Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Guide, and it consists of every part it’s essential to 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 for those who’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 unfavorable check result’s wanted to enter Colombia.
Please inform your self right here, or use your private home nation’s embassy web page as necessities may 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 in your returning flights to enter Colombia. They often ask for it, and typically they don’t, however play it secure and guide your journeys accordingly.
Professional tip: Some journey websites like Priceline make it simple to guide 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 need to fill out the ‘Test-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 frequent sense whereas in Bogotá. Which means:
Look the place you’re going, being conscious of the world round you relatively 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 mandatory
It’s an enormous metropolis, so go away these valuables (passport, extra money/playing cards) at your lodge
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 repute/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” _(really helpful 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. Nonetheless, you shouldn’t overlook 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 instances between potential-stays and the convention middle
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
In the event you haven’t booked your keep but, try one of many neighborhood initiatives round Devcon: Windingtree is a platform the place you possibly can guide lodges 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). Maintain an adapter with you, if wanted!
Foreign money 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 right here.
Translation apps 📱
We advocate Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees will probably be touchdown quickly, and we need to just be sure you’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 a couple of simple methods to achieve the Agora Bogotá Conference Middle, 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 the event you order an Uber Consolation, it should choose you up on the second ground ‘Arrivals’ degree of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There will probably be a Devcon logistics crew 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 (for those who 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 Middle
Registration “Must Know”
- Earlier than you arrive, you MUST redeem your code for a ticket QR and obtain the PDF to your system 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 will probably 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 make sure that you’ve got 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: Be certain to have some cell 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 Information 📶
We may have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this yr! Nonetheless as at all times, offering good Wi-Fi for hundreds of individuals is difficult. 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 Middle 🙏
The Agora is a contemporary and absolutely 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 lot of distinctive actions and areas for everybody to stay 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 house with their Colombian “Chiva” bus. You will discover the colourful truck parked within the Devcon venue, within the outdoors house on the first ground.
Music Stage 🎸
Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other neighborhood initiative – is awaiting you. There will probably be a program with breaks day by day from 11AM to 9PM.
Throughout the day there will probably be tender jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you possibly can anticipate some principal acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the relatively 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 come to mind in Latin America’s identification. Coding, hacking, and know-how at massive have change 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 boost the affect of their artwork whereas taking a essential imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally searching for modern options to recuperate & re-scale our relationship with nature and the cosmos.
We invite you to go to the _Hacker Basement_ to look at the work of 13 chosen artists in addition to stay performances and interactive installations.
Hacker Basement 🕵️♀️
The hacker basement will probably be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the suitable situations for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to study, or to hack on new concepts in a gaggle.
The whole lot a hacker wants will probably be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, in fact, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the suitable temper to construct!
Ebook a gathering room 👥
Assembly rooms of varied sizes will probably be obtainable within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re positioned on the fifth ground and will probably 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 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 supply an area for continued collaboration, stay music, sport nights, a Completely happy Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Talk about and recommend neighborhood actions on the Froum.
We’ll put up a whole schedule quickly.
Neighborhood Hubs 👾
Neighborhood Hubs are devoted areas, wherein 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, focus on and show content material of their alternative, we pave the way in which for a extra decentralized and community-driven Devcon.
You possibly can think about Neighborhood Hubs like stalls, or cubicles at a good, however in all probability a bit larger and, very importantly, with out the product advertising!
Meet this yr’s Neighborhood Hubs:
- Crypto Economics & Governance
- Design Neighborhood Hub
- ETHLatAm Neighborhood Chiva Chillout
- ReGen Hub
- Short-term Nameless Zone
- Ladies Leaders in Web3
- Zero Data 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 interact with a browser-based cell pockets dapp, which is able to preserve observe of all gamers’ progress on-chain.
To play, you 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 in 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 solely on-chain.
It’s possible you’ll instantly mint a particular POAP for collaborating within the Devcon neighborhood offset.
After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally means that you can vote on which nature conservation undertaking to retire carbon credit from. May 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 will probably be obtainable quickly.
Cryptomurals 🖼
CRYPTOMURALS goals to protect the cultural heritage of one of the best 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 individuals will be capable of unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that will probably 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 change into a avenue artwork hunter by means of the CM web site.
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 supply 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 web site, try 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 massive budgets which are in a position to pay for sponsorship packages. This yr, we reserved cubicles for groups with excessive affect 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 Affect 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 improvement). EF will probably be collaborating on this effort too!
Our crew 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 🥗
Anticipate 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 Net 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 Net App) goes stay at app.devcon.org. Remember to set up the PWA in your cellphone and create an account to be sure you have the hottest data and a customized agenda you can share with your pals and colleagues.
The passport could be signed in through e mail or you possibly can merely Register 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 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 far more.
b. Schedule
This yr’s schedule will probably be obtainable on app.devcon.org. Certainly one of Devcon’s neighborhood initiatives comes from Swarm, which is able to host the agenda (& later convention movies) in a decentralized manner on Swarm and Etherna!
In the event you want a hand with discovering a room (or anything at Devcon), you possibly can at all times ask our volunteers (you’ll acknowledge them by their shirts).
Don’t overlook 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 crew has put collectively a Metropolis Information on a variety of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Test it out right here
The information covers every part from methods to get round, to security, areas that you will need 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. An enormous due to the superb neighborhood for placing a lot devoted work into organizing facet 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 will probably 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 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 probably be happening in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be a part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum neighborhood, and there simply may 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 may 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 out there right here.
For any questions relating to the Code of Conduct, or to make a report/file a grievance, contact a workers 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 neighborhood 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 crew 🦄