Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Handbook, and it contains every part you have to 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, aspect/after occasions, and extra!
Bookmark this tab if you happen to’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 damaging take a look at result’s wanted for entry.
Please inform your self here, or use your property nation’s embassy web page as necessities would possibly 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 point out a ticket in your returning flights to enter Colombia. They generally ask for it, and generally they don’t, however play it secure and e-book your journeys accordingly.
Professional tip: Some journey websites like Priceline make it simple to e-book a flight after which cancel inside 24 hours for a full refund, in case plans change.
Test-Mig
Between 24 hours and 1 hour earlier than departure, you could fill out the ‘Check-Mig’ form, obtainable 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. Meaning:
- Look the place you’re going, being conscious of the world round you reasonably 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 crucial
- 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 experience prices round $3 USD. Keep away from hailing road taxis in favor of one thing with a status/ranking 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” (beneficial when coming from the Airport)
- Strive to not stroll residence alone at evening (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 have now some suggestions on areas near the venue in our Bogotá City Guide. Chapinero, Parkway / La Soledad, and La Candelaria are good areas, however at all times verify journey occasions between potential-stays and the convention heart
Web3 Journey reserving 
Should you haven’t booked your keep but, take a look at one of many neighborhood initiatives round Devcon: Windingtree is a platform the place you possibly can e-book motels 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). Hold an adapter with you, if wanted!
Forex alternate 
The foreign money is the Colombian Peso (COP). You possibly can alternate money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.
You possibly can verify alternate charges here.
Translation apps 
We advocate Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 
Most attendees will likely be touchdown quickly, and we wish to just remember to’re capable of simply navigate towards the Devcon venue.
Nearly all of of us will arrive at Bogotá’s airport, El Dorado Worldwide Airport (BOG). From there, there are a couple of simple 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. Should you order an Uber Consolation, it would decide you up on the second flooring ‘Arrivals’ degree of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There will likely 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 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 (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 “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 prematurely.
- Wristbands are required for entry and should be picked up at registration. Don’t lose your wristband — it is not going to 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 be certain that you have redeemed your tickets.
c. Web and SIM Playing cards 
We’ll 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 obtainable 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 can have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this 12 months! Nonetheless as at all times, offering excellent Wi-Fi for hundreds of individuals is hard. 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, just some minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.
We have now a lot of 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. Yow will discover the colourful truck parked within the Devcon venue, within the outdoors house on the first flooring.
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 daily from 11AM to 9PM.
Discover this system, introductions to all artists, and more details about the Chiva Lounge here.
Through the day there will likely be comfortable jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you possibly can anticipate some primary acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the reasonably 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 grow 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 vital imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally on the lookout for progressive 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 dwell 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 proper 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 pieces a hacker wants will likely be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, in fact, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the proper temper to construct!
Guide a gathering room 
Assembly rooms of varied sizes will likely be obtainable within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re positioned on the fifth flooring and will likely 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 maintaining 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, dwell music, sport nights, a Comfortable Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Talk about and recommend neighborhood actions on the Froum.
Yow will discover an summary of Devcon After Darkish actions here. Keep in mind that this program remains to be a Work-in-Progress and extra gadgets will likely be added over time!
This 12 months, we wish to foster collaboration, networking, alternate, creativity, creation, experimentation and rest by means of varied areas devoted particularly to that.
Neighborhood 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 alternative, we pave the best way for a extra decentralized Devcon.
There will likely be six completely different hubs, all specializing in vital and related matters with their very own curated program, thrilling issues to study and to expertise. Yow will discover the Neighborhood Hubs space on Flooring 1!
Meet this 12 months’s Neighborhood Hubs:
- Crypto Economics & Governance Hub
- Design Neighborhood Hub
- ReGen Hub
- Short-term Nameless Zone
- Girls Leaders in Web3
- Zero Information Neighborhood
Treasure Hunt
“No Time to DAI” is a story-based treasure hunt problem distributed by means 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 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 a purpose to win. A whole bunch 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 in 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 totally on-chain.
You could instantly mint a particular POAP for taking part within the Devcon neighborhood offset.
After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally permits you to vote on which nature conservation undertaking to retire carbon credit from. Might it’s the Indigneous Reservation of the Matavén Forest in Colombia…?
You possibly can 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 most effective 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 will likely 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 grow to be a road artwork hunter by means of the CM website.
Ticket attestations / Minting distinctive NFT 
This 12 months, 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 supply unique “permissionless perks” to Devcon attendees with out your pockets handle being made public. You can too mint a memento NFT!
For extra info go to the Devcon website, take a look at 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 can 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 can 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 Round @ Devcon, to Gitcoin, CLR.Fund’s open grants, and to the Protocol Guild (which supported core Ethereum analysis and improvement). EF will likely 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 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’ll 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 a whole 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. Be sure you set up the PWA in your cellphone and create an account to be sure you have the hottest info and a customized agenda that you may share with your mates and colleagues.
The passport could be signed in by way of electronic mail or you possibly can merely Sign up together with your web3 pockets. Add your favourite audio system to your listing to see all of the periods 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 far 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 will likely be obtainable 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?
Should you want a hand with discovering a room (or the rest at Devcon), you possibly can 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 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 a variety of 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’re going to wish to see and/or keep round. See an included FAQ on vaccinations, meals, language and extra!
Devcon Facet Occasions 
You possibly can anticipate many neighborhood occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be occurring round Devcon. A giant because of the wonderful neighborhood for placing a lot devoted work into organizing aspect occasions! Try the Colombia Blockchain Week schedule for a schedule!
Co-Work House After Devcon
In want of a spot to compensate for work after the push 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 house for collaboration obtainable.
ETH Medellin & ETH Panama ♦️
A bus-ride or quick flight away lies Medellin, Bogotá’s hotter and extra touristic neighbor. An awesome 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 inexpensive one-hour flight, ETHPanama will likely be happening in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be a 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 normal 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 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 most recent information! 
Observe Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon
Be a part of our official Telegram community 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 group 
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