Once we requested a lot of you, “What are you most excited for at Devcon4?” most individuals replied: the individuals! That is the one time a yr all of us get collectively in a single place. We don’t need to spend all of our time at Devcon sitting in a darkish room, staring in silence at an individual on a stage – we need to see, meet and speak with one another.
In that spirit, we’re designing the programming and setting of Devcon4 to supply the time and area for all of us to make new connections – between individuals and concepts. It is a probability for us to ask one another a very powerful questions and dive deep into the hardest challenges (and thrilling alternatives!) dealing with Ethereum as we speak.
So we’re going to experiment with extra participatory programming at Devcon4 this yr!
Listed below are 3 ways you may apply to take part in Devcon4:
- Give a presentation: That is self-explanatory. 😉 Give a 5-minute lightning speak or a 20-minute presentation on the subject of your alternative.
- Lead a workshop: Educate individuals to do one thing. Over the course of two hours, contributors ought to “get their palms soiled,” whether or not writing code or studying to inform tales.
- Host a breakout room: Be inventive and provide you with your personal programming for Devcon4! Host dapp design critiques, facilitate a dialog, do stay safety opinions, [enter your awesome idea here]
Whenever you apply, we ask that you simply join your session to considered one of six core themes:
- Scalability: How can we scale Ethereum in a safe, decentralized, and trustless method as a way to obtain mass adoption?
- Safety: How can we guarantee the security of consumer information and funds?
- Privateness: How can we empower customers to be accountable for their very own information?
- Developer Expertise: How can we make growing for Ethereum easy, extensible, and enjoyable?
- UX & Design: How can we create a extra intuitive, usable and pleasant expertise for our customers?
- Society & Methods: Why will we BUIDL? How will this know-how change our societal programs, and the individuals inside them? (To be clear: that is additionally a little bit of a “catch all” theme for governance, cryptoeconomics, social affect, memes, and so on.)
If you wish to speak about your particular dapp or protocol, please accomplish that within the context of considered one of these shared matters. How have you ever recognized or solved a typical drawback? How can your work profit the remainder of our neighborhood?
With ~3000 contributors and solely a lot time, we count on purposes for participation to be extremely aggressive this yr. Please purchase your tickets forward of time within the probability that your submission is not accepted so that you simply don’t miss out on getting a ticket to Devcon4! We’ll course of a refund for anybody who purchases a ticket after which qualifies for a complimentary go.
Please assist us create a Devcon4 expertise within the spirit of those values:
- Participatory: We’re all creating the Ethereum ecosystem collectively and Devcon4 ought to replicate that. Along with instructional talks, Devcon4 ought to present alternatives for contributors to contribute to the broader dialog and share info with each other.
- Academic: As the one EF-hosted occasion, Devcon4 is an opportunity for our neighborhood to be taught straight from the leaders of the Ethereum ecosystem. Members ought to be taught issues they couldn’t be taught wherever else.
- Enjoyable: The primary purpose why individuals come to Devcon is to see each other! Let’s create a uniquely “Ethereum” household reunion for our neighborhood.
Go to https://devcon4.ethereum.org/call-for-participation to be taught extra and apply!
–dc⟠ıv crew
