Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Guide, and it consists of every part you might want to find out about Devcon, the environment and extra. Learn intently as we cowl issues to pay attention to 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, aspect/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 unfavorable take a look at result’s wanted for entry.
Please inform your self here, or use your private home nation’s embassy web page as necessities would possibly change. Additionally, remember that your airline or transit firm may need further necessities.
Getting into the nation 🇨🇴
Return flight
You’ll want to indicate a ticket on your returning flights to enter Colombia. They often ask for it, and generally they don’t, however play it secure and guide your journeys accordingly.
Professional tip: Some journey websites like Priceline make it straightforward to guide 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, it’s essential to fill out the ‘Check-Mig’ form, accessible 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 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 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 together with your cellphone out or together with your laptop computer when not mandatory
- It’s a giant metropolis, so depart these valuables (passport, extra money/playing cards) at your resort
- Use Uber or DiDi, the place a 20-min experience 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 all the time.
- Tip: possibly pay the additional greenback for a nicer “Uber Consolation” (really useful when coming from the Airport)
- Strive to not stroll residence alone at night time (Reminder: Trip 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. Nonetheless, you shouldn’t neglect your jackets and raincoats, as rain showers occur!
The place to remain in Bogotá? 🏠
We’ve some suggestions on areas near the venue in our Bogotá City Guide. Chapinero, Parkway / La Soledad, and La Candelaria are good areas, however all the time examine journey occasions between potential-stays and the convention middle
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
If you happen to 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 guide resorts 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, retailers and sockets are Kind A (two pins) and Kind B (three pins). Maintain an adapter with you, if wanted!
Foreign money trade 💶
The foreign money is the Colombian Peso (COP). You’ll be able to trade money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.
You’ll be able to examine trade charges here.
Translation apps 📱
We suggest Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees can 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 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. If you happen to order an Uber Consolation, it should 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 group 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 Convention Center
Registration “Have to 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 should 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 be 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 sure to have some cell 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 yr! Nonetheless as all the time, offering good Wi-Fi for 1000’s of individuals is hard. 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 outfitted venue, only a few minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.
We’ve quite a few distinctive actions and areas for everybody to stay up for 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 could find the colourful truck parked within the Devcon venue, within the outdoors area on the first flooring.
Music Stage 🎸 & Chiva Lounge 🪩
Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other neighborhood initiative – is awaiting you. There can be a program with breaks every single day from 11AM to 9PM.
Discover this system, introductions to all artists, and more details about the Chiva Lounge here.
In the course of the day there can be smooth jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you’ll be able to anticipate some predominant 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 identification. Coding, hacking, and know-how at giant 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 exhibits the work of digital & digital Latin artists who implement blockchain to boost the influence of their artwork whereas taking a essential 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 observe 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 appropriate circumstances for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to study, or to hack on new concepts in a gaggle.
Every thing a hacker wants can be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, in fact, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the appropriate temper to construct!
E-book a gathering room 👥
Assembly rooms of varied 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 at the beginning of every day.
“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝
For the primary time in Devcon historical past, we’re preserving 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, stay music, recreation nights, a Blissful Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Focus on and recommend neighborhood actions on the Froum.
You could find an summary of Devcon After Darkish actions here. Keep in mind that this program continues to be a Work-in-Progress and extra gadgets can be added over time!
This yr, we wish to foster collaboration, networking, trade, 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, focus on and show content material of their selection, we pave the best way for a extra decentralized Devcon.
There can be six totally different hubs, all specializing in necessary and related subjects with their very own curated program, thrilling issues to study and to expertise. You could find the Neighborhood Hubs space on Ground 1!
Meet this yr’s Neighborhood Hubs:
- Crypto Economics & Governance Hub
- Design Neighborhood Hub
- ReGen Hub
- Short-term Nameless Zone
- Ladies 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 is able to preserve observe of all gamers’ progress on-chain.
To play, it’s essential to discover clue #0 within the devcon venue. Gentle 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 so as 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 on 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 could instantly mint a particular POAP for taking part within the Devcon neighborhood offset.
After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally lets you vote on which nature conservation mission to retire carbon credit from. May 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 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 here.
Cryptomurals 🖼
CRYPTOMURALS goals to protect the cultural heritage of the perfect 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 through the 4 days of Devcon, the place folks will be capable of unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that can 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 turn out to be a road artwork hunter via the CM website.
Ticket attestations / Minting distinctive NFT 🎟
This yr, in collaboration with Smart Token Labs, attendees can now permissionlessly attest that they have 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 data go to the Devcon website, try the FAQ in addition to different details about Bogotá and the Devcon programming!
Influence Cubicles 🌤
In previous years, cubicles have solely been accessible to groups with giant budgets which can be in a position to pay for sponsorship packages. This yr, we reserved cubicles for groups with excessive influence 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 tasks, and chosen different high-impact tasks.
You’ll find the Influence 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 Round @ Devcon, to Gitcoin, CLR.Fund’s open grants, and to the Protocol Guild (which supported core Ethereum analysis and growth). EF can be taking part on this effort too!
Our group owes a large THANK YOU to these groups and DAOs that joined our first-ever Supporter Program this yr 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 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 a whole re-lift so as to add data associated to all issues Devcon expertise. As well as the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Internet App) goes stay at app.devcon.org. You should definitely set up the PWA in your cellphone and create an account to be sure you have the hottest data and a customized agenda which you could share with your pals and colleagues.
The passport may be signed in through electronic mail or you’ll be able to merely Sign up together with your web3 pockets. Add your favourite audio system to your checklist 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 seek out particular rooms and activations and way 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 can be accessible 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?
If you happen to want a hand with discovering a room (or the rest at Devcon), you’ll be able to 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 group has put collectively a Metropolis Information on numerous the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Check it out here
The information covers every part 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’ll be able to anticipate 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 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 area for collaboration accessible.
ETH Medellin & ETH Panama ♦️
A bus-ride or brief flight away lies Medellin, Bogotá’s hotter and extra touristic neighbor. A fantastic excuse to increase your journey or journey is to unite with the Ethereum Medellin neighborhood for every week of open co-working, night occasions, and varied conferences.
ETHMedellin 🇨🇴 — Oct 18-22
Only one week after ETHMedellin and an inexpensive one-hour flight, ETHPanama can 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 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 employees 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 out there here.
For any questions relating to the Code of Conduct, or to make a report/file a criticism, contact a employees member or a volunteer.
Keep updated with the newest information! 🗞
Comply with Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon
Be part of our official Telegram community for questions and aspect 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 group 🦄
