Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Guide, and it contains the whole lot it is advisable find out 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, group efforts at Devcon VI, aspect/after occasions, and extra!
Bookmark this tab for those who’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 adverse check result’s wanted for entry.
Please inform your self right here, or use your house nation’s embassy web page as necessities would possibly change. Additionally, remember that your airline or transit firm may need extra necessities.
Coming 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 typically they don’t, however play it secure and e book your journeys accordingly.
Professional tip: Some journey websites like Priceline make it straightforward 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 will need to fill out the ‘Verify-Mig’ type, 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 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 moderately 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 mandatory
- It’s a giant 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 road taxis in favor of one thing with a status/score 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)
- Attempt to not stroll dwelling alone at evening (Reminder: Trip 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. Nonetheless, you shouldn’t neglect your jackets and raincoats, as rain showers occur!
The place to remain in Bogotá? 🏠
We now have some suggestions on areas near the venue in our Bogotá Metropolis Information. Chapinero, Parkway / La Soledad, and La Candelaria are good areas, however at all times test journey instances 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 e book resorts in Bogotá with stablecoins.
To get your first web3 journey expertise, please learn their information 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 alternate 💶
The forex 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 right here.
Translation apps 📱
We suggest Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees can be touchdown quickly, and we need to just remember to’re in a position to simply navigate towards the Devcon venue.
The vast majority 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 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. 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 can be a Devcon logistics crew 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 (for those who 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 Conference Heart
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 have to be picked up at registration. Don’t lose your wristband — it won’t get replaced.
- Swag can 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 make 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 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 12 months! Nonetheless as at all times, offering excellent Wi-Fi for 1000’s of individuals is hard. Please be respectful and comply with 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 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.
We now have a variety 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. You could find 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 can be a program with breaks on daily basis from 11AM to 9PM.
Discover this system, introductions to all artists, and extra particulars in regards to the Chiva Lounge right here.
Through the day there can be comfortable jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you may count on some primary acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the moderately 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 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 boost the impression of their artwork whereas taking a important imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally on the lookout for modern 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 can be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the suitable 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 can be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, after all, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the suitable 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 initially of every day.
“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝
For the primary time in Devcon historical past, we’re conserving 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, stay music, recreation nights, a Completely happy Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Talk about and counsel group actions on the Froum.
You could find an summary of Devcon After Darkish actions right here. Keep in mind that this program remains to be a Work-in-Progress and extra objects can be added over time!
This 12 months, we need to foster collaboration, networking, alternate, creativity, creation, experimentation and leisure by way of varied 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 selection, we pave the best way for a extra decentralized Devcon.
There can 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. You could find the Group Hubs space on Ground 1!
Meet this 12 months’s Group Hubs:
- Crypto Economics & Governance Hub
- Design Group Hub
- ReGen Hub
- Momentary Nameless Zone
- Girls Leaders in Web3
- Zero Information Group
Treasure Hunt 🏆
“No Time to DAI” is a story-based treasure hunt problem distributed by way of Devcon (and past) in Bogota. Gamers can have interaction with a browser-based cellular pockets dapp, which can hold monitor 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 a purpose to win. Lots 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 to your carbon dioxide emissions created by attending Devcon.
Upon getting 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 could 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 right 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 right here.
Cryptomurals 🖼
CRYPTOMURALS goals to protect the cultural heritage of the very best road artwork worldwide.
For the primary time, CM is internet hosting the “road 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.
Individuals can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be a part of the mission to turn out to be a road artwork hunter by way of the CM web site.
Ticket attestations / Minting distinctive NFT 🎟
This 12 months, in collaboration with Sensible 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 tackle being made public. You may as well mint a memento NFT!
For extra info go to the Devcon web site, try 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 12 months, 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 will 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 Spherical @ Devcon, to Gitcoin, CLR.Fund’s open grants, and to the Protocol Guild (which supported core Ethereum analysis and improvement). EF can be taking part on this effort too!
Our crew owes a large 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 are going to 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 stay at app.devcon.org. Be sure you set up the PWA in your cellphone and create an account to ensure you have the hottest info and a customized agenda that you may share with your mates and colleagues.
The passport might be signed in through electronic mail or you may 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 knowledge 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
Right here you will discover a web3 model of the Devcon Agenda hosted on the Swarm community, a decentralized knowledge 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 community 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 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 crew has put collectively a Metropolis Information on quite a lot of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Test it out right here
The information covers the whole lot from methods to get round, to security, areas that you’re going to need to see and/or keep round. See an included FAQ on vaccinations, meals, language and extra!
Devcon Facet 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 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 atone 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 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 amazing 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 varied conferences.
ETHMedellin 🇨🇴 — Oct 18-22
Only one week after ETHMedellin and an affordable 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 could 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.
You may as well contact [email protected].
Code of Conduct 👔
Please bear in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is obtainable right here.
For any questions relating to the Code of Conduct, or to make a report/file a grievance, contact a workers member or a volunteer.
Keep updated with the newest information! 🗞
Observe Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon
Be a part of our official Telegram group 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 crew 🦄
