Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Handbook, and it contains all the things you have to learn 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, group efforts at Devcon VI, aspect/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 😷
A COVID-19 Vaccination (two [2] doses of a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or one [1] dose of a J&J Vaccine), or a damaging 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 would possibly change. Additionally, bear in mind that your airline or transit firm might need further necessities.
Coming into the nation 🇨🇴
Return flight
You’ll want to indicate a ticket in your returning flights to enter Colombia. They generally ask for it, and typically they don’t, however play it secure 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.
Verify-Mig
Between 24 hours and 1 hour earlier than departure, you have to fill out the ‘Verify-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 primarily means, don’t make your self an apparent goal: use widespread sense whereas in Bogotá. Which means:
Look the place you’re going, being conscious of the world round you moderately than getting misplaced in your cellphone’s display screen.
Don’t put on flashy objects 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 vital
It’s a giant metropolis, so go away these valuables (passport, extra money/playing cards) at your lodge
Use Uber or DiDi, the place a 20-min journey prices round $3 USD. Keep away from hailing avenue taxis in favor of one thing with a repute/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 evening (Reminder: Journey 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 Metropolis Information. Chapinero, Parkway / La Soledad, and La Candelaria are good areas, however all the time test journey occasions between potential-stays and the convention middle
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
In case you haven’t booked your keep but, take a look at one of many group initiatives round Devcon: Windingtree is a platform the place you possibly can ebook resorts 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 Sort A (two pins) and Sort 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 test trade charges right here.
Translation apps 📱
We suggest Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees can be touchdown quickly, and we need to just be sure you’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 straightforward methods to succeed in the Agora Bogotá Conference Middle, 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. In case you order an Uber Consolation, it can decide you up on the second ground ‘Arrivals’ stage of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There can 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’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 (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 Conference Middle
Registration “Have to 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 should be picked up at registration. Don’t lose your wristband — it won’t get replaced.
- Swag can 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’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 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 Data 📶
We can have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this yr! Nevertheless as all the time, offering excellent Wi-Fi for hundreds of individuals is difficult. 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 Middle 🙏
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 have now a variety of distinctive actions and areas for everybody to sit up for each inside and out of doors 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 exterior house on the first ground.
Music Stage 🎸
Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other group initiative – is awaiting you. There can be a program with breaks on daily basis from 11AM to 9PM.
Through the day there can be smooth jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you possibly can anticipate some foremost acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the moderately cool nights of Bogotá.
You will discover 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 id. Coding, hacking, and expertise at massive have grow to be 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 boost the affect of their artwork whereas taking a important imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally in search of revolutionary 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 can be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the appropriate circumstances for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to study, or to hack on new concepts in a bunch.
Every 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 appropriate temper to construct!
Ebook 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 at first of every day.
“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝
For the primary time in Devcon historical past, we’re retaining 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, recreation nights, a Comfortable Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Focus on and counsel group actions on the Froum.
We are going to publish a whole schedule quickly.
Neighborhood Hubs 👾
Neighborhood Hubs are devoted areas, through which chosen group 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 most likely a bit greater and, very importantly, with out the product advertising and marketing!
Meet this yr’s Neighborhood Hubs:
- Crypto Economics & Governance
- Design Neighborhood Hub
- ETHLatAm Neighborhood Chiva Chillout
- ReGen Hub
- Non permanent Nameless Zone
- Ladies Leaders in Web3
- Zero Data 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 cell pockets dapp, which is able to maintain observe of all gamers’ progress on-chain.
To play, you have 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 information is useful.
Superior and/or aggressive gamers should keep forward of the time curve with the intention to win. Tons of 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 group 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 individual. All transactions happen completely on-chain.
It’s possible you’ll instantly mint a particular POAP for collaborating within the Devcon group offset.
After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally permits you to 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…?
This work has resulted from over 2 years of group 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 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 of unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that can be air-dropped among the many ones who achieved the three spots.
Individuals can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be a part of the mission to grow to be a avenue artwork hunter by 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 provide unique “permissionless perks” to Devcon attendees with out your pockets handle being made public. You may also mint a memento NFT!
For extra data go to the Devcon web site, take a look at the FAQ in addition to different details about Bogotá and the Devcon programming!
Impression Cubicles 🌤
In previous years, cubicles have solely been obtainable to groups with massive budgets which can be capable of 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 consumer groups, many teams working to enhance Ethereum’s infrastructure, public items efforts, rollup tasks, and chosen different high-impact tasks.
You will discover the Impression 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 collaborating on this effort too!
Our crew 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 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 cellphone and create an account to be sure you have the freshest data and a customized agenda you can share with your mates and colleagues.
The passport could be signed in by way of e mail or you possibly can merely Sign up along with your web3 pockets. Add your favourite audio system to your listing to see all of the classes 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 search out particular rooms and activations and rather more.
b. Schedule
This yr’s schedule can be obtainable on app.devcon.org. One among Devcon’s group initiatives comes from Swarm, which is able to host the agenda (& later convention movies) in a decentralized means on Swarm and Etherna!
In case you want a hand with discovering a room (or anything at Devcon), you possibly can all the time 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 whole lot of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Test it out right here
The information covers all the things 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 group occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be taking place round Devcon. A giant due to the superb group for placing a lot devoted work into organizing aspect 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 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 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 group for per 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 going down in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be a part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum group, 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 normal line): Tel: 123
Metropolitan Police: Tel: 112
We can have medical employees on the venue on-site in case of emergencies.
You may also contact emergency@devcon.org.
Code of Conduct 👔
Please keep in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is obtainable right here.
For any questions relating to the Code of Conduct, or to make a report/file a grievance, contact a employees member or a volunteer.
Keep updated with the newest information! 🗞
Observe Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon
Be a part of our official Telegram group 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 crew 🦄