The Devcon VI Manual | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Welcome to Devcon!

That is your Devcon VI Guide, and it consists of all the things it’s essential to learn 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 knowledge associated to pre-registration dates, group efforts at Devcon VI, facet/after occasions, and extra!

Bookmark this tab in the event you’re heading to Devcon, and we are able to’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 unfavourable check result’s wanted for entry.

Please inform your self here, or use your house nation’s embassy web page as necessities would possibly 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 often 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 simple to e book 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 need to fill out the ‘Check-Mig’ form, accessible on the Migración Colombia web site. You’ll obtain a affirmation e-mail to current upon arrival in Colombia.

Security 👷‍♀️

A neighborhood expression in Bogotá is: “No dar papaya” = “Do not give papaya (to thieves)”. It primarily means, don’t make your self an apparent goal: use frequent 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 gadgets 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 mandatory
It’s a giant metropolis, so go away these valuables (passport, extra money/playing cards) at your lodge
Use Uber or DiDi, the place a 20-min journey prices round $3 USD. Keep away from hailing avenue taxis in favor of one thing with a popularity/ranking 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” (beneficial when coming from the Airport)
Attempt to not stroll dwelling alone at evening (Reminder: Trip 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. Nonetheless, 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 instances between potential-stays and the convention middle

Web3 Journey reserving 🏨

When you haven’t booked your keep but, try one of many group initiatives round Devcon: Windingtree is a platform the place you’ll be able to e book inns 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). Preserve an adapter with you, if wanted!

Foreign money alternate 💶

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

You’ll be able to test alternate charges here.

Translation apps 📱

We suggest Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.

II. Transit 🚙

Most attendees will probably 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 simple methods to achieve the Agora Bogotá Conference Heart, the place Devcon will happen.

We suggest 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. When you order an Uber Consolation, it can decide you up on the second flooring ‘Arrivals’ degree of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.

There will probably be a Devcon logistics workforce 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 (in the event 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 gadget or print it prematurely.
Wristbands are required for entry and should be picked up at registration. Don’t lose your wristband — it is not going to get replaced.
Swag will probably 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 sure that you’ve got 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: Ensure that to have some cellular 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 could have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this yr! Nonetheless as all the time, offering good Wi-Fi for hundreds of individuals is difficult. Please be respectful and comply with the Wi-Fi tips 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 Heart 🙏

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 various distinctive actions and areas for everybody to sit up for each inside and outdoors 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 exterior house on the first flooring.

Music Stage 🎸 & Chiva Lounge 🪩

Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other group initiative – is awaiting you. There will probably be a program with breaks every single 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 will probably be gentle jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you’ll be able to 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 spring to mind in Latin America’s id. Coding, hacking, and expertise at giant have turn out to be 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 reveals the work of digital & digital Latin artists who implement blockchain to boost the impression of their artwork whereas taking a essential imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally in search of revolutionary 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 dwell performances and interactive installations.

Hacker Basement 🕵️‍♀️

The hacker basement will probably be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the proper 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 things a hacker wants will probably be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, in fact, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the proper temper to construct!

Guide a gathering room 👥

Assembly rooms of assorted sizes will probably be accessible within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re positioned on the fifth flooring and will probably be reservable on a first-come-first-serve foundation at first of every day.

“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝

For the primary time in Devcon historical past, we’re protecting 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, dwell music, recreation nights, a Completely satisfied Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!

Focus on and recommend group actions on the Froum.

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

This yr, we need to foster collaboration, networking, alternate, creativity, creation, experimentation and rest by 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, talk about and show content material of their selection, we pave the best way for a extra decentralized Devcon.

There will probably be six totally different hubs, all specializing in vital and related matters 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
Ladies Leaders in Web3
Zero Information Group

Treasure Hunt 🏆

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

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

Superior and/or aggressive gamers should keep forward of the time curve in an effort to win. Lots 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 group initiative, “Local weather Pleasant Devcon VI Dapp” allows you to 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.

You might 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 undertaking to retire carbon credit from. Might 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 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 most effective 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 individuals will be capable to unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that will probably be air-dropped among the many ones who achieved the three spots.
Folks can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be a part of the mission to turn out to be a avenue artwork hunter by 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 supply unique “permissionless perks” to Devcon attendees with out your pockets handle being made public. You may also mint a memento NFT!
For extra info 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 giant budgets which might be in a position to 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 consumer groups, many teams working to enhance Ethereum’s infrastructure, public items efforts, rollup initiatives, and chosen different high-impact initiatives.

You’ll find the Influence Cubicles within the foyer on the third flooring.

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 will probably be taking part on this effort too!

Our workforce 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 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 Net 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 Net App) goes dwell at app.devcon.org. Be sure you set up the PWA in your cellphone and create an account to ensure you have the freshest info and a customized agenda you can share with your pals and colleagues.

The passport will be signed in by way of e-mail or you’ll be able to merely Sign up along with your web3 pockets. Add your favourite audio system to your listing 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 seek out particular rooms and activations and way 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 expertise.

Web3 video internet hosting

The Devcon video archive will probably 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?

When you want a hand with discovering a room (or anything 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 workforce has put collectively a Metropolis Information on a whole lot 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 count on many group occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be taking place round Devcon. A giant because of the superb group for placing a lot devoted work into organizing facet occasions! Take a look at the Colombia Blockchain Week schedule for a schedule!

Co-Work House After Devcon 💻

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

The venue will probably 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 ideal excuse to increase your journey or journey is to unite with the Ethereum Medellin group for per 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 will probably be going down in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum group, and there simply is perhaps a gaggle surf journey afterwards for the extra adventurous of the group!
ETHPanama 🇵🇦 — Oct 26-28