 Hello everyone, how are you? Welcome to Rimini, so Let's start First of all, I'd like to I'd like to welcome all the new Europythonists, I know that we have a lot of regulars coming back to Europython every single year Which is great as well of course, but of course we we always like to have new people come to the community and then Sorry It's not working so we always like to welcome new people to the community and I think it's it's very nice That we always get new people to the conference. I also like to welcome the sponsors Because without the sponsors you'd be paying at least 200 euros more per ticket So I think they deserve a good hand from you So who's behind all this? It's a small team of volunteers We are about 10 people who are really working hard to make this happen And of those 10 people we have two people here up on the stage Actually, we have more we are three This is Christian. He's the chair of the conference So let's talk a little bit about the Europython society. So it's the non-profit organization behind the Europython It's it's quite old from 2004 It runs Europython and it supports the Europython community Yes, as you can read we are all volunteers and we do this mostly just for fun Right. So here's a small slide with the with the basic details that you need to know about your person So one thing hello Hello No, it's not working Someone hit some button. Hello Okay, so I have to shout so These are the basic details. So you have the Wi-Fi Europython 2017 both as SSID and as password We have a conference app in the app stores. You can download it has the schedule We update regularly and we use it to push notifications to you to update you We have a standard hashtag that we use for social channels, which is half your Python We have a telegram group a public one That you can search on telegram and then you can participate there So we have lots and lots of people they're helping each other, which is very nice And for everything else that you want to know we have the conference desk Okay, and you also have a very nice bag. What do you have inside the bag? You have the booklet of the conference. You have some coupons from the sponsors a very nice shirt a super made in Italy bottle and Some gadgets from the sponsors and you can find a lot of things inside the booklet Okay, so this is This is a map of the venue. So we have two floors in this venue We have an upper floor with the keynote room, which is this one Next door. We have a second room, which is just as large as this one. We're using that for talks on the ground floor we have a few more rooms to the if you go around the The corridor if you go to the to the right, we have the pie charm room We have the Python anywhere room and we have the room arco, which is reserved for open space on the left side you have the training rooms tempio one and tempio two and In the middle right in the middle you have this large Room called piazza and this is where we have all the sponsor booths Catering so we have two coffee breaks and we have the lunch and yeah, it's Italian food Also, you can see the water dispensers all around the venue and please use your bottle and This year we don't have breakfast Right. So of course you want to know what talks on and when and if there are any changes So for that we have like I said the conference app. We also have the website There is going to be a conference info system. I don't know whether it's working yet Plus, of course, we have the booklet about the booklet I must say that we had quite a few changes in the program So the booklet was printed three weeks ago just like the display that you see downstairs So the book schedule unfortunately is not really up to date. So it's always good to have a look in the conference app and To check for any changes Okay, so we need help to run the conference. So we need session chairs So, please look for the organizer or for the volunteer to join for this Yeah, you can go up on the website on the website. There's on the registration volunteer There's a link to the volunteer app and you can sign up there So we definitely need a few more session chairs to make everything happen We are not enough people like I said in the beginning just ten people is just not enough to run a conference like this we have we have six keynotes and We have five keynotes in total so one each day and the first keynote is going to be Armin today Just right after this opening session And we also have a lot of trainings We have two rooms for the trainings. They are temp you one and temp you two and Yeah, we have a limited number of seats. So please go there as soon as you can Right, and then we have a whole set of other events waiting for you. So we have a lot of pie data sessions scheduled We have a recruitment session on Tuesday So in case you're looking for a new job a Python job then please go to the recruiting session And you have companies there Who are looking for people like you and they would love to talk to you We also have a poster session You can find that in the in the sponsor room in the large one. We have open space So if you want to run a talk that's not scheduled then you can just go to the open space whiteboard and put up a Post it and suggest a talk and then just take that slot and do whatever you like with that slot We also have a number of help desks help desk is something like word Basically says you can you get help from experts experts are usually people who run certain like open source Projects and then you can just go there and they will help you directly with your problems And of course we have the sprints after the conference But we're going to talk about that about that later So Back to the open spaces. So they all self-organized it Low of two feet you can fight this on Wikipedia We will have a shadow available near the conference desk There will be a big whiteboard for this and we have several rooms all around the van and of course we have the lightning talks Lightning talks if you don't know our very short talks five minute talks You sign up on the flip board a flip chart that we are going to put downstairs next to the conference display It's first come first serve So if we when we set up the board you have to go there quite quickly to reserve your spot And then you put up the title the name of what your name And then we're going to use that to call you up when the lightning talk Session starts and you can do pretty much anything in the lightning talk session. It's just five minutes. It's usually it's good if it's funny It's It should be helpful. It should be informative. You should not use it for presenting your company Okay, it's social event. We will have a social event this Thursday It will be around seven The place will be the coconuts. It's a club near the beach You can buy the ticket online and you can get the ticket at the registration desk We have something new this year. It's called a quiet room So if you want to just chill out a bit and maybe not use your computer for a short while Then you can go to the quiet room. It's upstairs on the first floor in the room Ponte. It's called and you can go there Just to relax. It's going to be there. There's some rules set up in that room You can have a look at those so basically it just means that you shouldn't you shouldn't really talk You shouldn't discuss anything just sit there and maybe work or relax restore energy conference up you can find program on the conference up you can find the application on the Apple market and on the also for the Android phones It's not connected with the website. So you cannot have the same account You will find the maps the programs as I said and also a lot of useful information so yesterday we already had the beginners workshop, which was very very popular and the mentors there they They want to basically share this idea of helping other people and make it possible for all the attendees to basically Say okay, I can help others who may may have a question So what they did is they created these stickers as you can see here You can get those stickers dancers at the conference desk And if you wear the sticker basically says that you're open to accept any questions from anyone And then if you want help from someone you can just approach these people and just ask them questions So I think it's a very nice idea volunteers yellow t-shirt So, yeah, we are here to help you can find volunteers inside the rooms close to the registration desk and Please we need help for a lot of stuff so join the volunteers and With this light I'd also like to thank all the volunteers that have helped yesterday set up the conference We had quite a few people and it was really really nice to see that people were open to help And I think they need a big big hand from you Right, then we we have a code of conduct. It's essentially it's be nice to each other and be professional And please don't spam This applies to everything that we do at the conference including all the social channels So all the communication that happens at the conference and related to the conference is on this code of conduct If you have any problems that you see or you you don't feel well in your in your setting or something happened That you want to talk about then you should contact our coc team, which is These two fine ladies including myself So just Just so you get some faces Okay speakers, so please contact the Session chair of your room and of your session. Please be there on time Please also try your notebook with with our system with the system of the venue I'm sorry if you have the new Mac book probably it will not work We will try to add in or resolve this problem. We also have some new adapters for this, but At least for now, we are not very lucky so Make sure to be there at least 10 minutes before the beginning of your session and after the talk remember to leave the adapters there and Also, please If you can upload your slides on the website All right. We're almost done There's one more thing that we have to say that it's not allowed to have food or drinks in the session rooms Accept your bottles you so you can take your bottles into the rooms and then have like drink water We'd appreciate if you follow this because it just keeps the rooms clean and we don't have that much issues with the venue then so There's nothing much left to say just accept maybe enjoy the conference and