In the US its usually just US, for EU its no guarantee you will be in shengen area all the time, if it was I dont think it would be any different from US, so visa every visit.
I think PyCon US seems more central for an LS imo for the reasons I thought it was for, recently the goal shifted so its not one I really feel if I missed it would be dreadful in terms of consensus for things.
Of course there’s the valid point of many core devs in Europe to justify the rotation.
I think 70% folks can make it whether in US/Europe which like all things its impossible to optimize for every case.
Also I think if you came to PyCon US you can hit many birds with one stone in one place historically, which is a personal observation obviously.
We discussed this at the core sprint in Cambridge and people were generally in favour of alternating, although we thought it a good idea to open a poll to gather wider consensus from the core team.
And we felt the poll should be opened by the steering council rather than, say, me, so I opened python/steering-council#309 to ask the SC to open a poll. I hope they can do so before the SC elections
We’re nearly there with the venue selection process, and things are coming together well thanks to our venue selection workgroup. From the range of possible venues, we already know that:
Dates: will fall between late June and early August
Location: will be within the Schengen area
We’re hoping to have everything finalized and to share the news with you early in the new year.
Also, this is our website for 2026: https://ep2026.europython.eu/
