Welcome to Devcon!

That is your Devcon VI Handbook, and it consists of the whole lot you must 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, group efforts at Devcon VI, facet/after occasions, and extra!

Bookmark this tab when you’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 detrimental check result’s wanted for entry.

Please inform your self right here, or use your property 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 generally they don’t, however play it protected 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.

Verify-Mig

Between 24 hours and 1 hour earlier than departure, you have to fill out the ‘Verify-Mig’ type, accessible on the Migración Colombia web site. You’ll obtain a affirmation e mail to current upon arrival in Colombia.

Security 👷‍♀️

A neighborhood 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 frequent sense whereas in Bogotá. Meaning:

• Look the place you’re going, being conscious of the world round you relatively than getting misplaced in your telephone’s display.
• 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 telephone out or along with your laptop computer when not essential
• It’s an enormous metropolis, so go away these valuables (passport, extra money/playing cards) at your resort
• Use Uber or DiDi, the place a 20-min experience prices round $3 USD. Keep away from hailing road taxis in favor of one thing with a status/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” (really useful when coming from the Airport)
• Attempt to not stroll house alone at night time (Reminder: Trip 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. Nevertheless, you shouldn’t neglect your jackets and raincoats, as rain showers occur!

The place to remain in Bogotá? 🏠

We’ve got 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 examine journey instances between potential-stays and the convention middle

Web3 Journey reserving 🏨

For those who haven’t booked your keep but, try one of many group initiatives round Devcon: Windingtree is a platform the place you’ll be able to ebook 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!

Forex change 💶

The foreign money is the Colombian Peso (COP). You’ll be able to change money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.

You’ll be able to examine change charges right here.

Translation apps 📱

We suggest Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.

II. Transit 🚙

Most attendees shall be touchdown quickly, and we wish to just remember to’re capable of simply navigate towards the Devcon venue.

The vast majority of people will arrive at Bogotá’s airport, El Dorado Worldwide Airport (BOG). From there, there are just a few simple 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. For those who order an Uber Consolation, it can choose you up on the second ground ‘Arrivals’ degree of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.

There shall 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 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 (when 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 “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 shall 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 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: Make certain to have some cell 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 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 observe the Wi-Fi tips offered 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 geared up venue, just some minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.

We’ve got quite a few distinctive actions and areas for everybody to stay up for each inside and outdoors 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 area with their Colombian “Chiva” bus. You will discover the colourful truck parked within the Devcon venue, within the exterior 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 shall be a program with breaks daily from 11AM to 9PM.

Discover this system, introductions to all artists, and extra particulars concerning the Chiva Lounge right here.

Through the day there shall be tender 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 relatively cool nights of Bogotá.

Artwork at Devcon 🎨

Rituals, shamanism, magic, and thriller spring to mind in Latin America’s id. Coding, hacking, and expertise at giant 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 affect of their artwork whereas taking a essential 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 look at the work of 13 chosen artists in addition to dwell performances and interactive installations.

Hacker Basement 🕵️‍♀️

The hacker basement shall be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the correct circumstances for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to be taught, or to hack on new concepts in a bunch.

Every thing a hacker wants shall be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, after all, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the correct temper to construct!

Guide a gathering room 👥

Assembly rooms of varied sizes shall be accessible within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re situated on the fifth ground and shall be reservable on a first-come-first-serve foundation in the beginning of every day.

“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝

For the primary time in Devcon historical past, we’re protecting 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 offer an area for continued collaboration, dwell music, recreation nights, a Completely happy Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!

Talk about and counsel group actions on the Froum.

You will discover an outline of Devcon After Darkish actions right here. Keep in mind that this program continues to be a Work-in-Progress and extra objects shall be added over time!

This 12 months, we wish to foster collaboration, networking, change, creativity, creation, experimentation and rest via 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 shall be six completely different hubs, all specializing in vital and related matters with their very own curated program, thrilling issues to be taught 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
• Momentary Nameless Zone
• Ladies Leaders in Web3
• Zero Information Neighborhood

Treasure Hunt 🏆

“No Time to DAI” is a story-based treasure hunt problem distributed via Devcon (and past) in Bogota. Gamers can interact with a browser-based cell pockets dapp, which is able to maintain monitor 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 in an effort to win. A whole bunch of ETH is hidden all through the sport, proper there for the taking over 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 in your carbon dioxide emissions created by attending Devcon.

Upon getting into a departure airport the dapp calculates your flight emissions and provides it to the estimated occasion emission per particular person. 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 permits you to vote on which nature conservation challenge to retire carbon credit from. May or not it’s the Indigneous Reservation of the Matavén Forest in Colombia…?

You’ll be able to offset your flight and get the POAP right here!

This work has resulted from over 2 years of group dialogue and implementation of DIP-17 which was primarily based on DIP-1 and DIP-12.

For more information, see the FAQ right here.

Cryptomurals 🖼

CRYPTOMURALS goals to protect the cultural heritage of the very 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 be capable to unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that shall be air-dropped among the many ones who completed the three spots.
Individuals can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be part of the mission to develop into a road artwork hunter via the CM web site.

Ticket attestations / Minting distinctive NFT 🎟

This 12 months, in collaboration with Good 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 tackle being made public. You may as well mint a memento NFT!
For extra info go to the Devcon web site, try the FAQ in addition to different details about Bogotá and the Devcon programming!

Impression Cubicles 🌤

In previous years, cubicles have solely been accessible to groups with giant budgets which are capable of 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 embrace consumer groups, many teams working to enhance Ethereum’s infrastructure, public items efforts, rollup initiatives, and chosen different high-impact initiatives.

You will see 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 shall 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 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’ll 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 an entire re-lift so as to add info associated to all issues Devcon expertise. As well as the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Internet App) goes dwell at app.devcon.org. Make sure you set up the PWA in your telephone and create an account to be sure to have the freshest info and a customized agenda that you would be able to share with your folks and colleagues.

The passport could be signed in by way of e mail or you’ll be able to merely Sign up 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 data associated to the venue map, the place to search out particular rooms and activations and way more.

b. Web3 video archive and occasion agenda by Swarm community and Etherna

Web3 Devcon Agenda
Right here you will discover a web3 model of the Devcon Agenda hosted on the Swarm community, a decentralized knowledge storage and distribution expertise.

Web3 video internet hosting

The Devcon video archive shall be accessible on Etherna, a web3 decentralized video platform utilizing the Swarm community as storage, along with the present video internet hosting choices.

c. Cannot discover a room?

For those who want a hand with discovering a room (or anything at Devcon), you’ll be able to 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 a complete 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 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’ll be able to anticipate 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! Take a look at the Colombia Blockchain Week schedule for a schedule!

Co-Work Area After Devcon 💻

In want of a spot to compensate for work after the push of all 4 convention days?

The venue shall 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 quick flight away lies Medellin, Bogotá’s hotter and extra touristic neighbor. An incredible 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 numerous conferences.
ETHMedellin 🇨🇴 — Oct 18-22
Only one week after ETHMedellin and an inexpensive one-hour flight, ETHPanama shall 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 perhaps 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 workers on the venue on-site in case of emergencies.
You may as well 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 concerning 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! 🗞

Comply with Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon

Be a part of our official Telegram group 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 🦄