The Devcon VI Manual | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Welcome to Devcon!

That is your Devcon VI Handbook, and it contains all the things you must find out about Devcon, the environment and extra. Learn carefully as we cowl issues to concentrate on earlier than departure, throughout transit to the venue from Bogotá’s worldwide airport El Dorado, and data associated to pre-registration dates, neighborhood efforts at Devcon VI, facet/after occasions, and extra!

Bookmark this tab for those who’re heading to Devcon, and we will’t wait to see you all quickly.

I. Arriving in Bogotá 🛬

To kick issues off, let’s begin with the primary steps when arriving in Bogotá.

Covid necessities 😷

Vaccination or a detrimental take a look at result’s wanted for entry.

Please inform your self here, or use your property nation’s embassy web page as necessities would possibly change. Additionally, bear in mind that your airline or transit firm might need further necessities.

Getting into the nation 🇨🇴

Return flight

You’ll want to point out a ticket to your returning flights to enter Colombia. They generally ask for it, and typically they don’t, however play it protected and e book your journeys accordingly.

Professional tip: Some journey websites like Priceline make it straightforward to e book a flight after which cancel inside 24 hours for a full refund, in case plans change.

Examine-Mig

Between 24 hours and 1 hour earlier than departure, you have to fill out the ‘Check-Mig’ form, obtainable on the Migración Colombia web site. You’ll obtain a affirmation e mail to current upon arrival in Colombia.

Security 👷‍♀️

An area expression in Bogotá is: “No dar papaya” = “Do not give papaya (to thieves)”. It basically means, don’t make your self an apparent goal: use widespread sense whereas in Bogotá. Which means:

• Look the place you’re going, being conscious of the world round you moderately than getting misplaced in your telephone’s display screen.
• Don’t put on flashy objects like costly watches, or these gold-plated {hardware} wallets and loudly branded crypto-swag
• Don’t stroll round together with your telephone out or together with your laptop computer when not needed
• It’s a giant metropolis, so go away these valuables (passport, extra money/playing cards) at your resort
• Use Uber or DiDi, the place a 20-min journey prices round $3 USD. Keep away from hailing road taxis in favor of one thing with a fame/ranking system, an match these plates to what you see within the app, as all the time.
• Tip: possibly pay the additional greenback for a nicer “Uber Consolation” (really helpful when coming from the Airport)
• Strive to not stroll house alone at night time (Reminder: Experience Sharing is simple & low cost)

Climate ☀️

At an altitude of two,600m, the temperature in Bogotá hovers between 9° – 18° C (or 48° – 65° F) with out an excessive amount of wind. Nevertheless, you shouldn’t overlook your jackets and raincoats, as rain showers occur!

The place to remain in Bogotá? 🏠

Now we have some suggestions on areas near the venue in our Bogotá City Guide. Chapinero, Parkway / La Soledad, and La Candelaria are good areas, however all the time test journey occasions between potential-stays and the convention heart

Web3 Journey reserving 🏨

Should you haven’t booked your keep but, take a look at one of many neighborhood initiatives round Devcon: Windingtree is a platform the place you’ll be able to e book lodges in Bogotá with stablecoins.

To get your first web3 journey expertise, please read their guide or ask any query on the Windingtree Discord:discord.gg/MTYEm2BfWS.

Electrical energy 🔌

In Colombia, retailers and sockets are Kind A (two pins) and Kind B (three pins). Maintain an adapter with you, if wanted!

Forex trade 💶

The foreign money is the Colombian Peso (COP). You’ll be able to trade money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.

You’ll be able to test trade charges here.

Translation apps 📱

We advocate Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.

II. Transit 🚙

Most attendees might be touchdown quickly, and we need to just be sure you’re in a position to simply navigate towards the Devcon venue.

Nearly all of of us will arrive at Bogotá’s airport, El Dorado Worldwide Airport (BOG). From there, there are just a few straightforward methods to achieve the Agora Bogotá Conference Middle, the place Devcon will happen.

We advocate utilizing Uber and ordering an “Uber Consolation” or cabify from the airport to the place the place you’ll keep. Ubers are low cost and the most secure type of transit. Should you order an Uber Consolation, it should choose you up on the second ground ‘Arrivals’ degree of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.

There might be a Devcon logistics group on the airport to assist information you starting on October eighth. It is possible for you to to acknowledge them by their clothes (which we’ll share extra quickly).

