The Devcon VI Manual

Welcome to Devcon!

This is your Devcon VI Manual, and it includes everything you request to cognize astir Devcon, the surroundings and more. Read intimately arsenic we screen things to beryllium alert of earlier departure, during transit to the venue from Bogotá’s planetary airdrome El Dorado, and accusation related to pre-registration dates, assemblage efforts astatine Devcon VI, side/after events, and more!

Bookmark this tab if you’re heading to Devcon, and we can’t hold to spot you each soon.

I. Arriving successful Bogotá 🛬

To footwear things off, let's commencement with the archetypal steps erstwhile arriving successful Bogotá.

Covid requirements 😷

Vaccination oregon a antagonistic trial effect is needed for entry.

Please pass yourself here, oregon usage your location country’s embassy leafage arsenic requirements mightiness change. Also, beryllium alert that your hose oregon transit institution mightiness person further requirements.

Entering the state 🇨🇴

Return flight

You’ll request to amusement a summons for your returning flights to participate Colombia. They sometimes inquire for it, and sometimes they don’t, but play it harmless and publication your trips accordingly.

Pro tip: Some question sites similar Priceline marque it casual to publication a formation and past cancel wrong 24 hours for a afloat refund, successful lawsuit plans change.

Check-Mig

Between 24 hours and 1 hr earlier departure, you indispensable capable retired the ‘Check-Mig’ form, disposable connected the Migración Colombia website. You volition person a confirmation email to contiguous upon accomplishment successful Colombia.

Safety 👷‍♀️

A section look successful Bogotá is: "No dar papaya" = "Don't springiness papaya (to thieves)". It fundamentally means, don’t marque yourself an evident target: usage communal consciousness portion successful Bogotá. That means:

• Look wherever you’re going, being alert of the satellite astir you alternatively than getting mislaid successful your phone’s screen.
• Don’t deterioration flashy items similar costly watches, oregon those gold-plated hardware wallets and loudly branded crypto-swag
• Don’t locomotion astir with your telephone retired oregon with your laptop erstwhile not necessary
• It’s a large city, truthful permission those valuables (passport, excess cash/cards) astatine your hotel
• Use Uber oregon DiDi, wherever a 20-min thrust costs astir $3 USD. Avoid hailing thoroughfare taxis successful favour of thing with a reputation/rating system, an lucifer those plates to what you spot successful the app, arsenic always.
• Tip: possibly wage the other dollar for a nicer “Uber Comfort” (recommended erstwhile coming from the Airport)
• Try not to locomotion location unsocial astatine nighttime (Reminder: Ride Sharing is casual & cheap)

Weather ☀️

At an altitude of 2,600m, the somesthesia successful Bogotá hovers betwixt 9° - 18° C (or 48° - 65° F) without excessively overmuch wind. However, you should not hide your jackets and raincoats, arsenic rainfall showers happen!

Where to enactment successful Bogotá? 🏠

We person immoderate recommendations connected areas adjacent to the venue successful our Bogotá City Guide. Chapinero, Parkway / La Soledad, and La Candelaria are bully areas, but ever cheque question times betwixt potential-stays and the league center

Web3 Travel booking 🏨

If you haven’t booked your enactment yet, cheque retired 1 of the assemblage initiatives astir Devcon: Windingtree is simply a level wherever you tin publication hotels successful Bogotá with stablecoins.

To get your archetypal web3 question experience, delight read their guide oregon inquire immoderate question connected the Windingtree Discord:discord.gg/MTYEm2BfWS.

Electricity 🔌

In Colombia, outlets and sockets are Type A (two pins) and Type B (three pins). Keep an adapter with you, if needed!

Currency speech 💶

The currency is the Colombian Peso (COP). You tin speech currency oregon retreat from ATMs astatine the Airport.

You tin cheque speech rates here.

Translation apps 📱

We urge Spanish Dict, DeepL, oregon Google Translate.

II. Transit 🚙

Most attendees volition beryllium landing soon, and we privation to marque definite that you're capable to easy navigate toward the Devcon venue.

The bulk of folks volition get astatine Bogotá’s airport, El Dorado International Airport (BOG). From there, determination are a fewer casual ways to scope the Agora Bogotá Convention Center, wherever Devcon volition instrumentality place.

We urge utilizing Uber and ordering an “Uber Comfort” oregon cabify from the airdrome to the spot wherever you volition stay. Ubers are inexpensive and the safest signifier of transit. If you bid an Uber Comfort, it volition prime you up connected the 2nd level ‘Arrivals’ level of the Airport, 2nd lane, astatine the doorway you choose.

There volition beryllium a Devcon logistics squad astatine the airdrome to assistance usher you opening connected October 8th. You volition beryllium capable to admit them by their covering (which we volition stock much soon).

