Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Handbook, and it consists of all the things it is advisable find out 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, facet/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 unfavourable 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 may change. Additionally, bear in mind that your airline or transit firm may need extra necessities.
Getting into the nation 🇨🇴
Return flight
You’ll want to indicate a ticket to your returning flights to enter Colombia. They often ask for it, and generally they don’t, however play it secure and guide your journeys accordingly.
Professional tip: Some journey websites like Priceline make it simple to guide 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, it’s essential 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. Meaning:
- Look the place you’re going, being conscious of the world round you quite 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 essential
- 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 trip 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 at all times.
- Tip: perhaps pay the additional greenback for a nicer “Uber Consolation” (really helpful when coming from the Airport)
- Attempt to not stroll house alone at evening (Reminder: Journey 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 neglect your jackets and raincoats, as rain showers occur!
The place to remain in Bogotá? 🏠
We have now some suggestions on areas near the venue in our Bogotá City Guide. Chapinero, Parkway / La Soledad, and La Candelaria are good areas, however at all times verify journey instances between potential-stays and the convention heart
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
In the event you haven’t booked your keep but, take a look at one of many group initiatives round Devcon: Windingtree is a platform the place you possibly can guide 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 Sort A (two pins) and Sort B (three pins). Hold an adapter with you, if wanted!
Foreign money change 💶
The foreign money is the Colombian Peso (COP). You’ll be able to change money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.
You’ll be able to verify change charges here.
Translation apps 📱
We advocate Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees can be touchdown quickly, and we wish to just remember to’re in a position to 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 a couple of simple methods to succeed in 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. In the event you order an Uber Consolation, it’s going to choose you up on the second flooring ‘Arrivals’ stage of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There can 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 (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 system or print it prematurely.
- Wristbands are required for entry and have to be picked up at registration. Don’t lose your wristband — it is not going to get replaced.
- Swag can be distributed contained in the venue throughout Devcon. Paid add-on Sweatshirts may also be picked up then.
- For all on-chain public sale and raffle ticketeers, please be sure 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: Ensure to have some cellular information accessible for when arriving on the airport, to get an Uber to your lodging. Bogotá airport wifi is free for half-hour.
Wi-Fi Data 📶
We could have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this 12 months! Nevertheless as at all times, offering good Wi-Fi for hundreds of individuals is hard. Please be respectful and observe 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 geared up venue, just some minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.
We have now a variety of 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 area with their Colombian “Chiva” bus. You will discover the colourful truck parked within the Devcon venue, within the exterior area on the first flooring.
Music Stage 🎸 & Chiva Lounge 🪩
Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other group initiative – is awaiting you. There can 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 can be tender jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you possibly can anticipate some essential acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the quite cool nights of Bogotá.
Artwork at Devcon 🎨
Rituals, shamanism, magic, and thriller come to mind in Latin America’s id. Coding, hacking, and expertise at giant 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 reinforce the affect of their artwork whereas taking a crucial imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally in search of progressive options to get better & re-scale our relationship with nature and the cosmos.
We invite you to go to the _Hacker Basement_ to look at the work of 13 chosen artists in addition to reside performances and interactive installations.
Hacker Basement 🕵️♀️
The hacker basement can 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 gaggle.
All the pieces a hacker wants can 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!
E-book a gathering room 👥
Assembly rooms of assorted sizes can be accessible within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re positioned on the fifth flooring and can 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 supply an area for continued collaboration, reside music, recreation nights, a Glad Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Talk about and counsel group actions on the Froum.
You will discover an outline of Devcon After Darkish actions here. Keep in mind that this program remains to be a Work-in-Progress and extra gadgets can be added over time!
This 12 months, we wish to foster collaboration, networking, change, creativity, creation, experimentation and leisure via varied areas devoted particularly to that.
Neighborhood Hubs are a reserved area 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 selection, we pave the way in which for a extra decentralized Devcon.
There can 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. You will discover the Neighborhood Hubs space on Flooring 1!
Meet this 12 months’s Neighborhood Hubs:
- Crypto Economics & Governance Hub
- Design Neighborhood Hub
- ReGen Hub
- Short-term Nameless Zone
- Girls Leaders in Web3
- Zero Information Neighborhood
Treasure Hunt 🏆
“No Time to DAI” is a story-based treasure hunt problem distributed via Devcon (and past) in Bogota. Gamers can have interaction with a browser-based cellular pockets dapp, which can preserve monitor of all gamers’ progress on-chain.
To play, it’s essential 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 data is useful.
Superior and/or aggressive gamers should keep forward of the time curve as a way to win. A whole bunch 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 fully on-chain.
You could instantly mint a particular POAP for taking part within the Devcon group offset.
After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally permits you to vote on which nature conservation mission to retire carbon credit from. May 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 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 individuals will have the ability to unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that can be air-dropped among the many ones who completed the three spots.
Folks can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be part of the mission to turn out to be a avenue artwork hunter via the CM website.
Ticket attestations / Minting distinctive NFT 🎟
This 12 months, 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 tackle being made public. It’s also possible to mint a memento NFT!
For extra data 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 accessible to groups with giant budgets which are in a position to pay for sponsorship packages. This 12 months, we reserved cubicles for groups with excessive affect 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 tasks, and chosen different high-impact tasks.
You’ll find the Affect 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 can 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 12 months 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 🥗
Anticipate the meals to be a mixture of very native conventional Colombian meals, and worldwide meals.
We’ll attempt to at all times have vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free meals, though sadly can not 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 an entire re-lift so as to add data associated to all issues Devcon expertise. As well as the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Internet App) goes reside at app.devcon.org. Make sure to set up the PWA in your cellphone and create an account to ensure you have the hottest data and a customized agenda which you can share with your mates and colleagues.
The passport could be signed in by way of e-mail or you possibly can merely Sign up along with your web3 pockets. Add your favourite audio system to your record to see all of the classes 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 information storage and distribution expertise.
Web3 video internet hosting
The Devcon video archive can 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?
In the event you want a hand with discovering a room (or anything at Devcon), you possibly can at all times ask our volunteers (you’ll acknowledge them by their shirts).
d. Devcon Week
Don’t neglect 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 workforce has put collectively a Metropolis Information on quite a 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’re going to wish to see and/or keep round. See an included FAQ on vaccinations, meals, language and extra!
Devcon Facet Occasions 👯
You’ll be able to anticipate many group occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be taking place round Devcon. A giant due to the wonderful group 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 push of all 4 convention days?
The venue can 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 area for collaboration accessible.
ETH Medellin & ETH Panama ♦️
A bus-ride or quick flight away lies Medellin, Bogotá’s hotter and extra touristic neighbor. A fantastic 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 varied conferences.
ETHMedellin 🇨🇴 — Oct 18-22
Only one week after ETHMedellin and an inexpensive one-hour flight, ETHPanama can be going down 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
VII. Different issues to know
Security first! 🛟
Emergency numbers
Nationwide emergency quantity (24-hour normal line): Tel: 123
Metropolitan Police: Tel: 112
We could have medical workers on the venue on-site in case of emergencies.
It’s also possible to contact [email protected].
Code of Conduct 👔
Please keep in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is accessible here.
For any questions concerning 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! Bear in mind to bookmark this web page for fast entry to all issues Devcon, and welcome to Bogotá!
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EF Devcon workforce 🦄