals of the EPS and for running the EuroPython conference. This usually means 200+ hours work over a period of one year, with most of this being needed in the last six months before the conference. Many board members put in even more work to make sure that the EuroPython conferences become a success. Board members are generally expected to take on leadership roles within the EuroPython Workgroups in order to facilitate good communication and quick decision making. They should be passionate about EuroPython, the Python community and working in a team of volunteers. 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://www.europython-society.org/list-of-eps-board-candidates-for-2021-2022/ Tweet: https://twitter.com/europythons/status/1441004159000621058 Thanks, -- EuroPython Society https://www.europython-society.org/ From mal at europython.eu Sat Sep 25 11:42:03 2021 From: mal at europython.eu (Marc-Andre Lemburg) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 17:42:03 +0200 Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython Society: General Assembly 2021 Message-ID: <5203f989-a45a-eea4-54fd-c77a63d3fd50@europython.eu> As last year, we are holding the General Assembly (GA) of the EuroPython Society (EPS) online for this year. General Assembly ---------------- In accordance with our bylaws, we are calling for the EuroPython Society General Assembly to be held on Sunday, October 10th 2020, from 19:00 - 21:00 CEST. We will use a Zoom meeting to hold the event and send around the URL closer to the event. All EPS members are welcome to join and vote at the meeting. Please be aware that we cannot allow non-EPS members to join, as we often do at the in-person GAs we hold at the conference, since we would then not be able to control access to the Zoom call. Board Nominations ----------------- As every year, we will vote in a new board. We have already sent out the list of board nominations in a separate blog post on 2021-09-23. Please see that post for details on the candidates and the nomination process. Motions by the Members ---------------------- EuroPython Society Members can propose motions to be put forward and voted on at the General Assembly. If you want to put forward a motion, please send this to board at europython.eu no later than Sunday, 2021-10-03, so that we can add them to the agenda. The bylaws require that any such motions be announced no later than 5 days before the GA and we will need time to clarify details and prepare the agenda. Agenda ------ We will publish the agenda with all motions put forward by the board and the members on Tuesday, 2020-10-05. The agenda will follow the template set out in our bylaws under section 8. https://www.europython-society.org/bylaws Reports ------- All reports for the GA will be published on Friday, 2020-10-08, to give the members enough time to read them and prepare questions. We?ll then answer any questions at the GA. 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://www.europython-society.org/europython-society-general-assembly-2021/ Tweet: https://twitter.com/europythons/status/1441788705514065921 Thanks, -- EuroPython Society https://www.europython-society.org/ From mal at europython.eu Mon Sep 27 10:23:25 2021 From: mal at europython.eu (Marc-Andre Lemburg) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:23:25 +0200 Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2021: Edited videos of the first day available Message-ID: <840fbe7c-f20e-da4a-5535-76fe0ff027c5@europython.eu> We?re happy to release the first 42 cut videos of EuroPython 2021 covering the first day sessions of the conference. You can watch them on our YouTube channel: * EuroPython 2021 Playlist * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8uoeex94UhHgMD9GOCbEHWku7pEPx9fW Over the next few weeks, we?ll continue releasing the videos for the second and third day of the conference. In total, we will have more than 115 videos with lots of valuable and interesting content for you, so please stop by and check the playlist for more videos, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. http://europython.tv/ 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/europython-2021-edited-videos-of-the-first-day-available/ Tweet: https://twitter.com/europython/status/1442493825491025924 Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2021 Team https://ep2021.europython.eu/ https://www.europython-society.org/