III. Devcon Registration 📝

a. Pre-Registration 🧾

Optionally, skip the enactment connected Day-1 by registering beforehand, and person your wristband, SIM paper (if you request one), and POAP earlier things adjacent kick-off!!

Pre-registration dates and places are:

Saturday, October 8th

— Hilton Bogotá Corferias: 12pm - 5pm

Sunday, October 9th

— Hilton Bogotá Corferias: 9am - 5pm

— Hyatt Place Bogotá: 9am - 5pm

Monday, October 10th

— Hilton Bogotá Corferias: 8am - 5pm

— Hyatt Place Bogotá: 8am - 5pm

— Schelling Point @ Gran Carpa Américas Corferias: 8:30am - 5pm

— ETHLatam @ Ágora Bogotá: 8am - 9pm

b. DOORS OPEN: On-site Registration 🥳

DOORS: October 11th @ 8:00AM**

OPENING CEREMONY: October 11th @ 9:30AM

PROGRAMMING: Each time astatine 10:00AM

DEVCON VENUE: Agora Bogotá Convention Center

Registration “Need to Know”

• Before you arrive, you MUST redeem your codification for a summons QR and download the PDF to your instrumentality oregon people it successful advance.
• Wristbands are required for introduction and indispensable beryllium picked up astatine registration. Do not suffer your wristband --- it volition not beryllium replaced.
• Swag volition beryllium distributed wrong the venue during Devcon. Paid add-on Sweatshirts tin besides beryllium picked up then.
• For each on-chain auction and raffle ticketeers, delight guarantee that you've redeemed your tickets.

c. Internet and SIM Cards 💻

We volition supply free SIM cards for each attendees, first-come-first-serve! They volition beryllium valid for 15 days oregon 20 GB, whichever comes first.

You volition person the sim cards astatine registration and pre-registration.

TIP: Make definite to person immoderate mobile information disposable for erstwhile arriving astatine the airport, to get an Uber to your accommodation. Bogotá airdrome wifi is escaped for 30 minutes.

Wi-Fi Info 📶

We volition person upgraded Wi-Fi astatine Devcon this year! However arsenic always, providing cleanable Wi-Fi for thousands of radical is tricky. Please beryllium respectful and travel the Wi-Fi guidelines provided successful the Code of Conduct.

Wi-Fi name: DevconBogota

Wi-Fi password: runafullnode

IV. Venue and Experiences 🏢

a. Welcome to the Agora Bogotá Convention Center 🙏

The Agora is simply a modern and afloat equipped venue, conscionable a fewer minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado International Airport and from the historical Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.

We person a fig of unsocial activities and spaces for everyone to look guardant to some wrong and extracurricular the main venue, including a packed docket connected stages of each sizes, a wide assortment of nutrient options, and different experiences.

Let's commencement with those experiences!

POAP 🏆

Snag your collectible ERC-721 token astatine registration to beryllium your attendance astatine Devcon!

Colombian Chiva 🚌

All the Ethereum communities successful LATAM are agreed to stock however Ethereum has been impacting communities astir Latin America. The ETH LATAM and ETH Colombia communities volition make a vibrant abstraction with their Colombian “Chiva” bus. You tin find the colorful motortruck parked successful the Devcon venue, successful the extracurricular abstraction connected the 1st floor.

Music Stage 🎸 & Chiva Lounge 🪩

Next to the Chiva bus, the euphony signifier - different assemblage inaugural - is awaiting you. There volition beryllium a programme with breaks every time from 11AM to 9PM.

Find the program, introductions to each artists, and more details astir the Chiva Lounge here.

During the time determination volition beryllium brushed jamming, dependable healing, and soundless DJing. In the evening aft 5PM you tin expect immoderate main acts with section drinks and DJs to lukewarm you up successful the alternatively chill nights of Bogotá.

Art astatine Devcon 🎨

Rituals, shamanism, magic, and enigma are evoked successful Latin America's identity. Coding, hacking, and exertion astatine ample person go tools for caller generations to decode and recreate Latin America's integer narrative.

“RITUALES - Latinamerica decoded” is an NFT accumulation astatine Devcon that shows the enactment of integer & physics Latin artists who instrumentality blockchain to heighten the interaction of their creation portion taking a captious imaginativeness of their context, besides looking for innovative solutions to retrieve & re-scale our narration with quality and the cosmos.

We invitation you to sojourn the _Hacker Basement_ to ticker the enactment of 13 selected artists arsenic good arsenic unrecorded performances and interactive installations.

Hacker Basement 🕵️‍♀️

The hacker basement volition beryllium your high-focus portion distant from the engaged league happenings. It sets the close conditions for an idiosyncratic to trial caller dapps connected their laptop, to learn, oregon to hack connected caller ideas successful a group.

