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 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 atmosphere of Devcon4 to supply the time and area for all of us to make new connections – between individuals 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!) dealing with Ethereum at the moment.
So we’re going to experiment with extra participatory programming at Devcon4 this yr!
Listed here 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: Train individuals 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 artistic and give you your individual 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 just join your session to one among six core themes:
- Scalability: How can we scale Ethereum in a safe, decentralized, and trustless method with a purpose to obtain mass adoption?
- Safety: How can we guarantee the protection of person 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 & Methods: Why will we BUIDL? How will this know-how change our societal methods, 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 so on.)
If you wish to speak about your particular dapp or protocol, please accomplish that within the context of one among these shared subjects. How have you ever recognized or solved a typical drawback? How can your work profit the remainder of our neighborhood?
With ~3000 contributors and solely a lot time, we anticipate purposes 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 study straight from the leaders of the Ethereum ecosystem. Members ought to study issues they couldn’t study wherever 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 neighborhood.
Go to https://devcon4.ethereum.org/call-for-participation to study extra and apply!
–dc⟠ıv group