@frado.near [Posted on DevHub](https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/Post?id=1703) ## Idea: NEARCON Hacker Travel Stipend - Frado Hello Dears NEAR DevHub community ! My name is FeRnAnDo ( Frado ), I´m from Brazil working in framework of RC-South America and founder of fraDAO community since 2021. I DeV Technologies for museums and gallery since 2006 and learned electronic buy my self since 8 years old. I entered in arduino projects about 17 years ago, in the moment i´m participating of NEAR Hackathon with infrastructure projects to grow and onboarding big communities and want to share my proposal for a travel stipend to attend NEARCON and participate in the upcoming hackathon following this post from [yarotska ](https://near.org/devgovgigs.near/widget/gigs-board.pages.Post?id=1506#/neardevgov.near/widget/ProfilePage?accountId=yarotska.near) yarotska that outlines the availability for travel grants/stipends that may be available for experienced NEAR hackers. I have 20 years of experience in director of technologies working with brilliants programmers, being project manager, creating hardwares and experience designer for museums and galleries, graduated in XP Design in Kaospilot (DE), i´m learning by my self electronics, my knowledge is from the valve equipment to silicon and arduino´s family. I've been deeply involved in the NEAR ecosystem from 2021, with community builder. NEAR is my life since 2021. My experience in NEAR was inside fraDAO, onboarding, educating 80 woman's members and incubating a Rural Farm, creating a club membership and circular economy with NEAR Token (cos.tkn.near). During this time I have been contributing with CreativeDAO in ETH Milan 2023 with creative exposition and in Brazil is ambassador of NFT São Paulo(30k audience), NFT Rio(25k audience), Blockchain Rio as speaker (About NEAR Metaverse with 15k audience), Rio Innovation Week as Speaker (NEAR DAO theme, with 155k audience), leader in fraDAO since 2021, NEAR Community DAO Member in NF, 680 days visited, 9 days read, 13.3K posts read. In last hackathon BOS i was third place with a project “ Point of Sale” for NEAR tokens transactions. My partner was @Manza from Argentina and we want to continuing the partnership in NEARCON and connect with more DEV in Lisbon. **Goals during NEARCON:** I'm looking forward to living the NEARCON experience for the first time, I participate nationally and internationally in web 3 events and I've never been to a NEARCON event, I want to connect with other developers to create infrastructure projects to create communities through a portal with different components , as a soulbound token, integrated dashboards during the NEARCON hackathon. During the hackathon, I will be creating a team for projects focused on onboarding, discount club, non-transferable membership card, token creation and dashboard for circular economy. **Travel Itinerary** Origin: Brazil – Rio de Janeiro To: Lisbon Dates: Nov 6-11th 2023. Flight example: https://www.google.com/travel/flights/search?tfs=CBwQAhooEgoyMDIzLTExLTA2agwIAhIIL20vMDZnbXJyDAgDEggvbS8wNGxsYhooEgoyMDIzLTExLTEyagwIAxIIL20vMDRsbGJyDAgCEggvbS8wNmdtckABSAFwAYIBCwj___________8BmAEB&tfu=KgIIAw **Estimated Basic Expenses**: Flights: $1100 Accommodation: $300 **Total:** $1400 **NEAR Hackathons XP:** 🥉 3rd place - BOS Hack Hackathon Sept 2023 - NEAR Horizon – working in progress Thank you for opportunity for a travel stipend to attend NEARCON. I'm Here to collaborating with NEAR ecosystem to realize infrastructure projects for community builders.