Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Handbook, and it contains every thing it’s essential learn about Devcon, the environment and extra. Learn carefully 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, facet/after occasions, and extra!
Bookmark this tab in case 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 here, or use your house nation’s embassy web page as necessities would possibly change. Additionally, remember that your airline or transit firm might need extra necessities.
Coming 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 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.
Verify-Mig
Between 24 hours and 1 hour earlier than departure, you have to fill out the ‘Check-Mig’ form, obtainable on the Migración Colombia web site. You’ll obtain a affirmation e mail to current upon arrival in Colombia.
Security 👷♀️
A neighborhood 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 relatively 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 resort
- Use Uber or DiDi, the place a 20-min trip prices round $3 USD. Keep away from hailing avenue taxis in favor of one thing with a popularity/score system, an match these plates to what you see within the app, as all the time.
- Tip: perhaps pay the additional greenback for a nicer “Uber Consolation” (beneficial when coming from the Airport)
- Strive to not stroll house alone at night time (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’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 verify journey instances between potential-stays and the convention middle
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
For those who haven’t booked your keep but, take a look at 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 read their guide or ask any query on the Windingtree Discord:discord.gg/MTYEm2BfWS.
Electrical energy 🔌
In Colombia, shops and sockets are Sort A (two pins) and Sort B (three pins). Preserve an adapter with you, if wanted!
Forex trade 💶
The foreign money is the Colombian Peso (COP). You possibly can trade money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.
You possibly can verify trade charges here.
Translation apps 📱
We suggest Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees shall 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 couple 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 should decide you up on the second flooring ‘Arrivals’ stage of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There shall be a Devcon logistics staff 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 case 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 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 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 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 sure that you’ve got 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 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 yr! Nevertheless as all the time, offering excellent Wi-Fi for hundreds of individuals is hard. Please be respectful and observe the Wi-Fi pointers offered 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 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 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 exterior 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 shall 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 shall be smooth jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you may count on some major acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the relatively 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 turn 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 reinforce the impression of their artwork whereas taking a crucial imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally in search of 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 reside 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.
All the pieces a hacker wants shall be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, after all, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the fitting temper to construct!
Ebook a gathering room 👥
Assembly rooms of assorted sizes shall be obtainable within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re positioned on the fifth flooring and shall 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 holding 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 offer an area for continued collaboration, reside music, recreation nights, a Pleased 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 remains to be a Work-in-Progress and extra gadgets shall be added over time!
This yr, we need to foster collaboration, networking, trade, creativity, creation, experimentation and rest by way of numerous 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 shall be six totally different hubs, all specializing in vital and related matters 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
- Momentary Nameless Zone
- Ladies Leaders in Web3
- Zero Information Neighborhood
Treasure Hunt 🏆
“No Time to DAI” is a story-based treasure hunt problem distributed by way of Devcon (and past) in Bogota. Gamers can have interaction with a browser-based cell pockets dapp, which can hold observe of all gamers’ progress on-chain.
To play, you have 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 information is useful.
Superior and/or aggressive gamers should keep forward of the time curve in an effort 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 coming into a departure airport the dapp calculates your flight emissions and provides it to the estimated occasion emission per individual. All transactions happen totally on-chain.
Chances are you’ll 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 undertaking to retire carbon credit from. Might or not 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 primarily based 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 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 be capable to 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.
Individuals can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be part of the mission to turn into a avenue artwork hunter by way of the CM website.
Ticket attestations / Minting distinctive NFT 🎟
This yr, in collaboration with Smart Token Labs, attendees can now permissionlessly attest that they had 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 can too mint a memento NFT!
For extra data 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 yr, we reserved cubicles for groups with excessive impression 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 initiatives, and chosen different high-impact initiatives.
You will see that 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 shall be collaborating on this effort too!
Our staff owes a huge THANK YOU to these groups and DAOs that joined our first-ever Supporter Program this yr 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 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 an entire re-lift so as to add data associated to all issues Devcon expertise. As well as the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Internet App) goes reside at app.devcon.org. Make sure to set up the PWA in your telephone and create an account to ensure you have the hottest data and a customized agenda which you can share with your pals and colleagues.
The passport might be signed in through e mail or you may merely Sign up along 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 primarily based 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
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 shall 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?
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 a complete Devcon Week! That includes the ETH Bogotá hackathon, the DAOist, Schellingpoint and extra.
VI. Discover Bogotá 🌆
Excellent news! Our staff has put collectively a Metropolis Information on plenty of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Check it out here
The information covers every thing 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 possibly can count on many neighborhood occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be taking place round Devcon. A giant due to the wonderful neighborhood for placing a lot devoted work into organizing facet occasions! Try 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 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 obtainable.
ETH Medellin & ETH Panama ♦️
A bus-ride or brief flight away lies Medellin, Bogotá’s hotter and extra touristic neighbor. An important 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 affordable one-hour flight, ETHPanama shall be going down in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum neighborhood, and there simply may 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 workers 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 obtainable here.
For any questions relating to the Code of Conduct, or to make a report/file a criticism, contact a workers member or a volunteer.
Keep updated with the newest information! 🗞
Observe Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon
Be part of our official Telegram community 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 staff 🦄
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