From mal at europython.eu Wed Dec 3 21:40:09 2014 From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:40:09 +0100 Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2015: Review Phase Message-ID: <547F7529.9040106@europython.eu> The EuroPython Society (EPS) is happy to announce that we have received a promising proposal from an on-site team in Spain. We are currently reviewing the proposal and will follow up with the team to clarify any questions. Following the CFP process, the amended proposal will then be due by Friday next week (2014-12-12): http://www.europython-society.org/post/101421890815/europython-2015-call-for-participation-on-site-teams Given that we only received a single proposal, the final decision will likely be made just in time for Christmas :-) We could also like to remind everyone interested in helping with the EuroPython 2015 organization, that the Call for Volunteers is still open: * EuroPython Workgroups: Call for Volunteers http://www.europython-society.org/post/99718376575/europython-workgroups-call-for-volunteers Thank you, -- EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/ From ntoll at ntoll.org Thu Dec 4 12:33:37 2014 From: ntoll at ntoll.org (Nicholas H.Tollervey) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:33:37 +0000 Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2015: Review Phase In-Reply-To: <547F7529.9040106@europython.eu> References: <547F7529.9040106@europython.eu> Message-ID: <54804691.2030306@ntoll.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Marc-Andre, Spain is a big place. Where exactly are they proposing to hold it? (Just being nosey) ;-) N. On 03/12/14 20:40, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > The EuroPython Society (EPS) is happy to announce that we have > received a promising proposal from an on-site team in Spain. > > We are currently reviewing the proposal and will follow up with the > team to clarify any questions. Following the CFP process, the > amended proposal will then be due by Friday next week > (2014-12-12): > > > http://www.europython-society.org/post/101421890815/europython-2015-call-for-participation-on-site-teams > > Given that we only received a single proposal, the final decision > will likely be made just in time for Christmas :-) > > We could also like to remind everyone interested in helping with > the EuroPython 2015 organization, that the Call for Volunteers is > still open: > > * EuroPython Workgroups: Call for Volunteers > http://www.europython-society.org/post/99718376575/europython-workgroups-call-for-volunteers > > Thank you, -- EuroPython Society > http://www.europython-society.org/ > _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing > list EuroPython at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUgEaOAAoJEP0qBPaYQbb6J44H/2qUsCxh8COY7SPNS3hsWCNV iz/u22fADmc5GnJiQbPjQ5gspCGAzDbJjoG+6iO5IxalJHSOsSSYTRBpKWnkQc3U SpuANwqlYVDZG9P8z951H0bGG1WFqWf2g7R6Uyhom0E2xswxEguOU3ehOgNEyxZh E7HmgP4bQKIgZd23JvXkhtXJzvRyS6xhFUlDksCSmuBf1eyCqyOHQTnUNlhOyNCX C/cs59v7KyT4Q4q6Ich6lWHS4YL31vGQYNmBtnCUk/ajBhFF3M1Y22ZTeQQjS0CU JA77S4jr3TEPCt7gvw6YylDJP8Nrg0XnHmkWGsSWs/jpBnZvW5pr50GqgrMKk00= =4kVm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From mal at europython.eu Thu Dec 4 12:46:02 2014 From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:46:02 +0100 Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2015: Review Phase In-Reply-To: <54804691.2030306@ntoll.org> References: <547F7529.9040106@europython.eu> <54804691.2030306@ntoll.org> Message-ID: <5480497A.6090307@europython.eu> Hi Nicholas, On 04.12.2014 12:33, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > Hi Marc-Andre, > > Spain is a big place. Where exactly are they proposing to hold it? (Just being nosey) ;-) Ah, right, should probably have been a bit more specific :-) The proposal is for Bilbao in Spain and the proposed dates are in July, but don't book your hotels and flights just yet ;-). > N. > > On 03/12/14 20:40, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> The EuroPython Society (EPS) is happy to announce that we have received a promising proposal >> from an on-site team in Spain. > >> We are currently reviewing the proposal and will follow up with the team to clarify any >> questions. Following the CFP process, the amended proposal will then be due by Friday next >> week (2014-12-12): > > >> http://www.europython-society.org/post/101421890815/europython-2015-call-for-participation-on-site-teams > >> Given that we only received a single proposal, the final decision will likely be made just >> in time for Christmas :-) > >> We could also like to remind everyone interested in helping with the EuroPython 2015 >> organization, that the Call for Volunteers is still open: > >> * EuroPython Workgroups: Call for Volunteers >> http://www.europython-society.org/post/99718376575/europython-workgroups-call-for-volunteers > >> Thank you, -- EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/ >> _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython at python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython > > > -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Director EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/ From alina at dev.by Fri Dec 12 13:46:25 2014 From: alina at dev.by (Alina Dolgikh) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:46:25 +0300 Subject: [EuroPython] Call for speakers for the first PyCon Belarus. Europython Message-ID: Hello, dear community! I represent Belarusian Python community. Our community has regular monthly meet-ups for 70-100 persons and we are going to develop it further. We are planning to make the first Belarusian PyCon on the 31st of January and looking for speakers. We will be glad to meet at our event speakers, which are experienced in public talks (links for videos of public talks or for the other conferences web-pages are preferable) and can speak at - highload in Python - functional style Python - best practices on popular tools and libraries using - data analysis - CI, pypy, C-extensions, python performance - Python in mobile OS (Tizen for example) - etc. Organising team is ready to cover the costs for the road and accommodation for interested speakers. Thanks in advance and, please, send your responses or recommendations to *alina at dev.by * Regards, Alina Dolgikh, PyCon Minsk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mal at europython.eu Mon Dec 15 11:37:21 2014 From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:37:21 +0100 Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2015: Submitted Proposal Message-ID: <548EB9E1.1070408@europython.eu> The EuroPython Society (EPS) is happy to announce that we have received the amended proposal from the ACPySS team in Spain (http://www.pyss.org/) to hold EuroPython 2015 in Bilbao, Spain. We had been discussing questions with them in the last couple of days. On-site Team Proposal --------------------- Following the CFP process, we are now publishing the redacted version of the proposal, which has all the confidential information removed: ACPySS proposal for EuroPython 2015 in Bilbao (41MB PDF) https://www.dropbox.com/s/bx19vj8xvwd8wc9/Proposal-Bilbao-final.pdf?dl=1 The EPS board will now do a final review and announce the decision in the next two weeks (2014-12-26 latest). Please send your feedback ------------------------- We would like to encourage feedback from the EuroPython and Python community regarding the proposal. Please send your emails to the europython-improve mailing list (you will have to sign up to that list before being able to post there): https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve Thank you, -- EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/ From omfgnuts at checkio.org Fri Dec 19 14:46:12 2014 From: omfgnuts at checkio.org (Nikita Demchenko) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:46:12 +0200 Subject: [EuroPython] (no subject) Message-ID: - * CheckiO: Game for Coder Beings* ? *Hey, what?s up PyPeople,* I wanted to intoduce to you our beloved project ? CheckiO . CheckiO is the game for Python Coders and an open platform for AI programming. We see a lot of coders using CheckiO to pump up their skill by solving various tasks. Play interesting coding based games and check solutions of others to check how other dealt with task. Or to teach others and show that coding is fun! You can even use CheckiO as resource for solving your tasks, create and publish challenge and watch how people all over the world are solving it for you! We would love to hear your feedback or simply see CheckiO being helpful to you in any possible way. *Try CheckiO * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mal at europython.eu Tue Dec 23 18:34:48 2014 From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:34:48 +0100 Subject: [EuroPython] Voted in new EPS members Message-ID: <5499A7B8.1050307@europython.eu> We would like to welcome the next 16 new EPS members to the EuroPython Society. The EPS now has 111 members and we?d love to grow more ... Become an official EPS member ----------------------------- If you have attended a EuroPython conference and would like to have a say in the organization or simply show your support by being a society member, please consider signing up using our application form: http://www.europython-society.org/application EPS membership is free: http://www.europython-society.org/members We?d love to hear your suggestions ---------------------------------- We regard the EPS as representation of the EuroPython attendees and are working hard to make every single EuroPython conference a professional, high quality and fun event. Even if you don?t want to be an official EPS member, we would still like to encourage you to send in your suggestions for enhancements, changes or anything we could do to make EuroPython an even better event. Please contact us at board at europython-society.org. Thank you, -- EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/ From mal at europython.eu Wed Dec 24 12:45:54 2014 From: mal at europython.eu (M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:45:54 +0100 Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2015 will be in Bilbao, Spain ! Message-ID: <549AA772.1030401@europython.eu> The EuroPython Society (EPS) is happy to announce that we have decided to accept the proposal from the on-site team ACPySS (http://www.pyss.org/) in Spain to hold EuroPython 2015 in Bilbao, Spain. The decision was made in Monday?s EPS board meeting. We are extremely happy to have received the proposal and would like to thank everyone from the ACPySS team for their work on the excellent submission: * ACPySS proposal for EuroPython 2015 in Bilbao (41MB PDF) https://www.dropbox.com/s/bx19vj8xvwd8wc9/Proposal-Bilbao-final.pdf?dl=1 The cooperation with the ACPySS throughout the proposal process has been very productive. The EPS board is now working together with the ACPySS on the venue selection. The conference dates will be announced as soon as we have finalized the venue. Sponsoring EuroPython --------------------- Companies who would like to signup as EuroPython 2015 sponsor are encouraged to contact the sponsor workgroup at sponsoring at europython.eu. We will be taking on launch sponsors early in January. The two venues we have for the conference have plenty of room for sponsor booths, so we will try to make EuroPython 2015 as effective as possible for sponsors by offering more booth space and sponsors slots than ever before. This is your chance to reach out to more than a thousand enthusiastic and highly motivated EuroPython attendees ! EuroPython Workgroups --------------------- In Monday?s meeting we have also initiated the following EuroPython workgroups and will follow up in separate blog posts: * Finance * Sponsors * Web * On-site Team We are still looking for volunteers to help with the following workgroups: * Conference Administration (contracts, venue contact, ticket support, satellite conferences, legal support, insurance, licensing) * Support (helpdesk, attendee support contact, visa help, travel management, chat support for attendees) * Financial Aid (setup, grant selection, aid organisation) * Marketing/Design (brochures, advertisements, banners, flyers, travel guide, t-shirts, lanyards, badges, panels, logo) * Media (video recording, live streaming, live translations, uploads to YouTube and archive.org) More information about workgroups is available on our workgroups page: http://www.europython-society.org/workgroups If you want to help, please apply for one or more workgroups which you feel match your interests and experience. If you?d like to help, but don?t have enough experience, yet are willing to learn, please apply as well. To apply please send an email to board at europython.eu with your details, the motivation for applying (basically why and how you think you could help) and the workgroup(s) you?d like to apply for. Thank you and Merry Christmas, -- EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/