 Hello and welcome to Europe Python 2018 So we made it again this year. It was a lot of work This year we in Edinburgh Obviously, it's almost as warm as in Rimini. The weather is at least as nice. So I think we made a good choice So we want to give a special welcome to all the new your Pythonista So people who come here for the first time, how many of you are here? Can you raise your hands, please? Wow, that's excellent So we'd like to ask the regulars who come here very often because we have many many regulars to to help these new people Integrate into the conference and feel comfortable and feel at home at the conference because We're all a big family and and this is a very nice event and it basically lives By what you put into the event. We also want to welcome our Sponsors of course because without the sponsors, this would be almost impossible to do just to give you an idea the sponsors pay For almost 200 euros per for every single ticket on average that you buy for the conference So the prices would go up a lot if we would not have these sponsors So I think we should give him a hand a big hand and especially to smart kids, which is our Keystone sponsor this year You can go down to Lenox suite the way where all the sponsor booths are they have some nice things waiting for you there So who's making all this happen? Well, it's actually a very small team that makes it happen And we're all doing this in our free time none of us get paid for this So it is a lot of work and of course we and Of course, we would like to we would like to have some recognition for that as well So I'd like to ask all the volunteers up on the stage now Hey, come on guys Okay, this is a subset as you can see Fighting with tickets downstairs and all right. Yes people are still buying tickets very late So you can see all these names here all these people have helped really a lot in the conference The the ones in red there those are the board members of the Europe Python Society the organization behind your Python But we also had help from lots of other people as you can see here the team has 20 people in total and Yeah, this is how we made it happen The organization as I said behind this is the Europe Python Society We used to run just your Python, but we have more recently Extended our mission to also help the Europe European Python community So if you run a conference for example, then you can come to us and ask for grants for that conference We're gonna announce that a little on a little larger scale after the conference or maybe in the next few days Again, it's all volunteer driven. You can join you can help us if you want to Participate in this and we would like to have more people join the Europe Python Society We also have on-site volunteers who help a lot you can recognize them by By the t-shirt color so they wear these yellow t-shirts You can sign up as volunteers. Well, we have a volunteers app for that You can go to the website to the volunteers section and it has all the links You can do session sharing for example You can help with so well can't help with set up anymore But so we can help with teardown and everything else that we have to do throughout the conference So we'd appreciate somewhere out there A short hitchhiker's guide to Europe Python These are basically the the details that you have to know Wi-Fi. I think you've already connected to Wi-Fi We only have 5g Wi-Fi In some cases people don't have 5g on their devices in those cases You can come to the conference desk and we can give you a separate login for that. We have the conference app This is an it you need to download the attendify app and then you search for the code Europe Python 2018 and it should give you the The conference details and then this app has all the schedules and everything. It's a very nice app Hashtag we use Europe Python We would like to ask you not to use EP 2018 because there's a different event called electric picnic which happens Which happens every year and so every year they use EP 2018 So there's kind of a mix if you use EP 2018 We have a telegram group which is working really nicely to connect to each other So it's the channel is called Europe Python and then for everything else you just go to the conference desk And we can help you something about the venue the venue is is Organized in different levels the most important level for Like food and for coffee breaks is in level minus two. This is all the way downstairs This is in the Lennox wheat. It's a huge haul that they have down there We are currently at level three and the other rooms are distributed between those levels at close to the conference desk There is a there's a plan you can you can search for the rooms There's something I want to mention We have two sponsored rooms one is the the pentland suite. This is where we're currently sitting in This is sponsored by smart kids the keystone sponsor and then we also have The room sit law. It's called by the venue. This is sponsored by pie charm So those names are different than what you see in the venue as signage Then of course you have your back or at least you can pick it up downstairs if you haven't yet You'll find a Europe Python bottle in there again. They were so popular. We decided to have them again And of course you find lots of other things in there like nice gadgets and lots of information coupon codes for your O'Reilly for example right, but you've all come here to Not only grab a bag but also to to he's some nice talk. So we have a great lineup of keynotes We have David Marco Ines Nicole and iron or Ian. I don't know how did this is pronounced? Maybe you can tell me Ian is yeah, and These are going to be very exciting very interesting I think Marco is actually is he's