Once we requested lots 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 wish to spend all of our time at Devcon sitting in a darkish room, staring in silence at an individual on a stage – we wish to see, meet and speak with one another.
In that spirit, we’re designing the programming and surroundings of Devcon4 to supply the time and area for all of us to make new connections – between folks and concepts. This can be a probability for us to ask one another crucial questions and dive deep into the hardest challenges (and thrilling alternatives!) going through Ethereum as we speak.
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 speak or a 20-minute presentation on the subject of your alternative.
- Lead a workshop: Educate folks to do one thing. Over the course of two hours, contributors ought to “get their fingers soiled,” whether or not writing code or studying to inform tales.
- Host a breakout room: Be artistic and provide you with your personal programming for Devcon4! Host dapp design critiques, facilitate a dialog, do dwell safety evaluations, [enter your awesome idea here]
Once you apply, we ask that you simply join your session to one among six core themes:
- Scalability: How can we scale Ethereum in a safe, decentralized, and trustless method in an effort to obtain mass adoption?
- Safety: How can we guarantee the security of consumer knowledge and funds?
- Privateness: How can we empower customers to be in charge of their very own knowledge?
- 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 & Techniques: Why will we BUIDL? How will this know-how 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 influence, memes, and so on.)
If you wish to discuss your particular dapp or protocol, please accomplish that within the context of one among these shared matters. 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 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 mirror that. Along with academic talks, Devcon4 ought to present alternatives for contributors to contribute to the broader dialog and share info with each other.
- Instructional: As the one EF-hosted occasion, Devcon4 is an opportunity for our neighborhood to be taught straight from the leaders of the Ethereum ecosystem. Contributors ought to be taught issues they couldn’t be taught wherever else.
- Enjoyable: The primary motive 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
