Dear fellow Jovyans,

It is with great pleasure that we are opening the Call For Proposals (CFP) for JupyterCon 2018!

Last August, Project Jupyter, the NumFOCUS Foundation, and O’Reilly Media came together to host our first JupyterCon. We attracted over 700 attendees and 23 scholarship recipients for 4 days of talks and tutorials. There were 5 parallel session tracks featuring 55 talks, 11 keynotes, 55 talks, 8 tutorials, and 2 training courses. In addition, the conference poster session featured 33 posters and fostered great discussions within the community. Our Community Day, held at at the end of the conference featured free registration was open to the general public. Videos of the event have been made available on Safari Online and YouTube.

JupyterCon 2018, CFP Open

JupyterCon 2017 was a huge success and we’ve been working hard since then to make JupyterCon 2018 even better. It will be held in New York City in August from Tuesday the 21st to Friday the 24th. We’ll also host an open Community Day on August 25th, which will be open to everyone.

Today we are happy to open the conference website and open the Call For Proposal with submissions due by early March. A couple of changes have been made to the CFP since last year. In particular if your talk is not accepted, you can ask us to automatically consider the proposal for the poster session.

We encourage you to submit a proposal, and reach out to us if you have any questions. We’ll do our best to help you and and give you feedback on your proposal.

Like last year, we will have diversity and student scholarships available; further information will be provided on the website. We also encourage you to follow the JupyterCon Twitter account for announcements or corrections.

Community Day

The final day of JupyterCon 2017 was a blast with a large number of people making their first contribution to the Jupyter codebase, to the documentation, editing the wiki, or deploying it in the cloud. During the conference days, a separate room was also reserved for user testing of different Jupyter software, which proved to be fantastic source of feedback for User Experience (UX) and driving various Jupyter Tools forward.

We are happy to offer this “Community Day” experience again. At JupyterCon 2017, the Saturday was branded “Sprints” with the connotation of a code-centric experience. While we’re happy to see users coming to “Sprint” on code, we want to let you know that the Community Day will be open to anyone. Whether you are a teacher, coder, researcher, or user of Jupyter, the Community Day will have something for you. The Community Day is not limited to attendees of the main JupyterCon event, and it’s intended to be a “grass-roots” celebration of Jupyter and its community. We hope to see you at JupyterCon 2018.

Thanks

JupyterCon 2018 would not be possible without O’Reilly Media, NumFocus, as well as our sponsors.