After 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 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 individuals and concepts. It is a probability for us to ask one another an important questions and dive deep into the hardest challenges (and thrilling alternatives!) dealing with Ethereum at this time.
So we’re going to experiment with extra participatory programming at Devcon4 this yr!
Listed here are 3 ways you’ll be able to 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 alternative.
- Lead a workshop: Educate individuals to do one thing. Over the course of two hours, contributors ought to “get their arms 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 reside safety critiques, [enter your awesome idea here]
While you apply, we ask that you simply join your session to one in every of six core themes:
- Scalability: How can we scale Ethereum in a safe, decentralized, and trustless method with a view to obtain mass adoption?
- Safety: How can we guarantee the protection of consumer 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 & Programs: Why will 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 influence, memes, and so forth.)
If you wish to discuss your particular dapp or protocol, please achieve this within the context of one in every of these shared subjects. How have you ever recognized or solved a typical downside? How can your work profit the remainder of our group?
With ~3000 contributors and solely a lot time, we count on 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 are going to course of a refund for anybody who purchases a ticket after which qualifies for a complimentary go.
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 data with each other.
- Academic: As the one EF-hosted occasion, Devcon4 is an opportunity for our group to study immediately from the leaders of the Ethereum ecosystem. Individuals ought to study issues they couldn’t study anyplace else.
- Enjoyable: The primary purpose 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 study extra and apply!
–dc⟠ıv crew