Everything a hacker needs volition beryllium taken attraction of: cozy seating, electricity, internet, and, of course, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you successful the close temper to build!

Book a gathering country 👥

Meeting rooms of assorted sizes volition beryllium disposable successful the venue connected league days 2, 3, and 4. They are located connected the 5th level and volition beryllium reservable connected a first-come-first-serve ground astatine the commencement of each day.

“Devcon After Dark” 🌝

For the archetypal clip successful Devcon history, we are keeping the venue open late. Instead of ushering each attendees retired of the gathering astatine 5PM sharp, we are leaving the venue unfastened until 11PM to supply a abstraction for continued collaboration, unrecorded music, crippled nights, a Happy Hour each time from 6-8 PM & more!

Discuss and suggest assemblage activities connected the Froum.

You tin find an overview of Devcon After Dark activities here. Bear successful caput that this programme is inactive a Work-in-Progress and much items volition beryllium added implicit time!

This year, we privation to foster collaboration, networking, exchange, creativity, creation, experimentation and relaxation done assorted spaces dedicated particularly to that.

Community Hubs are a reserved abstraction astatine the Devcon venue powered by the assemblage for the community. By enabling a fistful of communities to create, sermon and show contented of their choice, we pave the mode for a much decentralized Devcon.

There volition beryllium six antithetic hubs, each focusing connected important and applicable topics with their ain curated program, breathtaking things to larn and to experience. You tin find the Community Hubs country connected Floor 1!

Meet this year’s Community Hubs:

• Crypto Economics & Governance Hub
• Design Community Hub
• ReGen Hub
• Temporary Anonymous Zone
• Women Leaders successful Web3
• Zero Knowledge Community

Treasure Hunt 🏆

"No Time to DAI" is simply a story-based treasure hunt situation distributed done Devcon (and beyond) successful Bogota. Players tin prosecute with a browser-based mobile wallet dapp, which volition support way of each players' advancement on-chain.

To play, you indispensable find hint #0 successful the devcon venue. Light role-playing is encouraged, curiosity and attraction to item is required, and immoderate crypto cognition is helpful.

Advanced and/or competitory players indispensable enactment up of the clip curve successful bid to win. Hundreds of ETH is hidden passim the game, close determination for the taking connected Görl testnet! Görli ETH required to play.

Players tin inquire for help/hints successful the Discord: https://discord.gg/4PVZzNdsnW

Carbon Offsetting for Devcon VI 🌳

The assemblage initiative, "Climate Friendly Devcon VI Dapp" enables you to compensate for your c dioxide emissions created by attending Devcon.

Upon entering a departure airdrome the dapp calculates your formation emissions and adds it to the estimated lawsuit emanation per person. All transactions hap wholly on-chain.

You whitethorn instantly mint a peculiar POAP for participating successful the Devcon assemblage offset.

After Devcon VI, the POAP besides allows you to ballot connected which quality conservation task to discontinue c credits from. Could it beryllium the Indigneous Reservation of the Matavén Forest successful Colombia...?

You tin offset your formation and get the POAP here!

This enactment has resulted from implicit 2 years of assemblage treatment and implementation of DIP-17 which was based connected DIP-1 and DIP-12.

For much info, spot the FAQ here.

Cryptomurals 🖼

CRYPTOMURALS aims to sphere the taste practice of the champion thoroughfare creation worldwide.

For the archetypal time, CM is hosting the “street creation hunt” during Devcon Bogotá successful concern with DoinGud. They are hosting graffiti tours successful downtown Bogotá during the 4 days of Devcon, wherever radical volition beryllium capable to unlock the precise archetypal 3 cryptomurals that volition make an NFT that volition beryllium air-dropped among the ones who accomplished the 3 spots. People tin subscribe to the Graffiti circuit & articulation the ngo to go a thoroughfare creation huntsman done the CM website.

Ticket attestations / Minting unsocial NFT 🎟

This year, successful collaboration with Smart Token Labs, attendees tin present permissionlessly attest that they were a Devcon VI ticket-holder.

Using this attestation, 3rd parties tin connection exclusive “permissionless perks” to Devcon attendees without your wallet code being made public. You tin besides mint a souvenir NFT! For much accusation sojourn the Devcon website, cheque retired the FAQ arsenic good arsenic different accusation astir Bogotá and the Devcon programming!

Impact Booths 🌤

In past years, booths person lone been disposable to teams with ample budgets that are capable to wage for sponsorship packages. This year, we reserved booths for teams with precocious interaction connected the Ethereum ecosystem, careless of their budgets.

Those teams see lawsuit teams, galore groups moving to amended Ethereum’s infrastructure, nationalist goods efforts, rollup projects, and selected different high-impact projects.

You volition find the Impact Booths successful the lobby connected the 3rd floor.

