Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Handbook, and it contains the whole lot it’s worthwhile to find out about Devcon, the environment and extra. Learn carefully 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, 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 unfavourable check result’s wanted for entry.
Please inform your self here, or use your property nation’s embassy web page as necessities would possibly change. Additionally, bear in mind that your airline or transit firm may need extra necessities.
Coming into the nation 🇨🇴
Return flight
You’ll want to indicate a ticket to your returning flights to enter Colombia. They often 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 simple 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 have to fill out the ‘Check-Mig’ form, accessible 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 fairly than getting misplaced in your telephone’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 together with your telephone out or together with your laptop computer when not mandatory
- 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 road taxis in favor of one thing with a status/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” (advisable when coming from the Airport)
- Strive to not stroll dwelling 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. Nonetheless, you shouldn’t neglect your jackets and raincoats, as rain showers occur!
The place to remain in Bogotá? 🏠
We now have 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 test journey instances between potential-stays and the convention middle
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
When 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 may ebook resorts 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 Kind A (two pins) and Kind B (three pins). Maintain an adapter with you, if wanted!
Forex alternate 💶
The forex is the Colombian Peso (COP). You may alternate money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.
You may test alternate charges here.
Translation apps 📱
We suggest Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees will likely be touchdown quickly, and we wish 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 number of simple methods to succeed in 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. When you order an Uber Consolation, it should decide you up on the second ground ‘Arrivals’ stage of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There will likely 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 (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 system 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 will likely 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 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 cellular knowledge accessible 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 could have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this 12 months! Nonetheless as all the time, offering good Wi-Fi for hundreds of individuals is hard. Please be respectful and observe the Wi-Fi tips 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, just some minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.
We now have numerous distinctive actions and areas for everybody to stay up for each inside and out of doors the principle 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 area with their Colombian “Chiva” bus. You will discover the colourful truck parked within the Devcon venue, within the outdoors area on the first ground.
Music Stage 🎸 & Chiva Lounge 🪩
Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other group initiative – is awaiting you. There will likely 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.
In the course of the day there will likely be tender jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you may count on some principal acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the fairly 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 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 reveals the work of digital & digital Latin artists who implement blockchain to reinforce the affect of their artwork whereas taking a important imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally on the lookout 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 reside 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 fitting 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 likely be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, in fact, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the fitting temper to construct!
Guide a gathering room 👥
Assembly rooms of varied sizes will likely be accessible within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re situated on the fifth ground and will likely 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 an alternative 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, sport nights, a Blissful Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Talk about and counsel group actions on the Froum.
You will discover an summary of Devcon After Darkish actions here. Keep in mind that this program continues to be a Work-in-Progress and extra objects will likely be added over time!
This 12 months, we wish to foster collaboration, networking, alternate, creativity, creation, experimentation and rest by means of numerous areas devoted particularly to that.
Neighborhood Hubs are a reserved area on the Devcon venue powered by the group for the group. 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 Devcon.
There will likely 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 will discover 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 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 have interaction with a browser-based cellular pockets dapp, which can maintain 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. 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 group initiative, “Local weather Pleasant Devcon VI Dapp” allows you to 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.
You could instantly mint a particular POAP for taking part within the Devcon group offset.
After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally means that you can vote on which nature conservation challenge to retire carbon credit from. Might it’s the Indigneous Reservation of the Matavén Forest in Colombia…?
You may offset your flight and get the POAP here!
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.
For more information, see the FAQ here.
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 in the course of the 4 days of Devcon, the place individuals will have the ability to unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that will likely be air-dropped among the many ones who completed the three spots.
Individuals can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be a part of the mission to grow to be a road artwork hunter by means 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. It’s also possible to 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 accessible to groups with massive budgets which might be in a position to pay for sponsorship packages. This 12 months, 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 tasks, and chosen different high-impact tasks.
You’ll find 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 Round @ Devcon, to Gitcoin, CLR.Fund’s open grants, and to the Protocol Guild (which supported core Ethereum analysis and improvement). EF will likely be taking part on this effort too!
Our staff 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 all the time 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 an entire re-lift so as to add data associated to all issues Devcon expertise. As well as the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Net App) goes reside at app.devcon.org. Make sure you set up the PWA in your telephone and create an account to ensure you have the freshest data and a customized agenda that you could share with your pals and colleagues.
The passport may be signed in through e-mail or you may merely Check in together 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 data associated to the venue map, the place to seek 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 will likely be accessible 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?
When 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 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 staff has put collectively a Metropolis Information on lots of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Check it out here
The information covers the whole lot from methods to get round, to security, areas that you will wish to see and/or keep round. See an included FAQ on vaccinations, meals, language and extra!
Devcon Facet Occasions 👯
You may count on many group occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be occurring round Devcon. An enormous due to the superb group 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 make amends for work after the frenzy 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 area for collaboration accessible.
ETH Medellin & ETH Panama ♦️
A bus-ride or brief flight away lies Medellin, Bogotá’s hotter and extra touristic neighbor. An ideal excuse to increase your journey or journey is to unite with the Ethereum Medellin group for every week of open co-working, night occasions, and numerous conferences.
ETHMedellin 🇨🇴 — Oct 18-22
Only one week after ETHMedellin and an inexpensive one-hour flight, ETHPanama will likely be going down in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be a part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum group, 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 could have medical workers on the venue on-site in case of emergencies.
It’s also possible to contact emergency@devcon.org.
Code of Conduct 👔
Please keep in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is accessible 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 newest information! 🗞
Observe Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon
Be a 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 🦄
