 EuroPython 2014! Can we get the other microphone please? Test? Okay, I hope you all had a great morning and, like us, can't wait to start with EuroPython 2014. First I want to short introduce us. This is Tony. My name is Karina. We will lead a little bit through EuroPython by giving some organizational updates every morning so that you're always up to date what's happening and so we just start with us today. Alright, so the first news are kind of sad because you didn't get your guidebooks yet. The guidebooks are going to be around tomorrow and you can pick them up probably around noon from the desk. If you need some offline material to look at the conference schedule, there are displays around in the foyer, in the entrance and in the basement. If you need wireless, if you need Wi-Fi, the SSID that you should be using is EP14 and the password is EuroPython2014 with a capital E, capital P. This is going to be in the guidebook and it's going to be printed around all the place but if you're missing it right now, EuroPython2014, capital E, capital P. So I see some of you already got their bags with their t-shirts. If you now decide that you perhaps choose the wrong t-shirt size, it is possible to switch the t-shirt but just tomorrow after the lunch break before it's not possible. Also, you can't take a bag before with you then because yeah, we have to make sure that everybody gets a fresh t-shirt and we can't guarantee then if somebody brings it back that it's not already worn so we don't want to have that. So if you want to change your mind about your t-shirt size, just come back tomorrow afternoon to the t-shirt desk which then will be at the info desk. All right, that's already from us. I want to introduce you to the chair of EuroPython 2014, Mike Miller. Thank you very much for the introduction. Good morning everybody and I also would like you to welcome to EuroPython 2014 where the European-Python community meets. Just to remind you, we are in Berlin. Welcome to Berlin and it's the year 2014 and obviously if you found a place that I don't need to introduce the place to you. First I want to start a little bit looking back. The European, EuroPython since 2002 and then I discovered some data about this conference at the EuroPython Society website and I used this data and I like to program and this is why I put a little bit programming this talk and actually this whole talk is written in an iPython notebook and so is this data there and this is the last EuroPython's over the last years. This year is starting 2002 location attendees. Unfortunately, we don't have data for all the times but we have a few but this is just the numbers but now usually with Python we reinsert data and put them in dictionaries and after we do this we can plot them very easily. Looks like this after we put in a dictionary and then you have a nice plot with Matplotlib and that's how the development over the entities per year went over the last years. See, we are rising. A lot of people are coming to the conference and this conference has a whopping 1,200 participants. So much about the past but we want to look at the future, we want to look at the next week and first I would like to invite Fabio Pliecker who is the chairman of the EuroPython Society to say a few words and say hello also. I hope you are doing well and I'd like just two words to say that I'm really happy to see all the people here. You can see but it's a lot of people and actually I will take a picture and tweet that. Okay. Hands up. That's nice. And I'm the current chairman of the EuroPython Society and the EuroPython Society is basically a society founded 10 years ago to help to maintain the carrier of the EuroPython Conference during the years to maintain the way the EuroPython Conference is set to keep it a community conference, an open conference and our job now is to try and do this as the conference scale and for us to do this we really need your help and we cannot do that by ourself and we would like the community, the EuroPython community to be as open as it could, the more open as it can and for that become a member, be part of the conference and help us to keep scaling and to keep the same kind of conference. The next days we will be on Thursday, we will be presenting the PSF and presenting the new ideas with the EuroPython Society and the new idea we have in mind to keep the conference series. So come and join us. Thank you. Thank you very much. So to become a member of the EuroPython Society and that's what we're going to do the next days. That's programming. It doesn't even fit on the slide. There's even more but I want to go through quickly what you can expect. Of course the main part or big part of the conference are the talks. So we have five prior tracks of talks. We had about 300 submissions. So 300 people want to speak. Unfortunately we have only room for 100. So that means we had a pretty strong review process and you can expect very high quality talks. Hopefully you saw it already in the program. It will be very interesting talks. I would like to call all of them. But they all will be on video so you can watch them later. Also about the talks I have a call. So we need people to help us to run this conference. It's a very big conference and we need session chairs. So if you're interested or would like to be session chair, session chair is the person who attend helps those three speakers or how many are in the session. And please sign up. Go to this website or if you cannot write it down, ask at the info desk about becoming a session chair. So it would be very helpful because we need people to help us with the conference. Also if you're a speaker, just a short