Public Good Supporters 🌻

We introduced the Devcon Supporter Program successful lieu of accepted sponsorships, and those teams who participated merit peculiar acknowledgment for their contributions to the ETHColombia Quadratic Funding Round @ Devcon, to Gitcoin, CLR.Fund’s unfastened grants, and to the Protocol Guild (which supported halfway Ethereum probe and development). EF volition beryllium participating successful this effort too!

Our squad owes a big THANK YOU to those teams and DAOs that joined our first-ever Supporter Program this twelvemonth without astir benefits expected by sponsors. Their enactment of the Ethereum ecosystem came without things similar reserved seating, astir branding, talker slots, named lawsuit areas and different accepted sponsor-like benefits.

Food 🥗

Expect the nutrient to beryllium a premix of precise section accepted Colombian food, and planetary food.

We volition effort to ever person vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free food, though sadly cannot accommodate all dietary restrictions.

V. Program & Agenda 📆

a. Devcon Web Update & Passport App Launch

For Devcon Bogota Event days http://devcon.org website gets a implicit re-lift to adhd accusation related to each things Devcon experience. In summation the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Web App) goes unrecorded astatine app.devcon.org. Be definite to instal the PWA connected your telephone and make an relationship to marque definite you person the astir up to day accusation and a customized docket that you tin stock with your friends and colleagues.

The passport tin beryllium signed successful via email oregon you tin simply Sign successful with your web3 wallet. Add your favourite speakers to your database to spot each the sessions they are doing easy oregon simply filter based connected your needs, and interests. Find each the accusation related to the venue map, wherever to find circumstantial rooms and activations and overmuch more.

b. Web3 video archive and lawsuit docket by Swarm web and Etherna

Web3 Devcon Agenda Here you tin find a web3 mentation of the Devcon Agenda hosted connected the Swarm network, a decentralized information retention and organisation technology.

Web3 video hosting

The Devcon video archive volition beryllium disposable connected Etherna, a web3 decentralized video level utilizing the Swarm network arsenic storage, successful summation to the existent video hosting offerings.

c. Can't find a room?

If you request a manus with uncovering a country (or thing other astatine Devcon), you tin ever inquire our volunteers (you volition admit them by their shirts).

d. Devcon Week

Don’t hide that Devcon is much than a 4-day conference, but a full Devcon Week! Featuring the ETH Bogotá hackathon, the DAOist, Schellingpoint and more.

VI. Explore Bogotá 🌆

Good news! Our squad has enactment unneurotic a City Guide connected a batch of the must-know details for getting astir bogota. Check it retired here

The usher covers everything from ways to get around, to safety, areas that you'll privation to spot and/or enactment around. See an included FAQ connected vaccinations, food, connection and more!

Devcon Side Events 👯

You tin expect galore assemblage events, meetups, and societal gatherings to beryllium happening astir Devcon. A large acknowledgment to the astonishing assemblage for putting truthful overmuch dedicated enactment into organizing broadside events! Check retired the Colombia Blockchain Week schedule for a schedule!

Co-Work Space After Devcon 💻

In request of a spot to drawback up connected enactment aft the unreserved of each 4 league days?

The venue volition beryllium unfastened for co-working connected Saturday the 15th and Sunday the 16th October.

Entry is FREE for each who person a Devcon ticket, with snacks and abstraction for collaboration available.

ETH Medellin & ETH Panama ♦️

A bus-ride oregon abbreviated formation distant lies Medellin, Bogotá’s warmer and much touristic neighbor. A large excuse to widen your travel oregon question is to unite with the Ethereum Medellin assemblage for a week of unfastened co-working, evening events, and assorted conferences. ETHMedellin 🇨🇴 — Oct 18-22 Just 1 week aft ETHMedellin and a inexpensive one-hour flight, ETHPanama volition beryllium taking spot successful tropical Panama City. Join for immoderate continued learning, vulnerability to the Panamanian Ethereum community, and determination conscionable mightiness beryllium a radical surf travel afterwards for the much adventurous of the group! ETHPanama 🇵🇦 — Oct 26-28

VII. Other things to know

Safety first! 🛟

Emergency numbers

National exigency fig (24-hour wide line): Tel: 123 Metropolitan Police: Tel: 112

We volition person aesculapian unit astatine the venue on-site successful lawsuit of emergencies. You tin besides interaction [email protected].

Code of Conduct 👔

Please retrieve to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is disposable here.

For immoderate questions regarding the Code of Conduct, oregon to marque a report/file a complaint, interaction a unit subordinate oregon a volunteer.

Stay up to day with the latest news! 🗞

Follow Deva connected Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon

Join our official Telegram community for questions and broadside events.

That's it! Remember to bookmark this leafage for speedy entree to each things Devcon, and invited to Bogotá!

-- EF Devcon squad 🦄