Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Guide, and it consists of every little thing it is advisable learn 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, facet/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 destructive check result’s wanted for entry.
Please inform your self 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 further necessities.
Coming into the nation 🇨🇴
Return flight
You’ll want to indicate a ticket to your returning flights to enter Colombia. They generally ask for it, and typically they don’t, however play it secure 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 will need to 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 👷♀️
A neighborhood 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 telephone’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 telephone out or along with your laptop computer when not vital
- It’s an enormous 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 avenue taxis in favor of one thing with a popularity/ranking 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” (beneficial when coming from the Airport)
- Attempt to not stroll house alone at evening (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 overlook 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 all the time examine journey occasions between potential-stays and the convention heart
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
In case 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 may 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 Sort A (two pins) and Sort B (three pins). Maintain 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 examine trade charges here.
Translation apps 📱
We advocate Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees will likely be touchdown quickly, and we need to just remember to’re capable of simply navigate towards the Devcon venue.
Nearly all of people will arrive at Bogotá’s airport, El Dorado Worldwide Airport (BOG). From there, there are a number of straightforward methods to succeed in 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 case you order an Uber Consolation, it is going to decide you up on the second flooring ‘Arrivals’ stage of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There will likely 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 (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 may 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 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: Make 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 Data 📶
We can have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this 12 months! Nevertheless as all the time, offering good Wi-Fi for hundreds of individuals is hard. Please be respectful and comply with the Wi-Fi tips supplied 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 outfitted venue, only a few minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.
We have now numerous distinctive actions and areas for everybody to sit up for each inside and out of doors the primary 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 house with their Colombian “Chiva” bus. You’ll 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 will likely be a program with breaks on daily basis from 11AM to 9PM.
Discover this system, introductions to all artists, and more details about the Chiva Lounge here.
Throughout the day there will likely be tender jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you may anticipate some major 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 massive have develop 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 exhibits the work of digital & digital Latin artists who implement blockchain to reinforce the influence of their artwork whereas taking a essential imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally on the lookout for revolutionary options to get better & 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 likely be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the proper circumstances for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to study, or to hack on new concepts in a gaggle.
Every little thing 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!
Ebook 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 firstly of every day.
“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝
For the primary time in Devcon historical past, we’re retaining 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, stay music, sport nights, a Completely satisfied Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Talk about and counsel neighborhood actions on the Froum.
You’ll 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 will likely be added over time!
This 12 months, we need to foster collaboration, networking, trade, creativity, creation, experimentation and rest by way 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 necessary and related subjects with their very own curated program, thrilling issues to study and to expertise. You’ll find the Neighborhood Hubs space on Ground 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 way of Devcon (and past) in Bogota. Gamers can interact with a browser-based cell pockets dapp, which can maintain observe of all gamers’ progress on-chain.
To play, you will need 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 to be able to win. Tons of 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 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 solely on-chain.
Chances are 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 mission 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 primarily based on DIP-1 and DIP-12.
For more information, see the FAQ here.
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 can create an NFT that will likely be air-dropped among the many ones who achieved the three spots.
Folks can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be a part of the mission to develop into a avenue artwork hunter by way 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 too can 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!
Influence Cubicles 🌤
In previous years, cubicles have solely been obtainable to groups with massive budgets which can be capable of pay for sponsorship packages. This 12 months, we reserved cubicles for groups with excessive influence 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 initiatives, and chosen different high-impact initiatives.
One can 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 will likely 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 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 are going to attempt to all the time 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 stay at app.devcon.org. Remember to set up the PWA in your telephone and create an account to ensure you have the freshest data and a customized agenda that you would be able to share with your mates and colleagues.
The passport will be signed in through electronic mail or you may merely Register along 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 primarily based in your wants, and pursuits. Discover all the knowledge 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 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?
In case you 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 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 lots of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Check it out here
The information covers every little 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 Facet Occasions 👯
You possibly can anticipate 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 atone 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 amazing 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 will likely 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 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 can have medical workers on the venue on-site in case of emergencies.
You too can contact emergency@devcon.org.
Code of Conduct 👔
Please bear in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is on the market here.
For any questions concerning the Code of Conduct, or to make a report/file a criticism, contact a workers member or a volunteer.
Keep updated with the most recent information! 🗞
Comply with Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon
Be part of our official Telegram community 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 crew 🦄
