Once we requested lots of you, “What are you most excited for at Devcon4?” most individuals replied: the individuals! 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 speak with one another.
In that spirit, we’re designing the programming and surroundings of Devcon4 to offer the time and house for all of us to make new connections – between individuals and concepts. It is a likelihood for us to ask one another an important questions and dive deep into the hardest challenges (and thrilling alternatives!) dealing with Ethereum as we speak.
So we’re going to experiment with extra participatory programming at Devcon4 this yr!
Listed below are 3 ways you possibly can apply to take part in Devcon4:
- Give a presentation: That is self-explanatory. 😉 Give a 5-minute lightning speak or a 20-minute presentation on the subject of your selection.
- Lead a workshop: Educate individuals to do one thing. Over the course of two hours, members ought to “get their palms soiled,” whether or not writing code or studying to inform tales.
- Host a breakout room: Be artistic and give you your personal programming for Devcon4! Host dapp design critiques, facilitate a dialog, do stay safety opinions, [enter your awesome idea here]
If you apply, we ask that you simply 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 answerable for their very own information?
- Developer Expertise: How can we make growing for Ethereum easy, extensible, and enjoyable?
- UX & Design: How can we create a extra intuitive, usable and pleasant expertise for our customers?
- Society & Methods: Why can we BUIDL? How will this expertise change our societal techniques, and the individuals inside them? (To be clear: that is additionally a little bit of a “catch all” theme for governance, cryptoeconomics, social impression, memes, and many others.)
If you wish to speak about your particular dapp or protocol, please achieve this within the context of considered one of these shared matters. How have you ever recognized or solved a typical downside? How can your work profit the remainder of our group?
With ~3000 members and solely a lot time, we count on purposes for participation to be extremely aggressive this yr. Please purchase your tickets forward of time within the likelihood that your submission is not accepted so that you simply don’t miss out on getting a ticket to Devcon4! We’ll 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 members to contribute to the broader dialog and share info with each other.
- Academic: As the one EF-hosted occasion, Devcon4 is an opportunity for our group to be taught instantly from the leaders of the Ethereum ecosystem. Contributors ought to be taught issues they couldn’t be taught anyplace else.
- Enjoyable: The primary motive why individuals come to Devcon is to see each other! Let’s create a uniquely “Ethereum” household reunion for our group.
Go to https://devcon4.ethereum.org/call-for-participation to be taught extra and apply!
–dc⟠ıv staff
