Back in October last year, the Go Core Dev Team for the IPFS, IPLD and libp2p projects spent some quality time together in London for a Hack Week. The overall feeling was excitment as it was the first time that many of the core contributors got the chance to meet in person.

Together, we explored our goals for the projects, along with the users needs and who is pushing for them. It was a great gathering and we wanted to make sure to share the results and the recordings with you.

The week format was really interesting and one that could almost go into the Async Team Management books (as a way to create sync time for distributed teams). A simplified overview of what happened is:

• Monday - Collaboratively surface the top priorities for the project. We defined them clearly and worked with the IPFS Project Working Group to prioritize them with the IPFS roadmap in mind.
• Tuesday - A ton of hacking and design discussions. Let the Hackers be free!
• Wednesday - Objectives and Key Results (OKR) check in. We went from a "top down" (few to many) OKR approach to a "divide and conquer". The 3 main areas of focus were identified (Data Exchange, Datastore & Providers) and the big go-ipfs team was divided into 3 groups that worked independently for 60 minutes to review and came up with great improvements to the original OKRs that had been defined before we met.
• Thursday - We had a SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT 🗿 (opens new window) session (links below) & hosted the IPFS London Meetup (opens new window). More details on how the meetup went in a blog soon™.
• Friday - Final review of the OKRs. As a prize for our very successful week, we all went to the British Museum to check out the Rosetta stone among many other cool things.

In the end we ran a retrospective and asked "When is the next one! 😄"

Results from SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT 🗿 (opens new window)

This is an IPFS Community favorite. A moment to report back all the great successes from the week! We do this report in lighting talk format. Full playlist (opens new window). Talks list:

• Bitswap/GraphSync Improvements and Module Architecture, Erik Ingenito (opens new window)
• Datastore Benchmarks, Eric Myhre (opens new window)
• IPLD Selectors & GraphSync, Juan Benet (opens new window)
• Offline First, Molly Mackinlay (opens new window)
• Community Contributing Guidelines, David Dias (opens new window)
  
  
  
• Provider Strategies, Michael Avila & Jan Winkelmann (opens new window)
• Scalable PubSub with GossipSub, Dimitris Vyzovitis (opens new window)
  
  
  
• The RFC RFC, Eric Myhre (opens new window)

IPFS London Meetup - Show & Tell

The fun would not be complete without an IPFS London Meetup. There were great talks and a surprise show-and-tell by Juan Benet himself, who demo'd a p2p chess game, built on peer-base (opens new window) while meetup was happening!

A post with the recorings will be published soon. Meanwhile, you can see the photos and join the IPFS London meet up here https://www.meetup.com/london-ipfs/photos/29361158/

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Thank you to @858Heather, @jamiejn, @angiemaguire, @olizilla and @alanshaw for helping us putting this amazing hack week and IPFS London Meetup!

This is it, it was a great success! Thank you all that joined and I'm sorry for those who couldn't come this time. See you all on the next Hack Week!!

I bid you all a good day!

David Dias