Welcome to the IPFS Weekly. 👋

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) (opens new window) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identity. IPFS enables the creation of completely distributed applications. It aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open. Since that’s a pretty large scope, we track development across the ecosystem in this weekly dispatch.

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Here are some of the highlights since the last IPFS Weekly.

The latest

IPFS Working Group OKR Update Videos

Catch up on the latest IPFS Working Group goals and ships for Q2 in this playlist of working group videos (opens new window) now!

Introducing IPFS Office Hours for Contributors

Are you keen to contribute to IPFS but don’t know where to start? Come and ask at Contributor Office Hours (opens new window) starting the hour before the IPFS Weekly Calls on Mondays. Join us ☺️

Initial Implementation of GraphSync Wire Protocol is here

Pretty self explanatory but the Initial Implementation of the GraphSync Wire Protocol in Go (opens new window) has arrived. Check it out!

Meet the Community: Carson Farmer, Core Developer @ Textile.io

This week for Meet the Community, we had Carson Farmer, a Core Developer at Textile (opens new window)

IPFS in the wild

Do you follow IPFS on Twitter (opens new window)? For the latest mentions of IPFS in the news, check our Twitter feed or see the latest articles on Awesome IPFS (opens new window).

• We Made A Dashboard for IPFS Clusters and Now We Want You to Check it Out (opens new window), Hackernoon, 14 May 2019
• XR Web: A Decentralized Protocol for Spatial XR apps (opens new window), Melody Grey, 14 May 2019
• The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Deploying Your First Static Website to IPFS (opens new window), Interplanetary Gatsby, 12 May 2019
• Ghost 2 Blog on Heroku (opens new window), FISSION, 11 May 2019
• On-premise To Cloud To Serverless To Cloud Native To Serverless Less Applications?? (opens new window) A story on digital transformation, 9 May 2019
• Run Your Own IPFS Search Engine With Lens (opens new window), 9 May 2019
• Call for Alpha Testers (opens new window) We’re building a Heroku add-on that makes it easy to integrate InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) into apps you host there. 8 May 2019
• Foreword: Space-Ready Publishing with Gatsby and IPFS (opens new window), Interplanetary Gatsby, 7 May 2019
• Ethereum 2.0’s Nodes Need to Talk – A Solution Is ‘Hobbits’ (opens new window), Yahoo Finance, 5 May 2019
• Notes on 3Box (opens new window), Open Work Labs, 2 May 2019
• How We Built autom(8) So Fast (opens new window), Fn, 24 Apr 2019
• The Case for a Decentralized Social Network (opens new window), Nate Foss, 10 Mar 2019

Updates and new releases

See the latest releases of IPFS tools and projects across the ecosystem.

• Textile has docs! (opens new window)
• OMGoodness it’s May! Here’s the Textile April update. (opens new window)

Tools and projects we ❤️

Awesome IPFS (opens new window) is a community maintained and updated list of projects, tools, or pretty much any things related to IPFS that are totally awesome. To see more, or add yours to the list, visit Awesome IPFS on GitHub (opens new window).

• [Contest] libp2p+noise (opens new window): Win a Data Terra Nemo’19 conference ticket!
• Indrive (opens new window), host files on IPFS using Bitcoin Lightning
• Alita.global (opens new window): Decentralized computing Dx chain based on IPFS

Coming up in the Community

Did you know IPFS has a community forum at discuss.ipfs.tech (opens new window)? Sign up to participate in discussions about coding, tutorials, see announcements and learn about upcoming community events.

• 16 May 2019: Calling all dweb enthusiasts to come meet and mingle at the first Berlin Lab Social (opens new window). It’s going to be a good time to check-in with the community and update everyone on the latest efforts underway in the IPFS, IPLD, Libp2p, IPFS Cluster, and Filecoin communities.
• 17-18 May 2019: Data Terra Nemo (opens new window) is a technical conference about decentralized protocols and the software built on top of them, Berlin, Germany.
• 23 May 2019: May p2p // dweb meetup (opens new window), hosted by Peer-to-peer and Decentralized Web Toronto and held at Mozilla.
• 22 June 2019: Commit Porto '19 (opens new window) is a tech conference that brings together professionals who tackle challenges in software development with the latest technologies, Porto, Portugal.
• 27-30 June 2019: IPFS Camp (opens new window) is a 3 day hacker retreat designed for the builders of the Distributed Web! Barcelona, Spain.
• 18-21 July 2019: DWeb Camp (opens new window) is a chance for dreamers and builders to come together in one of the most beautiful spots on earth for a 4-day retreat to reimagine and build the web we want and deserve, location south of San Francisco, California.
• 2-5 August 2019: Offline Camp (opens new window) is a 4-day retreat to explore Offline First development and design in Grants Pass, Oregon. Learn more about the event here. (opens new window)

Thanks for reading ☺️

That’s it for this week’s news on all things IPFS. If we missed something, reply to this email and let us know! That way we can feature you in next week’s edition.