announcement, there's a speaker preparation room in CO3 up here. So if you need to prepare for your talk, you need some quiet room, then you have a speaker. But please become a session chair that would help us a lot. It's not a lot of work, it's just one session. And then you're done with your help for the conference. Training sessions. So we have training sessions. There are two parallel training tracks. So very interesting trainings. They're about three hours. So if you want to get a bit deeper on the topic, then a talk, then the training is the way to go. But you need to sign up. So you had a chance to do online sign up before you might have seen it. If you haven't done so, please go down to the info desk and sign up. If you sign up and you're on the list, you're guaranteed to have a seat. If you don't sign up, you might not get a seat in the training. I might not use space, you might be lucky, but if you really want to see a training, please sign up. That helps you and helps us also to plan a little bit about the rooms and stuff like this. So please take advantage of those interesting trainings and sign up for the training session, for your favorite training sessions. So we have a lot of things going on. One of things is going on right now today, the Jungle Girls workshop. Yes. Right now at the base level, there's about 40 women learning programming with Python and Django. We had about more than 300 applications for this, but we have limited room, obviously, because we have a two-tour student range of one to three. So we have limited room and limited two-tours for sure, and therefore, we could only select a fraction of them. But it's a sponsored event, so it's free for the participants. It's just once they're through the application, they don't have to pay for it, which is a great thing. Keynotes. There will be a lot of keynotes. We start with two keynotes today, and I just put like a hashtag here. So today, we will hear keynotes about Snowden. I just put Snowden there. Everybody knows what it means. Haskell, test-driven development, something about decentralized systems and big data. These are the keynotes we're going to enjoy over the week. And you see the keynotes, speakers. I'm not going to introduce them right now. That will be done right after we even the next keynote comes. Lightning talks are very interesting, though. If you don't know Lightning talks, it's very short, five minutes per talk, and it's very short. There's no answer question answer thing. And if you're not done by five minutes, they will turn on the microphone and the next person's talk. You have to sign up. So if you want to give a keynote about anything, it should be mostly Python related. Just go downstairs to the info desk. There's a flip chart. Put your name in. And if it's a first come, first serve basis, so you put your name in, you have a chance to get in. Don't miss the Lightning talks for many people. That's one of the favorite parts of the conference. And very often they're very interesting because they're very short and precise. And I enjoy them very much. Postal session. So we decided this year I have a postal session. There will be a postal session. It will be today and afternoon. So after lunch, there will be a postal session. And this is a chance to talk to an author. It's a bit different than a talk. A talk it's, you have a few question answers. A talk is, a poster is much more personal because usually it's just you and the author of a few people. And it's a very good chance to get deeper in the one topic and a discussion. And also if you're a postal presenter, you will have a chance to introduce your poster very quickly with a one sentence thing. You just say your name and the title of your poster and what's about a few seconds. And this will be right after this, in this recruiting session. So if you're looking to schedule and find a recruiting session, we have the recruiters introduce themselves and you have a chance to do this. So if you're a postal presenter, take advantage because this potentially attracts more people to your poster. More. So I mentioned recruitment sessions. So I just put the three main sponsors here. We have 44 sponsors. And I didn't want the poster to slide the sponsors. You will see that they're all over the place. So thank you very much to our sponsors. They are very important for this conference. I can say this out of sponsors, the conference wouldn't be possible as it is now. They would have been much more expensive or whatever or wouldn't have happened at all. So sponsors are very important. And there are recruitment sessions. So if you're looking for a pricing job, that's a good chance. Or you want to know what those sponsors are doing. There will be this recruitment session in the afternoon. And they should come. And this, they, or every sponsor has a three minute short intro with a slide or two about themselves. And then after this intro, that was just mentioned poster introduction. Then that would be a postal session. And this postal session, a boost, sorry, the postal session will be in parallel to the recruitment session. So all the recruiters will be there with a small boost. And you can talk to them in person if you're interested. And please take advantage of this opportunity because these companies are very interested in good pricing programs. And in parallel, if you're not interested in recruitment, you can go and talk to the postal people. And the postal session is running longer. So you still have a chance after this recruitment session to go to the postures. Next thing, sponsored booth. Though there will be a booth over the place you see when you come in. In the entrance area, there are