Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Handbook, and it contains all the pieces you could 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, 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 destructive 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, bear in mind that your airline or transit firm might need further necessities.
Getting 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 generally 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.
Verify-Mig
Between 24 hours and 1 hour earlier than departure, you need to fill out the ‘Verify-Mig’ type, obtainable on the Migración Colombia web site. You’ll obtain a affirmation e 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 somewhat 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 together with your cellphone out or together with your laptop computer when not obligatory
- 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 experience prices round $3 USD. Keep away from hailing avenue taxis in favor of one thing with a repute/score 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)
- Strive to not stroll house alone at evening (Reminder: Experience 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 have now 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 verify journey occasions between potential-stays and the convention middle
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
For those who haven’t booked your keep but, try 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 learn their information 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 change 💶
The forex 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 right here.
Translation apps 📱
We suggest Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees will likely be touchdown quickly, and we need to just remember to’re capable of 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 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. For those who order an Uber Consolation, it would decide 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 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 (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 Conference Heart
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 won’t 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 make sure that you have 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: Be certain that 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 can have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this 12 months! Nonetheless as at all times, offering good Wi-Fi for hundreds of individuals is difficult. Please be respectful and comply with 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 Heart 🙏
The Agora is a contemporary and absolutely outfitted venue, only a few minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.
We have now plenty of distinctive actions and areas for everybody to look ahead to each inside and outdoors the principle 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 area with their Colombian “Chiva” bus. You’ll find the colourful truck parked within the Devcon venue, within the outdoors area on the first ground.
Music Stage 🎸 & Chiva Lounge 🪩
Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other neighborhood 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 extra particulars concerning the Chiva Lounge right here.
Through the day there will likely be smooth jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you’ll be able to anticipate some primary acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the somewhat 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 giant have develop into 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 crucial imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally on the lookout for modern 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 stay 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 best situations for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to study, or to hack on new concepts in a bunch.
All the things 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 best temper to construct!
E-book a gathering room 👥
Assembly rooms of assorted sizes will likely be obtainable within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re situated on the fifth ground and will likely be reservable on a first-come-first-serve foundation firstly of every day.
“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝
For the primary time in Devcon historical past, we’re protecting 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 Joyful Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Talk about and counsel neighborhood actions on the Froum.
You’ll find an summary of Devcon After Darkish actions right here. Keep in mind that this program continues to be a Work-in-Progress and extra objects will likely be added over time!
This 12 months, we need to foster collaboration, networking, change, creativity, creation, experimentation and rest via varied areas devoted particularly to that.
Neighborhood Hubs are a reserved area on the Devcon venue powered by the neighborhood for the neighborhood. By enabling a handful of communities to create, talk about and show content material of their selection, we pave the way in which for a extra decentralized Devcon.
There will likely 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’ll find the Neighborhood Hubs space on Flooring 1!
Meet this 12 months’s Neighborhood Hubs:
- Crypto Economics & Governance Hub
- Design Neighborhood Hub
- ReGen Hub
- Non permanent 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 interact with a browser-based cell pockets dapp, which can 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 to be able to win. A whole bunch 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” 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 totally on-chain.
You might instantly mint a particular POAP for collaborating within the Devcon neighborhood offset.
After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally means that you can vote on which nature conservation undertaking to retire carbon credit from. Might or not 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 neighborhood 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 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 in the course of the 4 days of Devcon, the place folks 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.
Individuals can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be a part of the mission to develop into a avenue artwork hunter via 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 deal with being made public. You can too mint a memento NFT!
For extra data 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 obtainable to groups with giant budgets which might be capable of 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 embody consumer groups, many teams working to enhance Ethereum’s infrastructure, public items efforts, rollup tasks, and chosen different high-impact tasks.
You’ll discover the Affect 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 Spherical @ Devcon, to Gitcoin, CLR.Fund’s open grants, and to the Protocol Guild (which supported core Ethereum analysis and improvement). EF will likely be collaborating on this effort too!
Our crew owes a huge 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 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 🥗
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 data associated to all issues Devcon expertise. As well as the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Net App) goes stay at app.devcon.org. Be sure you set up the PWA in your cellphone and create an account to be sure you have the freshest data and a customized agenda that you would be able to share with your mates and colleagues.
The passport may be signed in through e mail or you’ll be able to merely Check in together 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
Right here you will discover a web3 model 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 community as storage, along with the present video internet hosting choices.
c. Cannot discover a room?
For those who 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 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 loads of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Test it out right here
The information covers all the pieces 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 Aspect Occasions 👯
You’ll be able to anticipate many neighborhood occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be occurring round Devcon. A giant due to the wonderful neighborhood for placing a lot devoted work into organizing facet occasions! Take a look at 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 frenzy 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 area for collaboration obtainable.
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 neighborhood for per 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 will likely be happening in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum neighborhood, and there simply could 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 basic line): Tel: 123
Metropolitan Police: Tel: 112
We can have medical employees on the venue on-site in case of emergencies.
You can too contact emergency@devcon.org.
Code of Conduct 👔
Please bear in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is out there right here.
For any questions relating to the Code of Conduct, or to make a report/file a grievance, contact a employees member or a volunteer.
Keep updated with the most recent information! 🗞
Observe Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon
Be part of our official Telegram neighborhood for questions and facet occasions.
That is it! Keep 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 🦄
