After we requested a lot of you, “What are you most excited for at Devcon4?” most individuals replied: the folks! That is the one time a yr all of us get collectively in a single place. We don’t need to spend all of our time at Devcon sitting in a darkish room, staring in silence at an individual on a stage – we need to see, meet and discuss with one another.
In that spirit, we’re designing the programming and setting of Devcon4 to offer the time and house for all of us to make new connections – between folks and concepts. This can be a probability for us to ask one another a very powerful questions and dive deep into the hardest challenges (and thrilling alternatives!) going through Ethereum right this moment.
So we’re going to experiment with extra participatory programming at Devcon4 this yr!
Listed below are 3 ways you may apply to take part in Devcon4:
- Give a presentation: That is self-explanatory. 😉 Give a 5-minute lightning discuss or a 20-minute presentation on the subject of your selection.
- Lead a workshop: Train folks to do one thing. Over the course of two hours, contributors ought to “get their palms soiled,” whether or not writing code or studying to inform tales.
- Host a breakout room: Be inventive and give you your individual programming for Devcon4! Host dapp design critiques, facilitate a dialog, do dwell safety critiques, [enter your awesome idea here]
If you apply, we ask that you just join your session to considered one of six core themes:
- Scalability: How can we scale Ethereum in a safe, decentralized, and trustless method so as to obtain mass adoption?
- Safety: How can we guarantee the protection of person information and funds?
- Privateness: How can we empower customers to be accountable for their very own information?
- Developer Expertise: How can we make creating for Ethereum easy, extensible, and enjoyable?
- UX & Design: How can we create a extra intuitive, usable and pleasant expertise for our customers?
- Society & Techniques: Why can we BUIDL? How will this expertise change our societal methods, and the folks inside them? (To be clear: that is additionally a little bit of a “catch all” theme for governance, cryptoeconomics, social affect, memes, and so on.)
If you wish to discuss your particular dapp or protocol, please accomplish that within the context of considered one of these shared subjects. How have you ever recognized or solved a typical downside? How can your work profit the remainder of our neighborhood?
With ~3000 contributors and solely a lot time, we anticipate functions for participation to be extremely aggressive this yr. Please purchase your tickets forward of time within the probability that your submission is not accepted so that you just don’t miss out on getting a ticket to Devcon4! We are going to course of a refund for anybody who purchases a ticket after which qualifies for a complimentary move.
Please assist us create a Devcon4 expertise within the spirit of those values:
- Participatory: We’re all creating the Ethereum ecosystem collectively and Devcon4 ought to replicate that. Along with academic talks, Devcon4 ought to present alternatives for contributors to contribute to the broader dialog and share data with each other.
- Academic: As the one EF-hosted occasion, Devcon4 is an opportunity for our neighborhood to be taught instantly from the leaders of the Ethereum ecosystem. Contributors ought to be taught issues they couldn’t be taught wherever else.
- Enjoyable: The primary purpose why folks come to Devcon is to see each other! Let’s create a uniquely “Ethereum” household reunion for our neighborhood.
Go to https://devcon4.ethereum.org/call-for-participation to be taught extra and apply!
–dc⟠ıv staff
