The Devcon VI Manual | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Welcome to Devcon!

That is your Devcon VI Handbook, and it contains all the things it is advisable learn about Devcon, the environment and extra. Learn carefully as we cowl issues to pay attention to earlier than departure, throughout transit to the venue from Bogotá’s worldwide airport El Dorado, and knowledge associated to pre-registration dates, group efforts at Devcon VI, aspect/after occasions, and extra!

Bookmark this tab should you’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 unfavorable check result’s wanted for entry.

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

Coming 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 guide your journeys accordingly.

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

Verify-Mig

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

Security 👷‍♀️

A neighborhood 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 fairly than getting misplaced in your cellphone’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 along with your cellphone out or along with your laptop computer when not crucial
It’s an enormous metropolis, so depart these valuables (passport, extra money/playing cards) at your resort
Use Uber or DiDi, the place a 20-min trip prices round $3 USD. Keep away from hailing avenue taxis in favor of one thing with a status/score system, an match these plates to what you see within the app, as all the time.
Tip: perhaps pay the additional greenback for a nicer “Uber Consolation” (really useful when coming from the Airport)
Attempt to not stroll house alone at night time (Reminder: Journey Sharing is straightforward & 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 examine journey occasions between potential-stays and the convention middle

Web3 Journey reserving 🏨

If you happen to haven’t booked your keep but, try one of many group initiatives round Devcon: Windingtree is a platform the place you may guide accommodations 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, shops and sockets are Sort A (two pins) and Sort B (three pins). Maintain an adapter with you, if wanted!

Foreign money change 💶

The foreign money is the Colombian Peso (COP). You possibly can change money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.

You possibly can examine change charges here.

Translation apps 📱

We advocate Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.

II. Transit 🚙

Most attendees shall be touchdown quickly, and we wish to just remember to’re capable of simply navigate towards the Devcon venue.

The vast majority of people 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. If you happen to order an Uber Consolation, it would decide you up on the second ground ‘Arrivals’ stage of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.

There shall 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 are going to 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 (should you 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 “Have to Know”

Earlier than you arrive, you MUST redeem your code for a ticket QR and obtain the PDF to your machine 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 shall be distributed contained in the venue throughout Devcon. Paid add-on Sweatshirts will also be picked up then.
For all on-chain public sale and raffle ticketeers, please be certain that you have redeemed your tickets.

c. Web and SIM Playing cards 💻

We’ll 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 sure to have some cell knowledge accessible 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 difficult. Please be respectful and observe the Wi-Fi tips supplied within the Code of Conduct.

Wi-Fi identify: DevconBogota

Wi-Fi password: runafullnode

IV. Venue and Experiences 🏢

a. Welcome to the Agora Bogotá Conference Middle 🙏

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

Now we have a lot of distinctive actions and areas for everybody to look ahead to each inside and out of doors the primary 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. Yow will discover 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 group initiative – is awaiting you. There shall 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.

Throughout the day there shall be gentle jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you may count on some fundamental acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the fairly 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 develop into instruments for brand spanking 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 reinforce the impression of their artwork whereas taking a vital imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally searching for progressive options to recuperate & 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 dwell performances and interactive installations.

Hacker Basement 🕵️‍♀️

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

All the pieces a hacker wants shall be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, after all, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the appropriate temper to construct!

Guide a gathering room 👥

Assembly rooms of varied sizes shall be accessible within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re positioned on the fifth ground and shall be reservable on a first-come-first-serve foundation in the beginning of every day.

“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝

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

Focus on and recommend group actions on the Froum.

Yow will discover an outline of Devcon After Darkish actions here. Keep in mind that this program continues to be a Work-in-Progress and extra objects shall be added over time!

This yr, we wish to foster collaboration, networking, change, creativity, creation, experimentation and leisure via numerous areas devoted particularly to that.

Group Hubs are a reserved house on the Devcon venue powered by the group for the group. 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 shall be six totally different hubs, all specializing in necessary and related subjects with their very own curated program, thrilling issues to study and to expertise. Yow will discover the Group Hubs space on Flooring 1!

Meet this yr’s Group Hubs:

Crypto Economics & Governance Hub
Design Group Hub
ReGen Hub
Short-term Nameless Zone
Girls Leaders in Web3
Zero Data Group

Treasure Hunt 🏆

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

To play, you should discover clue #0 within the devcon venue. Gentle role-playing is inspired, curiosity and a focus to element is required, and a few crypto data is useful.

Superior and/or aggressive gamers should keep forward of the time curve with a purpose to win. A whole lot 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 group 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 particular person. All transactions happen solely on-chain.

It’s possible you’ll instantly mint a particular POAP for taking part within the Devcon group offset.

After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally means that you can vote on which nature conservation challenge to retire carbon credit from. Might it’s the Indigneous Reservation of the Matavén Forest in Colombia…?

You possibly can offset your flight and get the POAP here!

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

For more information, see the FAQ here.

Cryptomurals 🖼

CRYPTOMURALS goals to protect the cultural heritage of the perfect avenue artwork worldwide.

For the primary time, CM is internet hosting the “avenue artwork hunt” throughout Devcon Bogotá in partnership with DoinGud. They’re internet hosting graffiti excursions in downtown Bogotá throughout the 4 days of Devcon, the place folks will be capable of unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that shall be air-dropped among the many ones who achieved the three spots.
Folks can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be part of the mission to develop into a avenue artwork hunter via the CM website.

Ticket attestations / Minting distinctive NFT 🎟

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

Utilizing this attestation, third events can provide unique “permissionless perks” to Devcon attendees with out your pockets handle being made public. You may as well mint a memento NFT!
For extra data go to the Devcon website, try the FAQ in addition to different details about Bogotá and the Devcon programming!

Influence Cubicles 🌤

In previous years, cubicles have solely been accessible to groups with massive budgets which can be capable of pay for sponsorship packages. This yr, we reserved cubicles for groups with excessive impression 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 can see the Influence 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 improvement). EF shall be taking part on this effort too!

Our group owes a massive THANK YOU to these groups and DAOs that joined our first-ever Supporter Program this yr with out most advantages anticipated by sponsors. Their help 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 🥗

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

We’ll 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 Net Replace & Passport App Launch

For Devcon Bogota Occasion days http://devcon.org web site will get an entire re-lift so as to add data associated to all issues Devcon expertise. As well as the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Net App) goes dwell at app.devcon.org. Make sure to set up the PWA in your cellphone and create an account to be sure to have the hottest data and a customized agenda which you can share with your folks and colleagues.

The passport might be signed in through electronic mail or you may merely Sign up along with your web3 pockets. Add your favourite audio system to your checklist to see all of the periods they’re doing simply or just filter based mostly in your wants, and pursuits. Discover all the data associated to the venue map, the place to search out particular rooms and activations and far 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 shall be accessible 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?

If you happen to want a hand with discovering a room (or the rest at Devcon), you may 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 an entire 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 lots 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 wish to see and/or keep round. See an included FAQ on vaccinations, meals, language and extra!

Devcon Aspect Occasions 👯

You possibly can count on many group occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be occurring round Devcon. A giant because of the superb group for placing a lot devoted work into organizing aspect occasions! Take a look at the Colombia Blockchain Week schedule for a schedule!

Co-Work House After Devcon 💻

In want of a spot to compensate for work after the push of all 4 convention days?

The venue shall 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 accessible.

ETH Medellin & ETH Panama ♦️

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