JupyterCon 2020 is a go!
UPDATE: Please read the announcement (June 29, 2020) on JupyterCon Online: “JupyterCon: more than a conference.”
Just over a year ago, Project Jupyter announced it was reevaluating its annual community conference. An advisory committee of volunteers recommended a JupyterCon 2020 emphasizing a focus on access and leadership. We are now thrilled to announce a global Jupyter conference:
JupyterCon 2020 will be held August 10–14 in the historic city of Berlin, Germany.
The call for proposals (tutorials, talks, sprints) will open soon. In the meantime, we invite you to sign up as a proposal reviewer now.
Interested in sponsoring JupyterCon? Email us at jupytercon-sponsor@numfocus.org to receive a prospectus.
What is JupyterCon? Why do we do this?
Open-source software projects are fueled by the labor of many people — most of them volunteers — who often interact only online for years. It’s amazing the value we create together, coordinating our work in a distributed fashion. Even if we spend most of our time interacting through digital mediums, we see their limits and come in person to overcome them. In the community conference, we confirm in-person our virtual social links and our common ethical and professional aims.
In JupyterCon, we celebrate the distributed nature of our community, face-to-face. We enhance the year-long remote collaborations with in-person interactions for just a few days. This helps sustain a community, building and strengthening relationships among Jupyter aficionados and developers, newbies and veterans. JupyerCon inspires keen appreciation for the collective labor that creates high-quality technology for anyone in the world to use freely.
We come together to share, hack, eat, play, bond, and imbue with meaning our work, whether paid or volunteer. JupyterCon is a place where we feel free to express our intellectual aspirations, doubts, and pleasures. For the conference to unify us and develop our group solidarity, we welcome and include everyone. JupyterCon 2020 makes a strong public commitment to diversity and inclusion, with a rich program of actions to support it.
Message from the JupyterCon Diversity Chair:
I’m excited to join the JupyterCon 2020 leadership as Diversity Chair. My goals are two-fold: to drive the conference’s diversity and inclusion actions; and to move the needle on long-term diversity achievement so this position is redundant in the future. An inclusive environment at JupyterCon is a common resource. It is like air and water. By using Jupyter, within its extensive ecosystem, we are all participants and contributors and have the potential to positively impact our environment, both within the conference and the greater community.
I invite you to share any thoughts, concerns, or suggestions related to diversity by writing to jupytercon-diversity@numfocus.org.
— Reshama Shaikh, Diversity Chair
The JupyterCon program—with tutorials, talks, social events, and more—will be full of opportunities for participants to share knowledge with each other and to gain professional skills. Save the date and look out for coming announcements!
We want to thank the fabulous team of volunteers that is planning JupyterCon (listed below), as well as the many community members who participated on the JupyterCon advisory committee last year (co-chaired by Safia Abdalla, Paige Bailey, and Doug Blank), and the Jupyter Events working group (Lorena Barba, Sylvain Corlay, Brian Granger, Jason Grout, Ana Ruvalcaba).
Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
— Lorena A Barba, JupyterCon 2020 General Chair
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JupyterCon 2020 Venue and dates
Berlin Conference Center, 10–13 August 2020
(sprints on Aug. 14, venue to be announced)
JupyterCon 2020 Committee
- Lorena A. Barba, General Chair
- Sylvain Corlay, Vice Chair
- Jason Grout, Technical Program Chair
- Reshama Shaikh, Diversity Chair
- Paco Nathan, Sponsorships Chair
- Rosie Pongracz, Finance Chair
- Paige Bailey, Communications/Marketing Chair
- Joshua Patterson, Exhibits Chair
- Tania Allard and Gerard Gorman, Tutorials Chair
- Safia Abdalla and Kirstie Whitaker, Sprints Co-Chairs
- Jeremy Tuloup, Local Organizing Committee Chair
- Wolf Vollprecht, Local Sponsorships Liaison
- Laura Norén, Eco-friendly Event Chair
- Amanda Casari, Speaker Management
- Jim Weiss (NumFOCUS), Logistics Chair
- Carol Willing, Special Advisor to the General Chair
JupyterCon 2020 is an event brought to you in partnership by Project Jupyter and NumFOCUS.
