Heyhey!
I think I owe some updates here…
Tl;dr - we pivoted our documentary from being a “Story of Devcon” to being “Built on Ethereum”. Before doing so, I had a call with Ligi, after which I thought we had the green light for doing so. Upon seeing Ligi‘s response to my tweet today, it seems we had a misunderstanding.
I wish one of us had recorded the call to see what actually happened, but I think at this point it matters less than explaining why we wanted to do what we did, and what‘s next.
Story of Devcon > Built on Ethereum
The original idea was to record a short documentary about Devcon itself. But as we were brainstorming it further in preparation to go there, the more obvious it became to us that “The Story of Devcon” is actually “The Story of Ethereum” & “the story of why & what people are building on Ethereum and how Ethereum can impact the world with all the cool stuff being built”.
Thus, “Story of Devcon” became “Built on Ethereum” - a documentary about dApps & usecases built on Ethereum.
When looking at the original post here, I‘d argue that even though the framing has changed a lot, the overall idea wasn‘t that huge of a pivot.
A bit of drama
Finding dApps & dApp builders on Devcon proved to be more difficult than we thought, so we made a sign & started shitposting in order to surface more dApp builders, so we can interview them.
Apparently I also misunderstood what Devcon was about, and not having many dApps or dApp builders was fully intentional.
My post about not finding many dApps on Devcon:
My response on being told I don‘t get Devcon:
Overall
The criticism isn‘t really for Devcon nor Ethereum, but ecosystem as a whole. Ethereum has by far the most dApps & established usecases than any other L1.
In the end, we did find 50+ awesome people to interview. The topics will cover anything from DeFi & ReFi, to DeSci, DAOs and real world usecases.
The message of the documentary will be overwhelmingly positive and it won‘t say anything bad about Devcon itself.
Finally…
Apologies to everyone we annoyed, and special apology to @ligi who approved our initial proposal for “The Story of Devcon”.
I still fully stand by my claim that we thought we had green light for this pivot, but I‘m also willing to retroactively pay for our Devcon tickets if the team thinks we misused our media passes.
If you want to read more about the documentary, here‘s this document that explains it in more detail. In case you don‘t hate us & want to support the production, you can do so here.