III. Devcon Registration 📝

a. Pre-Registration 🧾

Optionally, skip the road on Day-1 by registering beforehand, and obtain your wristband, SIM card (for those who want one), and POAP earlier than issues even kick-off!!

Pre-registration dates and locations are:

Saturday, October eighth

— Hilton Bogotá Corferias: 12pm – 5pm

Sunday, October ninth

— Hilton Bogotá Corferias: 9am – 5pm

— Hyatt Place Bogotá: 9am – 5pm

Monday, October tenth

— Hilton Bogotá Corferias: 8am – 5pm

— Hyatt Place Bogotá: 8am – 5pm

— Schelling Level @ Gran Carpa Américas Corferias: 8:30am – 5pm

— ETHLatam @ Ágora Bogotá: 8am – 9pm

b. DOORS OPEN: On-site Registration 🥳

DOORS: October eleventh @ 8:00AM**

OPENING CEREMONY: October eleventh @ 9:30AM

PROGRAMMING: Every day at 10:00AM

DEVCON VENUE: Agora Bogotá Convention Center

Registration “Must Know”

• Earlier than you arrive, you MUST redeem your code for a ticket QR and obtain the PDF to your gadget or print it prematurely.
• Wristbands are required for entry and have to be picked up at registration. Don’t lose your wristband — it won’t get replaced.
• Swag might be distributed contained in the venue throughout Devcon. Paid add-on Sweatshirts can be picked up then.
• For all on-chain public sale and raffle ticketeers, please make sure that you have redeemed your tickets.

c. Web and SIM Playing cards 💻

We are going to present free SIM playing cards for all attendees, first-come-first-serve! They are going to be legitimate for 15 days or 20 GB, whichever comes first.

You’ll obtain the sim playing cards at registration and pre-registration.

TIP: Be certain that to have some cell knowledge obtainable for when arriving on the airport, to get an Uber to your lodging. Bogotá airport wifi is free for half-hour.

Wi-Fi Information 📶

We may have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this yr! Nevertheless as all the time, offering excellent Wi-Fi for hundreds of individuals is hard. Please be respectful and comply with the Wi-Fi pointers supplied within the Code of Conduct.

Wi-Fi title: DevconBogota

Wi-Fi password: runafullnode

IV. Venue and Experiences 🏢

a. Welcome to the Agora Bogotá Conference Middle 🙏

The Agora is a contemporary and absolutely outfitted venue, just some minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.

Now we have quite a few distinctive actions and areas for everybody to sit up for each inside and out of doors the principle venue, together with a packed schedule on phases of all sizes, all kinds of meals choices, and different experiences.

Let’s begin with these experiences!

POAP 🏆

Snag your collectible ERC-721 token at registration to show your attendance at Devcon!

Colombian Chiva 🚌

All of the Ethereum communities in LATAM are united to share how Ethereum has been impacting communities round Latin America. The ETH LATAM and ETH Colombia communities will create a vibrant house with their Colombian “Chiva” bus. You’ll find the colourful truck parked within the Devcon venue, within the outdoors house on the first ground.

Music Stage 🎸 & Chiva Lounge 🪩

Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other neighborhood initiative – is awaiting you. There might be a program with breaks day-after-day from 11AM to 9PM.

Discover this system, introductions to all artists, and more details about the Chiva Lounge here.

In the course of the day there might be tender jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you’ll be able to anticipate some essential acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the moderately cool nights of Bogotá.

Artwork at Devcon 🎨

Rituals, shamanism, magic, and thriller come to mind in Latin America’s id. Coding, hacking, and know-how at massive have turn out to be instruments for brand new generations to decode and recreate Latin America’s digital narrative.

“RITUALES – Latinamerica decoded” is an NFT exhibition at Devcon that exhibits the work of digital & digital Latin artists who implement blockchain to boost the affect of their artwork whereas taking a crucial imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally searching for progressive options to get better & re-scale our relationship with nature and the cosmos.

We invite you to go to the _Hacker Basement_ to observe the work of 13 chosen artists in addition to reside performances and interactive installations.

Hacker Basement 🕵️‍♀️

The hacker basement might be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the appropriate circumstances for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to study, or to hack on new concepts in a bunch.

Every part a hacker wants might be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, in fact, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the appropriate temper to construct!

