Welcome to Devcon!

That is your Devcon VI Guide, and it contains every part 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 knowledge associated to pre-registration dates, neighborhood efforts at Devcon VI, facet/after occasions, and extra!

Bookmark this tab if you happen to’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 damaging take a look at result’s wanted for entry.

Please inform your self right 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 may need further necessities.

Getting into the nation 🇨🇴

Return flight

You’ll want to indicate a ticket to your returning flights to enter Colombia. They generally 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.

Examine-Mig

Between 24 hours and 1 hour earlier than departure, you could fill out the ‘Examine-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 basically 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 somewhat than getting misplaced in your telephone’s display.
• 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 obligatory
• It’s an enormous metropolis, so go away 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 repute/ranking system, an match these plates to what you see within the app, as all the time.
• Tip: possibly pay the additional greenback for a nicer “Uber Consolation” (really helpful when coming from the Airport)
• Attempt to not stroll residence 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. 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 Metropolis Information. Chapinero, Parkway / La Soledad, and La Candelaria are good areas, however all the time verify journey occasions between potential-stays and the convention heart

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 may e book inns 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 Kind A (two pins) and Kind B (three pins). Preserve an adapter with you, if wanted!

Foreign money alternate 💶

The forex is the Colombian Peso (COP). You may alternate money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.

You may verify alternate charges right here.

Translation apps 📱

We advocate Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.

II. Transit 🚙

Most attendees shall be touchdown quickly, and we wish to just be sure you’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 straightforward methods to achieve the Agora Bogotá Conference Heart, 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. For those who order an Uber Consolation, it is going to choose you up on the second ground ‘Arrivals’ stage of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.

There shall 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 (if you happen to 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 machine 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 shall 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 certain 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: Ensure to have some cell 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 all the time, offering excellent 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 identify: DevconBogota

Wi-Fi password: runafullnode

IV. Venue and Experiences 🏢

a. Welcome to the Agora Bogotá Conference Heart 🙏

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 have now various distinctive actions and areas for everybody to look ahead to each inside and outdoors the principle 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 outdoors house on the first ground.

Music Stage 🎸 & Chiva Lounge 🪩

Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other neighborhood initiative – is awaiting you. There shall be a program with breaks day by day from 11AM to 9PM.

Discover this system, introductions to all artists, and extra particulars in regards to the Chiva Lounge right here.

In the course of the day there shall be comfortable jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you may count on some important 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 come to mind in Latin America’s id. Coding, hacking, and expertise at massive have turn out 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 exhibits the work of digital & digital Latin artists who implement blockchain to boost the affect of their artwork whereas taking a essential imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally searching 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 dwell performances and interactive installations.

Hacker Basement 🕵️‍♀️

The hacker basement shall be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the fitting situations for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to study, or to hack on new concepts in a bunch.

The whole lot a hacker wants shall be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, in fact, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the fitting temper to construct!

E book a gathering room 👥

Assembly rooms of varied sizes shall be accessible within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re situated on the fifth ground and shall be reservable on a first-come-first-serve foundation at the beginning of every day.

“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝

For the primary time in Devcon historical past, we’re retaining 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 supply an area for continued collaboration, dwell music, recreation nights, a Pleased Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!

Focus on and counsel neighborhood 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 gadgets shall be added over time!

Group Hubs ✨

This 12 months, we wish to foster collaboration, networking, alternate, creativity, creation, experimentation and leisure by means of numerous 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, talk about and show content material of their selection, we pave the way in which for a extra decentralized Devcon.

There shall be six totally different hubs, all specializing in essential and related subjects with their very own curated program, thrilling issues to study and to expertise. You could find the Group Hubs space on Flooring 1!

Meet this 12 months’s Group Hubs:

• Crypto Economics & Governance Hub
• Design Group Hub
• ReGen Hub
• Short-term Nameless Zone
• Ladies 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 interact with a browser-based cell pockets dapp, which can hold observe of all gamers’ progress on-chain.

To play, you could 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. A whole lot 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 neighborhood 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 collaborating within the Devcon neighborhood offset.

After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally lets you vote on which nature conservation challenge to retire carbon credit from. May or not it’s the Indigneous Reservation of the Matavén Forest in Colombia…?

You may 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 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 folks will be capable of unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that shall 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 road artwork hunter by means of the CM web site.

Ticket attestations / Minting distinctive NFT 🎟

This 12 months, in collaboration with Good 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 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 affect 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 tasks, and chosen different high-impact tasks.

You will 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 shall be collaborating 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 🥗

Count on the meals to be a mixture of very native conventional Colombian meals, and worldwide meals.

We are going to attempt to all the time have vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free meals, though sadly can’t 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 dwell at app.devcon.org. Make sure to set up the PWA in your telephone and create an account to be sure to have the hottest info and a customized agenda you could share with your folks and colleagues.

The passport could be signed in through electronic mail or you may merely Register 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 knowledge associated to the venue map, the place to seek out particular rooms and activations and rather more.

b. Web3 video archive and occasion agenda by Swarm community and Etherna

Web3 Devcon Agenda
Right here yow will discover a web3 model of the Devcon Agenda hosted on the Swarm community, a decentralized information storage and distribution expertise.

Web3 video internet hosting

The Devcon video archive shall 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?

For those who want a hand with discovering a room (or anything at Devcon), you may all the time 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 loads of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Test it out right here

The information covers every part 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 Aspect Occasions 👯

You may count on many neighborhood occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be occurring round Devcon. A giant because of the superb 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 compensate for work after the push of all 4 convention days?

The venue shall 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. A terrific 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 numerous conferences.
ETHMedellin 🇨🇴 — Oct 18-22
Only one week after ETHMedellin and an inexpensive one-hour flight, ETHPanama shall be happening in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be a part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum neighborhood, 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 basic line): Tel: 123
Metropolitan Police: Tel: 112

We could have medical employees on the venue on-site in case of emergencies.
You can too contact emergency@devcon.org.

Code of Conduct 👔

Please keep in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is obtainable right here.

For any questions concerning 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! 🗞

Comply with Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon

Be a part of our official Telegram neighborhood 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 🦄