Hello NEAR family. 
In April, the DAO Open Web Academy team made a proposal to run Open Web House MTY, the third on-site NEAR hackathon/Hacker House in Mexico, with the aim of adding new constructors to the NEAR Protocol. and develop new dApp solutions for the ecosystem and on this occasion to actively promote the use of the Blockchain Operating System and NEAR Social.
TL;DR 
You can read the Twitter thread that summarizes the event: https://twitter.com/openwebacademy_/status/1663256389773295633
A SUCCESS OPEN WEB HOUSE MTY
After the last hacker house we hosted, we flew to the north of Mexico to celebrate an open web house by NEAR Protocol in the city of Monterrey Mexico. At the end of this edition we are left with great learning, great projects and great excitement to continue building web 3.0, but above all a great adoption and acceptance of the NEAR ecosystem. Today I present the formal report of the event held last week 
Before starting the summary and numerals of the event, it is necessary to thank the @CarnesCrypto community for being a great strategic partner to carry out the Hackathon Open Web House MTY and the main event of #CriptoMéxico (side event that was held on the same week than the open web house) 
, as well as all the local communities that welcomed us. 
And in the same way, thank the dao marketing team (@marketingdao-council)who, since our first edition, have given us full support, as well as the necessary feedback so that the NEAR construction space continues to improve and expand throughout the territory of Latam. 
Before the event 
With the intention of disseminating and giving presence to the event, the Open Web House community developed the following activities
- 1 week of online training to learn how to build on NEAR Protocol | view
- 1 twitter spaces about Open Web House MTY | view
- Advertising with printed material in the venue of the event
The event 
From May 24 to 26 we were at the Nuevo León Cultural Citizen Laboratory in Mexico @labnuevoleon hacking local problems and validating them as web 3.0 projects so that people could benefit from decentralization, human causes and technology by #NEARProtocol and @auroraisnear. With a schedule from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., the participants had the opportunity to receive workshops, listen to talks, and create contact networks to scale up the proposed projects.
- Venue of the event: Nuevo León Cultural Citizen Laboratory. See maps
- Dates March 24 to 26 from 13:00 p.m. to 21:00 p.m. per day.
- Event schedule: See schedule
- Participant guide and code of conduct of the event: See guide and code of conduct
- Event challenges: GitHub challenges.
Event numbers
The Open Web House MTY had:
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82 registered people -
64 attendees
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+60 NEAR wallets created -
5 teams hacking -
16 speakers at the hackathon -
+8 BOS widgets created -
+ 12 hours of content -
+ 10 crypto communities
Attendees from 4 different cities in Mexico
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Tepic, Nayarit, México -
Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
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Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
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Ciudad de México, México
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Yucatán, México
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El Salvador
2 partner universities
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Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Léon - https://www.uanl.mx/
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Instituo Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey - https://tec.mx/es
Hackathon management, participants and projects 
After 3 days of hard work building projects with NEAR and AURORA technology at the Citizen Cultural Laboratory, on May 27 we took the participants of the Open Web House MTY to the event #CriptoMéxico, crypto talks and networking event that was held the same week, in the same city, and which gave the hackathon finalist teams the opportunity to present their created projects in front of the attendees of said event. This was in a new venue, the convention center @cintermexmty where +200 people interested in the crypto world gathered.
4 projects were winners and awarded a prize bag of 3000 USDC 
from the NEAR network.
The administrative and technical management of the hackathon was carried out in Devpost. A platform that helps software engineers (developers) to participate in hackathon-style software competitions. Here the participants make their creations and tools visible to the Devpost community and the world. In this way, anyone interested in monitoring what was created on May 24-26 at the Open Web House Monterreyd, can enter the link https://owh-mty-ft-criptomexico.devpost.com/ and see the details of all the projects created, as well as the participants of each team and the profiles they have.
The challenges 
In each Open Web House held by the owa community, we strive to offer a high-level impact, and on this occasion the objectives of the hakacthon were aimed at more people being able to build solutions using the Blockchain Operating System and AURORA technology, reason for which we wrote construction challenges that would allow more widgets and decentralized interfaces in the network.
NEAR IS BOS
Introduction:
Blockchain Operating System is one of the easiest ways to build and deploy a decentralized frontend that is useful for any chain: NEAR, Ethereum Virtual Machines, Solana, Polkadot, etc. On top of that, all the information lives inside the NEAR Protocol blockchain, making your frontend totally decentralized.
- Deploy smart contracts as fungible tokens, NFTs, DeFi or something else.
- Transfer tokens between accounts, either $NEAR or a fungible token.
- Transfer tokens using the Ethereum rainbow bridge <> NEAR <> Aurora
- Set up validator nodes for your Proof of Stake system
- Introduce new users easily to the world of Web 3.
Expected solution:
In this challenge you will have to build your own widget for a smart contract running on the NEAR Protocol. The contract can be created by you using the contract of a third party.
EVM IS BOS
Introduction:
The Ethereum Virtual Machine is the application layer that was originally released on top of Ethereum, and is now present in multiple chains: Aurora Network, BNB Chain, Moonbeam, Arbitrum, among others. EVM’s have the advantage of having a large number of users and existing infrastructure for their use, including: Web3.js, Meta Mask, Wallet Connect and other tools that make it versatile for use.
Specifically speaking, Aurora Network is the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) mounted on top of the NEAR Protocol infrastructure. With Aurora you can:
- Transfer your tokens between Ethereum <> NEAR <> AURORA
- Deploy smart contracts made in Solidity with the same experience as in Ethereum.
- Use wallets known as Meta Mask.
- Pay low transaction costs.
- Using the aurora.plus platform you get 50 free transactions per month
Expected solution:
A decentralized application that runs on the Aurora network and with high added value to its users.
To see all the challenges proposed for the open web house MTY visit the following link and see in detail the tracks in which the participants could hack. owh-retos/2023-05-monterrey at main · open-web-academy/owh-retos · GitHub
Full experience 
For 1 full week Monterrey Mexico became the crypto epicenter of Mexico where the Open Web House MTY and the parallel activities of the hackathon allowed local communities to have fun, learn about NEAR and continue connecting with the ecosystem. 
OWA is social 
During the Open Web House, we carried out activations so that more people had a NEAR Wallet and began to share information in a decentralized way using near.social. If you didn’t get a chance to see the entire near.social feed between May 24-27, here’s a list of all the posts that were made about it.
Participants metrics 
Gallery 
Show te full gallery on this Twitter thread → https://twitter.com/openwebacademy_/status/1663954238056038403
Open Web House Live 
Transparency
Visualize and follow up on the monetary transactions carried out for the development of the event, such as food expenses, venue rental, payment of instructors and distribution of prizes from the Open Web Academy DAO dashboard.
*Disclaimer: Total of expenses could not be reflected on real time in DAO.
https://app.astrodao.com/dao/open-web-academy.sputnik-dao.near
, let’s keep building 
Love the stand and the merch 