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 12 months 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 discuss with one another.
In that spirit, we’re designing the programming and atmosphere of Devcon4 to supply the time and house for all of us to make new connections – between folks and concepts. It is 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 12 months!
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 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 fingers 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 opinions, [enter your awesome idea here]
Whenever 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 in an effort to obtain mass adoption?
- Safety: How can we guarantee the security 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 creating 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 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 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 standard drawback? How can your work profit the remainder of our neighborhood?
With ~3000 contributors and solely a lot time, we count on functions for participation to be extremely aggressive this 12 months. 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 cross.
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.
- Instructional: 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 anyplace else.
- Enjoyable: The primary cause 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 study extra and apply!
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