Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Guide, and it contains every thing it’s essential 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 data associated to pre-registration dates, neighborhood efforts at Devcon VI, aspect/after occasions, and extra!
Bookmark this tab should 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 adverse check result’s wanted for entry.
Please inform your self here, or use your own home nation’s embassy web page as necessities may change. Additionally, bear in mind that your airline or transit firm might need extra necessities.
Getting into the nation 🇨🇴
Return flight
You’ll want to point out a ticket in your returning flights to enter Colombia. They generally ask for it, and typically they don’t, however play it protected and ebook your journeys accordingly.
Professional tip: Some journey websites like Priceline make it straightforward to ebook a flight after which cancel inside 24 hours for a full refund, in case plans change.
Test-Mig
Between 24 hours and 1 hour earlier than departure, you will need to 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 👷♀️
An area 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 widespread sense whereas in Bogotá. Meaning:
- Look the place you’re going, being conscious of the world round you fairly than getting misplaced in your cellphone’s display.
- 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 essential
- It’s a giant metropolis, so depart 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 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: possibly pay the additional greenback for a nicer “Uber Consolation” (really helpful when coming from the Airport)
- Strive to not stroll house 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. Nevertheless, you shouldn’t neglect your jackets and raincoats, as rain showers occur!
The place to remain in Bogotá? 🏠
We’ve got 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 test journey occasions between potential-stays and the convention middle
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
If you happen to 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 ebook 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, shops and sockets are Kind A (two pins) and Kind B (three pins). Hold an adapter with you, if wanted!
Forex alternate 💶
The foreign money is the Colombian Peso (COP). You possibly can alternate money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.
You possibly can test alternate charges here.
Translation apps 📱
We suggest Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees might be touchdown quickly, and we need to just remember to’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 a number of straightforward methods to succeed in the Agora Bogotá Conference Middle, 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. If you happen to order an Uber Consolation, it’ll decide you up on the second flooring ‘Arrivals’ degree of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There might 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’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 (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 should 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 be certain 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: Make certain 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 may have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this yr! Nevertheless as at all times, offering excellent Wi-Fi for 1000’s of individuals is difficult. Please be respectful and observe the Wi-Fi pointers offered 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 totally geared up venue, just some minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.
We’ve got quite a lot of distinctive actions and areas for everybody to look ahead to 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 outdoors house on the first flooring.
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 daily 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 gentle jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you’ll be able to anticipate some predominant 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 identification. 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 reveals the work of digital & digital Latin artists who implement blockchain to reinforce the impression of their artwork whereas taking a crucial imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally in search of progressive options to get well & 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 stay performances and interactive installations.
Hacker Basement 🕵️♀️
The hacker basement might be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the proper circumstances for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to study, or to hack on new concepts in a bunch.
All the pieces 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 proper temper to construct!
E-book a gathering room 👥
Assembly rooms of varied sizes might be accessible within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re positioned on the fifth flooring and might 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 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 offer an area for continued collaboration, stay music, sport nights, a Completely happy Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Talk about and counsel neighborhood actions on the Froum.
Yow 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 objects might be added over time!
This yr, we need to foster collaboration, networking, alternate, creativity, creation, experimentation and leisure via varied areas devoted particularly to that.
Group 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 best way for a extra decentralized Devcon.
There might be six completely different hubs, all specializing in necessary 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
- Non permanent Nameless Zone
- Ladies 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 have interaction with a browser-based cellular pockets dapp, which is able to maintain observe of all gamers’ progress on-chain.
To play, you will need to discover clue #0 within the devcon venue. Gentle 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 with the intention to win. Tons of of ETH is hidden all through the sport, proper there for the taking up 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” allows you to compensate in 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.
You could instantly mint a particular POAP for taking part within the Devcon neighborhood offset.
After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally permits you to vote on which nature conservation undertaking to retire carbon credit from. May 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 neighborhood 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 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.
Folks can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be a part of the mission to turn out to be 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 deal with being made public. It’s also possible to 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 accessible to groups with massive budgets which can 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 embody shopper groups, many teams working to enhance Ethereum’s infrastructure, public items efforts, rollup tasks, and chosen different high-impact tasks.
You can see 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 might be taking part on this effort too!
Our workforce owes a large 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 are going to attempt to at all times 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 info associated to all issues Devcon expertise. As well as the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Net App) goes stay at app.devcon.org. Make sure to set up the PWA in your cellphone 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 could be signed in through electronic mail or you’ll be able to merely Register along with your web3 pockets. Add your favourite audio system to your checklist 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 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 information storage and distribution know-how.
Web3 video internet hosting
The Devcon video archive might 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’ll be able to 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 a whole lot of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Check it out here
The information covers every thing 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 possibly can anticipate many neighborhood occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be taking place round Devcon. A giant because of the wonderful neighborhood 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 make amends for work after the push 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 accessible.
ETH Medellin & ETH Panama ♦️
A bus-ride or brief 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 neighborhood for every 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 might be happening in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum neighborhood, and there simply may 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.
It’s also possible to contact emergency@devcon.org.
Code of Conduct 👔
Please keep in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is on the market here.
For any questions concerning the Code of Conduct, or to make a report/file a grievance, contact a workers member or a volunteer.
Keep updated with the most recent information! 🗞
Comply with Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon
Be part of our official Telegram community for questions and aspect 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 🦄