Really good to hear that! Including PyCon KR, some of PyCons in APAC group have decided or considering go virtual as well.
Cheers On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:56 PM M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > 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 bo...@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 > sponsor...@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/ > > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Community mailing list > PSF-Community@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community >
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