Guide a gathering room 👥

Assembly rooms of assorted sizes might be obtainable within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re positioned on the fifth ground and might be reservable on a first-come-first-serve foundation initially of every day.

“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝

For the primary time in Devcon historical past, we’re holding the venue open late. As an alternative of ushering all attendees out of the constructing at 5PM sharp, we’re leaving the venue open till 11PM to supply an area for continued collaboration, reside music, recreation nights, a Blissful Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!

Talk about and counsel neighborhood actions on the Froum.

You’ll find an summary of Devcon After Darkish actions here. Keep in mind that this program continues to be a Work-in-Progress and extra objects might be added over time!

This yr, we need to foster collaboration, networking, trade, creativity, creation, experimentation and rest by way of varied areas devoted particularly to that.

Neighborhood Hubs are a reserved house on the Devcon venue powered by the neighborhood for the neighborhood. By enabling a handful of communities to create, focus on and show content material of their alternative, we pave the way in which for a extra decentralized Devcon.

There might be six completely different hubs, all specializing in essential and related matters with their very own curated program, thrilling issues to study and to expertise. You’ll find the Neighborhood Hubs space on Ground 1!

Meet this yr’s Neighborhood Hubs:

• Crypto Economics & Governance Hub
• Design Neighborhood Hub
• ReGen Hub
• Non permanent Nameless Zone
• Girls Leaders in Web3
• Zero Information Neighborhood

Treasure Hunt 🏆

“No Time to DAI” is a story-based treasure hunt problem distributed by way of Devcon (and past) in Bogota. Gamers can interact with a browser-based cell pockets dapp, which can preserve observe of all gamers’ progress on-chain.

To play, you have to discover clue #0 within the devcon venue. Mild role-playing is inspired, curiosity and a spotlight to element is required, and a few crypto information is useful.

Superior and/or aggressive gamers should keep forward of the time curve so as to win. Tons of of ETH is hidden all through the sport, proper there for the taking over Görl testnet! Görli ETH required to play.

Gamers can ask for assist/hints within the Discord: https://discord.gg/4PVZzNdsnW

Carbon Offsetting for Devcon VI 🌳

The neighborhood initiative, “Local weather Pleasant Devcon VI Dapp” lets you compensate to your carbon dioxide emissions created by attending Devcon.

Upon coming into a departure airport the dapp calculates your flight emissions and provides it to the estimated occasion emission per individual. All transactions happen totally on-chain.

It’s possible you’ll instantly mint a particular POAP for collaborating within the Devcon neighborhood offset.

After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally permits you to vote on which nature conservation challenge to retire carbon credit from. May or not it’s the Indigneous Reservation of the Matavén Forest in Colombia…?

You’ll be able to offset your flight and get the POAP here!

This work has resulted from over 2 years of neighborhood dialogue and implementation of DIP-17 which was primarily based on DIP-1 and DIP-12.

For more information, see the FAQ here.

Cryptomurals 🖼

CRYPTOMURALS goals to protect the cultural heritage of the most effective road artwork worldwide.

For the primary time, CM is internet hosting the “road artwork hunt” throughout Devcon Bogotá in partnership with DoinGud. They’re internet hosting graffiti excursions in downtown Bogotá through the 4 days of Devcon, the place individuals will have the ability to unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that might be air-dropped among the many ones who achieved the three spots.
Individuals can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be part of the mission to turn out to be a road artwork hunter by way of the CM website.

Ticket attestations / Minting distinctive NFT 🎟

This yr, in collaboration with Smart Token Labs, attendees can now permissionlessly attest that they had been a Devcon VI ticket-holder.

Utilizing this attestation, third events can supply unique “permissionless perks” to Devcon attendees with out your pockets deal with being made public. You too can mint a memento NFT!
For extra info go to the Devcon website, take a look at the FAQ in addition to different details about Bogotá and the Devcon programming!

Affect Cubicles 🌤

In previous years, cubicles have solely been obtainable to groups with massive budgets which might be in a position to pay for sponsorship packages. This yr, we reserved cubicles for groups with excessive affect on the Ethereum ecosystem, no matter their budgets.

These groups embrace shopper groups, many teams working to enhance Ethereum’s infrastructure, public items efforts, rollup initiatives, and chosen different high-impact initiatives.

You’ll find the Affect Cubicles within the foyer on the third ground.