big booths. One level lower. There's a nice place to sit and relax. There's a night light wall, a lot of nice things, and a lot of other sponsored booths. So I encourage you to go by the booths, but the sponsors, because as I said, the sponsors help us to run this conference. And you should speak to them. And they have some nice swag, so they have pencils, and they have a lot of other nice gimmicks. So you might take something home for yourself, for your kids or whatever. Okay, that's a sponsored booth. There's a social event. On Wednesday night, there will be a social event. So there will be very good food. I heard they have very good food here. And also, after the social event, there will be a club. So downstairs there's a club. And for people that still have energy left, they can come and join as a club. The great food, I say, that's a very nice cultural program. I just put a picture of the guys that are going to run the program here. So looking forward for a very interesting program. Also, it's a very relaxed atmosphere. And pretty much everybody will be here. Also, partners are invited, so there can be a difference not to take the conference, but relaxed. And there's still possibility as a father to buy extra tickets. So if you like to, somebody just wants to come for this event, there's still some tickets left if I'm not mistaken here. The partner program, very important. So if you didn't come alone, there's a chance if you have your partner with you or your family to explore Berlin. So it's pretty inexpensive, because it's a big package of things you can do, including a cruise with a boat here and a picnic, museums and other things, though everything packaged for the whole week, something to do and in a group to experience Berlin. So I encourage you, if you have your somebody with you who might be interested to enroll them in the program, you can still buy tickets downstairs, etc. The info desk. Pie ladies, lunch and barbecue. So the pie ladies are involved in the organization of the conference and the conference in general. And there are two events I would like to pinpoint here as a lunch on Tuesday, which is tomorrow, and the barbecue on Thursday. And you need to sign up if you want to go there. So ladies, pie ladies or potential pie ladies, whoever would be interested in this pie ladies, go there, sign up and meet like-minded people at these events. And there's some food also, good food. Sprints. So the conference is five days as we see these talks and trainings. On the weekends we have sprints. So Saturday and Sunday, please sign up. That helps us to organize things, because the sprints will be catered, but we need to know how many people are there. So if you're interested, either in just taking part of the program or even just on session. So if you want to have your topic covered, go to the website that will be wiki, you can put your topic in. Just register as they put your topic in, and then hopefully a few people come to work with you on your topic or join. There's quite a few topics up there. Already join a session that's up and help them develop the Python software on this two days. There's also bar camp. So if you don't like this kind of very traditional format of a conference or if in addition you like something else and they have a bar camp which is sometimes called an un-conference. So it's a different type of conference. Typically you have one-hour sessions and there's no pre-planned schedule or talks or anything. People meet in the morning and they decide what they're going to talk about. There can be something like more traditional talks that can be very open discussions. Sometimes you want to know about the topic and people teach you. So it's a very interesting format and I encourage you to go to this bar camp. It was very interesting for me, I attended a few and it was very enjoyable. So please come to the bar camp. They have also a bar camp tool so you can also please sign up there so that we know that you're coming. Okay, your Python is not alone. We have a satellite conference. It's called PiData. So if you're interested in Python and big data, then PiData is for you. It's an event has been running many times in North America and once in Europe in February but now it's in Berlin. So if you're interested in this very hot topic, big data and Python, go to the PiData. You can meet all the folks that are instrumental in this field and talk to them. It's also on the weekend, so on Saturday and Sunday. Good. That's not nearly it. I just put together a few more things. So about the name tag, I just think, so if you get a name tag, they have versions with thicker paper and I heard they also have some kind of enforcement papers because it's a little bit thin. There was a small glitch when they printed it. At the back, if you said already, so it's kind of double here, video streaming, everything will be streamed. If you're interested in things after the conference, please go to the website and look for this buckling thing that's some software that helps you to organize. If you want to go to some pub and you want to meet some other Pythonistas, just go there, sign up and then the chance is how you'll meet other people that are interested in Python and just hang out in the evening somewhere. And those of you have a bunch of sponsor events, so please go to the schedule. There's a few sponsor events that you can go to. They have some very interesting things. Go there and some of them you need to sign up. Some of them you can show up but please go there. I'm curious to go there also. Okay, that's what's just a quick run through. And without further ado, I would like to have a nice conference and enjoyable in.