Buddies,
Within the time because the final Devcon announcement, the state of the Ethereum ecosystem has been electrical. We’ve realized crucial milestones on the Eth2 roadmap, in addition to numerous breakthroughs and main progress by groups throughout the ecosystem. We’re extremely excited to have a good time these achievements with all of you at Devcon in Bogota quickly.
That mentioned, we have to discuss timing, as a result of we’ve made the tough resolution to carry off on reuniting for a bit longer relatively than pushing forward with our August goal (☔️✔). Whereas nothing is assured given the continuing pandemic, we’re hopeful {that a} new date announcement is feasible quickly with the provision of COVID-19 vaccines ramping up now, and up to date pandemic-related traits bettering. Nonetheless, we need to ensure we do that responsibly and that as many individuals as doable are in a position to make the journey from all world wide, which appears unlikely by early August. Now we have, in latest weeks and months, continued to watch and take heed to the issues raised by the group, and common sentiment across the August date, and it’s clear that one of the simplest ways to make sure that that we will ship for everybody is with just a bit bit extra time.
In the meantime, there’s rather a lot happening! The highway to Devcon shall be paved with the various occasions, digital and in-person — together with EthCC, which is now scheduled to happen in July of 2021 (hosted in Paris by our mates at Ethereum France). We’re excited to help the efforts of the entire wonderful and inventive groups working to maintain our ecosystem thriving. And whereas we have stayed engaged and linked over the past yr from afar, we hope to come back collectively once more because the scenario improves.
As quickly as we’re in a position to make date-related bulletins, you’ll discover proper alongside it data on ticketing, speaker purposes and all the opposite particulars we all know you’re desperate to study. Till then, we’ll proceed to actively evaluate Devcon Improvement Proposals, so in case you’ve received an concept that you simply assume will make Devcon higher, ship it our method. We’ll proceed to work towards placing collectively a tremendous occasion, which shall be right here earlier than we all know it.