Public Good Supporters 🌻

We launched the Devcon Supporter Program in lieu of conventional sponsorships, and people groups who participated deserve particular thanks for his or her contributions to the ETHColombia Quadratic Funding Round @ Devcon, to Gitcoin, CLR.Fund’s open grants, and to the Protocol Guild (which supported core Ethereum analysis and growth). EF might be collaborating on this effort too!

Our group owes a huge THANK YOU to these groups and DAOs that joined our first-ever Supporter Program this yr with out most advantages anticipated by sponsors. Their assist of the Ethereum ecosystem got here with out issues like reserved seating, most branding, speaker slots, named occasion areas and different conventional sponsor-like advantages.

Meals 🥗

Anticipate the meals to be a mixture of very native conventional Colombian meals, and worldwide meals.

We are going to attempt to all the time have vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free meals, though sadly can’t accommodate all dietary restrictions.

V. Program & Agenda 📆

a. Devcon Internet Replace & Passport App Launch

For Devcon Bogota Occasion days http://devcon.org web site will get a whole re-lift so as to add info associated to all issues Devcon expertise. As well as the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Internet App) goes reside at app.devcon.org. You’ll want to set up the PWA in your telephone and create an account to ensure you have the freshest info and a customized agenda which you can share with your pals and colleagues.

The passport will be signed in through e mail or you’ll be able to merely Register together with your web3 pockets. Add your favourite audio system to your listing to see all of the classes they’re doing simply or just filter primarily based in your wants, and pursuits. Discover all the data associated to the venue map, the place to search out particular rooms and activations and rather more.

b. Web3 video archive and occasion agenda by Swarm community and Etherna

Web3 Devcon Agenda
Here you can find a web3 version of the Devcon Agenda hosted on the Swarm community, a decentralized knowledge storage and distribution know-how.

Web3 video internet hosting

The Devcon video archive might be obtainable on Etherna, a web3 decentralized video platform utilizing the Swarm network as storage, along with the present video internet hosting choices.

c. Cannot discover a room?

Should you want a hand with discovering a room (or the rest at Devcon), you’ll be able to all the time ask our volunteers (you’ll acknowledge them by their shirts).

d. Devcon Week

Don’t overlook that Devcon is greater than a 4-day convention, however a complete Devcon Week! That includes the ETH Bogotá hackathon, the DAOist, Schellingpoint and extra.

VI. Discover Bogotá 🌆

Excellent news! Our group has put collectively a Metropolis Information on a number of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Check it out here

The information covers all the things from methods to get round, to security, areas that you will need to see and/or keep round. See an included FAQ on vaccinations, meals, language and extra!

Devcon Aspect Occasions 👯

You’ll be able to anticipate many neighborhood occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be taking place round Devcon. An enormous because of the wonderful neighborhood for placing a lot devoted work into organizing facet occasions! Try the Colombia Blockchain Week schedule for a schedule!

Co-Work Area After Devcon 💻

In want of a spot to make amends for work after the frenzy of all 4 convention days?

The venue might be open for co-working on Saturday the fifteenth and Sunday the sixteenth October.

Entry is FREE for all who’ve a Devcon ticket, with snacks and house for collaboration obtainable.

ETH Medellin & ETH Panama ♦️

A bus-ride or quick flight away lies Medellin, Bogotá’s hotter and extra touristic neighbor. An ideal excuse to increase your journey or journey is to unite with the Ethereum Medellin neighborhood for per week of open co-working, night occasions, and varied conferences.
ETHMedellin 🇨🇴 — Oct 18-22
Only one week after ETHMedellin and an affordable one-hour flight, ETHPanama might be happening in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be a part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum neighborhood, and there simply could be a bunch surf journey afterwards for the extra adventurous of the group!
ETHPanama 🇵🇦 — Oct 26-28

VII. Different issues to know

Security first! 🛟

Emergency numbers

Nationwide emergency quantity (24-hour normal line): Tel: 123
Metropolitan Police: Tel: 112

We may have medical workers on the venue on-site in case of emergencies.
You too can contact emergency@devcon.org.

Code of Conduct 👔

Please bear in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is on the market here.

For any questions relating to the Code of Conduct, or to make a report/file a criticism, contact a workers member or a volunteer.

Keep updated with the most recent information! 🗞

Observe Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon

Be a part of our official Telegram community for questions and facet occasions.

That is it! Keep in mind to bookmark this web page for fast entry to all issues Devcon, and welcome to Bogotá!

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EF Devcon group 🦄