Logging in from an article Yeah, so he's not physically here, but we'll have him via video link We also have some other events. We ran a few events on the last two days the training days. We had the beginners day Workshop we had a jungle workshop for women We had the training sessions. We also had a few sponsored training sessions that you were able to attend without the training passes What we're gonna have during the conference is we're gonna have Pi data tracks those are marked in the schedule We'll have a recruitment session in case you want to looking for a new job We have help desks help desk is something where you can go to a desk that we set up in Lenox suite And then there are certain projects there Running help desk sessions. You can go there ask questions and get answers from experts We have open space in two rooms. So if you want to self organize and do a session basically self-organized Then you can go downstairs to the large panel that we have next to the conference desk next to the large Schedule that we have there and you can you can just get a slot there and then run a session in one of these rooms And of course we have the poster session Posts are going to be set up in Lenox as well. And those are usually very interesting too So for the open spaces, how many of you do know do know what an open space is? Not very many people. So so the way that works is you go to the to the To the grid that we have down there you detect one of these post-its You write a session name on it you post it into one of the slots and then basically that slot is yours And then you can do in that in that room, whatever you like, of course, you have to respect the code of conduct And you can you can have sessions this may not be used for commercial presentations But it's for example if you have like an open-source project That's perfectly fine to run a session there and do something ad hoc You can also have discussions there like you can do panels whatever you like. This is up to you what you want to do there Then we have lightning talks. How many of you know lightning talks? Okay, so almost all of you these are five minute talks very short the content is completely up to you Of course, it would help if it had something to do with Python You can make it you can make it funny. You can make it interesting You could make it boring if you want to this is also completely up to you after five minutes It's over. So the strain on the attendance is not too high And again, this may not be used for commercial presentations. So please no recruitment or anything in Those I mentioned the conference app. I hope you've downloaded it the schedule in there is the most up-to-date that we have It also has lots of other information in there. It works offline So you if you don't have internet connectivity, you still can get and see the the schedule you can rate sessions So there's this the star bar in all for all these sessions. So you can give ratings to those Speakers are usually interested in getting these ratings afterwards. So we'll we'll try to publish them this year But of course this will only work if enough people actually do the ratings So we'd like to ask you to use this feature Um social event so usually at European conferences, we have a social event But this year unfortunately, we don't because we could not find a venue that could hold the number of people like 500 people And and then do a party there So unfortunately we all we can do is we we can just have an ad hoc session We can all meet at the Edinburgh grass market, for example, which is it's a nice area Plenty of pubs and restaurants and then we can basically socialize there I think that's the best that we can do you can wear your badge to show that you're your Python attendee and you can get in touch There you can have a few beers. You can have some some food It's really close to the EICC So you can easily work there Then we have a quiet room quiet room is for people who want to relax a bit who want to get off all the busy stuff that's going on here And this is in room Tinto, which is on the ground floor And of course we have a code of conduct. So we'd like to ask you all to Basically adhere to this code of conduct is code of conduct is very very simple Of course, this is just a short version. So essentially be nice to each other talk to each other communicate with each other Don't be intimidating don't be don't run any harassment The sponsors and everyone who's coming from a company. We'd like to ask to be professional don't spam There's you cannot run recruitment in in at the conference without being a sponsor If you want to if you want to contact one of the people from the COC team the COC team You see here on the right So you see myself. I'm one of them. We have Valeria. I don't know whether she's here. There she is There's Valeria Then we have Alexander who sits down here And we have Sylvia, I don't know whether she's here. I saw her downstairs. Yeah, there she is So that's Sylvia You can contact us directly in person is probably the best way to do it or you can contact us on on telegram or by email It's probably best if you if you cannot find one of us to go down to the conference desk and then ask and then we can forward They can forward you to the right people Right, then we have a few speaker guidelines very short. You should go to your session chair before your talk. You should check your notebook Please leave the adapters that we have for notebooks at the at the desk so that other people can use them as well And very important. Please upload your slides after your talk to the website So you can log into the euro python website and there's a button there to upload your slides Right, and that is it. Enjoy the conference