Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Handbook, and it contains every little thing you could find out about Devcon, the environment and extra. Learn intently 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 should 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 😷
A COVID-19 Vaccination (two [2] doses of a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or one [1] dose of a J&J Vaccine), or a detrimental check result’s wanted to enter Colombia.
Please inform your self right here, or use your own home nation’s embassy web page as necessities would possibly change. Additionally, remember that your airline or transit firm may need extra necessities.
Coming into the nation 🇨🇴
Return flight
You’ll want to point out a ticket on your returning flights to enter Colombia. They generally ask for it, and generally they don’t, however play it protected and ebook your journeys accordingly.
Professional tip: Some journey websites like Priceline make it straightforward to ebook 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 will need to fill out the ‘Examine-Mig’ kind, obtainable on the Migración Colombia web site. You’ll obtain a affirmation e mail to current upon arrival in Colombia.
Security 👷♀️
An area 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 widespread 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 along with your cellphone out or along with your laptop computer when not crucial
- It’s an enormous metropolis, so depart 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 road taxis in favor of one thing with a popularity/ranking system, an match these plates to what you see within the app, as at all times.
- Tip: perhaps pay the additional greenback for a nicer “Uber Consolation” (beneficial when coming from the Airport)
- Attempt to not stroll house alone at evening (Reminder: Experience 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? 🏠
Now we have some suggestions on areas near the venue in our Bogotá Metropolis Information. 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 🏨
In case you 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 ebook 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 can be touchdown quickly, and we wish to just remember to’re in a position to 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 just a few 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. In case you order an Uber Consolation, it should decide you up on the second ground ‘Arrivals’ degree of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There can 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 (should 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 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 is not going to 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 certain 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: Ensure that to have some cellular information 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 may have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this 12 months! Nonetheless as at all times, 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 totally geared up venue, only a few minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.
Now we have a variety of distinctive actions and areas for everybody to sit up for each inside and outdoors the primary 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 area with their Colombian “Chiva” bus. You’ll find the colourful truck parked within the Devcon venue, within the outdoors area on the first ground.
Music Stage 🎸
Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other neighborhood initiative – is awaiting you. There can be a program with breaks daily from 11AM to 9PM.
Through the day there can be gentle jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you’ll be able to anticipate some most important acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the reasonably cool nights of Bogotá.
You can see the schedule of the stage as soon as the convention begins on the web site: devcon.org/program.
Artwork at Devcon 🎨
Rituals, shamanism, magic, and thriller spring to mind in Latin America’s id. Coding, hacking, and expertise 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 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 reside performances and interactive installations.
Hacker Basement 🕵️♀️
The hacker basement can be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the precise situations for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to study, or to hack on new concepts in a bunch.
Every little 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 precise temper to construct!
E-book a gathering room 👥
Assembly rooms of varied sizes can be obtainable within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re positioned on the fifth ground and can 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 conserving 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 supply an area for continued collaboration, reside music, recreation nights, a Comfortable Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Focus on and recommend neighborhood actions on the Froum.
We are going to submit a whole schedule quickly.
Neighborhood Hubs 👾
Neighborhood Hubs are devoted areas, by which chosen neighborhood teams and initiatives will be capable of (to a sure diploma) form on their very own. By enabling a handful of communities to create, talk about and show content material of their alternative, we pave the way in which for a extra decentralized and community-driven Devcon.
You may think about Neighborhood Hubs like stalls, or cubicles at a good, however most likely a bit greater and, very importantly, with out the product advertising!
Meet this 12 months’s Neighborhood Hubs:
- Crypto Economics & Governance
- Design Neighborhood Hub
- ETHLatAm Neighborhood Chiva Chillout
- ReGen Hub
- Non permanent Nameless Zone
- Ladies Leaders in Web3
- Zero Information Neighborhood
Treasure Hunt 🏆
“No Time to DAI” is a story-based treasure hunt problem distributed by Devcon (and past) in Bogota. Gamers can have interaction with a browser-based cellular pockets dapp, which can preserve observe of all gamers’ progress on-chain.
To play, you will need to discover clue #0 within the devcon venue. Mild 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 with a view to win. A whole bunch of ETH is hidden all through the sport, proper there for the taking! 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 individual. All transactions happen completely on-chain.
Chances are you’ll 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 venture to retire carbon credit from. Might or not it’s the Indigneous Reservation of the Matavén Forest in Colombia…?
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. The Local weather Pleasant Devcon VI Dapp can be obtainable quickly.
Cryptomurals 🖼
CRYPTOMURALS goals to protect the cultural heritage of one of the 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 through the 4 days of Devcon, the place individuals 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 completed the three spots.
Folks can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be a part of the mission to turn into a road artwork hunter by the CM web site.
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 provide unique “permissionless perks” to Devcon attendees with out your pockets handle being made public. You too can mint a memento NFT!
For extra data go to the Devcon web site, try the FAQ in addition to different details about Bogotá and the Devcon programming!
Influence Cubicles 🌤
In previous years, cubicles have solely been obtainable to groups with giant budgets which are in a position to 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 shopper groups, many teams working to enhance Ethereum’s infrastructure, public items efforts, rollup initiatives, and chosen different high-impact initiatives.
You can see the Influence 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 growth). EF can be taking part on this effort too!
Our workforce 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 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 at all times 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 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 reside at app.devcon.org. You should definitely set up the PWA in your cellphone and create an account to be sure to have the freshest data and a customized agenda that you would be able to share with your mates and colleagues.
The passport may be signed in by way of e mail or you’ll be able to merely Register along with your web3 pockets. Add your favourite audio system to your checklist 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 search out particular rooms and activations and far more.
b. Schedule
This 12 months’s schedule can be obtainable on app.devcon.org. Considered one of Devcon’s neighborhood initiatives comes from Swarm, which can host the agenda (& later convention movies) in a decentralized manner on Swarm and Etherna!
In case you want a hand with discovering a room (or the rest at Devcon), you’ll be able to at all times ask our volunteers (you’ll acknowledge them by their shirts).
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 plenty of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Test it out right here
The information covers every little thing 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 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 facet 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 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 obtainable.
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 affordable 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 is likely to 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 may 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 right here.
For any questions concerning 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 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 🦄
