Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Handbook, and it consists of all the things you’ll want to learn about Devcon, the environment and extra. Learn intently 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, aspect/after occasions, and extra!
Bookmark this tab in case 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 damaging take a look at result’s wanted for entry.
Please inform your self here, or use your house nation’s embassy web page as necessities may change. Additionally, remember that your airline or transit firm may need further 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 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.
Test-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 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. Which means:
- Look the place you’re going, being conscious of the world round you reasonably than getting misplaced in your telephone’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 telephone out or along with your laptop computer when not essential
- It’s an enormous metropolis, so depart these valuables (passport, extra money/playing cards) at your lodge
- 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” (advisable 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 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 verify journey instances between potential-stays and the convention heart
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
In the event 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 guide 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, shops and sockets are Kind A (two pins) and Kind B (three pins). Hold an adapter with you, if wanted!
Foreign money alternate 💶
The foreign money is the Colombian Peso (COP). You possibly can alternate money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.
You possibly can verify alternate charges here.
Translation apps 📱
We suggest Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees will likely be touchdown quickly, and we wish to just remember to’re capable of simply navigate towards the Devcon venue.
Nearly all of people will arrive at Bogotá’s airport, El Dorado Worldwide Airport (BOG). From there, there are a number of 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. In the event you order an Uber Consolation, it is going to choose you up on the second ground ‘Arrivals’ degree of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There will likely 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 case 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 “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 upfront.
- 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 likely 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’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 certain 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 at all times, offering excellent Wi-Fi for 1000’s of individuals is difficult. Please be respectful and observe 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 geared up venue, only a few minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.
We’ve got numerous distinctive actions and areas for everybody to sit up for each inside and out of doors the primary venue, together with a packed schedule on levels 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 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 will likely be a program with breaks day by day from 11AM to 9PM.
Discover this system, introductions to all artists, and more details about the Chiva Lounge here.
Throughout the day there will likely be gentle jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you’ll be able to count on some primary acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the reasonably cool nights of Bogotá.
Artwork at Devcon 🎨
Rituals, shamanism, magic, and thriller spring to mind in Latin America’s id. Coding, hacking, and know-how at massive have grow 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 affect of their artwork whereas taking a important imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally on the lookout for 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 reside performances and interactive installations.
Hacker Basement 🕵️♀️
The hacker basement will likely be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the fitting circumstances for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to be taught, or to hack on new concepts in a bunch.
Every little thing a hacker wants will likely be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, after all, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the fitting temper to construct!
Guide a gathering room 👥
Assembly rooms of varied sizes will likely be obtainable within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re positioned on the fifth ground and will likely 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 holding 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, reside music, sport nights, a Comfortable Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Focus on 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 will likely be added over time!
This yr, we wish to foster collaboration, networking, alternate, creativity, creation, experimentation and rest by means of 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 will likely be six totally different hubs, all specializing in necessary and related subjects with their very own curated program, thrilling issues to be taught and to expertise. You will discover the Group Hubs space on Ground 1!
Meet this yr’s Group Hubs:
- Crypto Economics & Governance Hub
- Design Group Hub
- ReGen Hub
- Momentary Nameless Zone
- Girls Leaders in Web3
- Zero Data Group
Treasure Hunt 🏆
“No Time to DAI” is a story-based treasure hunt problem distributed by means of Devcon (and past) in Bogota. Gamers can have interaction with a browser-based cell pockets dapp, which can preserve monitor 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 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. 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 group initiative, “Local weather Pleasant Devcon VI Dapp” lets you 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 completely on-chain.
Chances are you’ll 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 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 one of the best 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 can create an NFT that will likely 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 grow to be a avenue artwork hunter by means 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 provide unique “permissionless perks” to Devcon attendees with out your pockets tackle being made public. You too can 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!
Impression Cubicles 🌤
In previous years, cubicles have solely been obtainable to groups with massive budgets which can be capable of 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 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 Impression 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 will likely 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’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 info associated to all issues Devcon expertise. As well as the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Internet App) goes reside at app.devcon.org. You should definitely set up the PWA in your telephone and create an account to be sure to have the freshest info and a customized agenda you could share with your mates and colleagues.
The passport may 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 record 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 will likely 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?
In the event you want a hand with discovering a room (or anything 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 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 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 Facet Occasions 👯
You possibly can count on 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 aspect occasions! Take a look at the Colombia Blockchain Week schedule for a schedule!
Co-Work Area After Devcon 💻
In want of a spot to compensate for work after the push of all 4 convention days?
The venue will likely 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 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 inexpensive one-hour flight, ETHPanama will likely be happening in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be a part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum group, and there simply is perhaps 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 keep in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is obtainable 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 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 🦄