Welcome to the IPFS Weekly

Here’s what’s happening lately in the InterPlanetary File System (opens new window) galaxy and beyond! 🚀

Top 5 highlights

• The go-ipfs v0.4.23 release (opens new window) is right around the corner!
• The first search engine (opens new window) for the decentralized web has launched! 🚀
• Ever wanted to build a Twitter bot using IPFS Cluster? Check this out! (opens new window)
• Make an immortal website using Ethereum name service and IPFS Desktop (opens new window)
• Here’s how to deploy an IPFS node on Azure (opens new window)

People are building cool stuff with IPFS

• The world’s first (truly) private home security camera (opens new window) built with IPFS!
• Also built with IPFS, check out ItalyGourmet.co datahub (opens new window)
• Generate DApps for smart contracts (opens new window)
• ipfs-tab: (opens new window) IPFS extension for Chromium

Open questions from the community

• Help with experimental chat feature of js-ipfs/ipfs-pubsub (opens new window)...
• Thinking of doing live streaming project with IPFS (opens new window)...
• Has anyone attempted to use js-ipfs/web3js/js-libp2p to create a private network (opens new window) that's browse based?
• How to initiate IPFS node once and keep using the same PeerID (opens new window) in App?

Recommended viewing

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— Cassidy Williams (@cassidoo) January 13, 2020

Check out our mentions

• How open, trusted edge can help improve data sharing and monetization (opens new window), 23 Jan 2020
• Building MongoDB-like DataStore on InterPlanetary Linked Data (opens new window), 23 Jan 2020
• How Can Blockchain Improve Data Storage? | Cointelegraph (opens new window) 22 Jan 2020
• How to Host a Website on IPFS (with DNS) (opens new window) 22 Jan 2020
• Grokking Qri (opens new window), 21 Jan 2020
• Join us at ETH Denver 2020! (opens new window) 21 Jan 2020
• How to EASILY make your data persistent (data pinning) on IPFS with Alex of Pinata (opens new window), 19 Jan 2020
• Configuring IPFS part 2 (opens new window), 16 Jan 2020
• How to make a eth.link website (opens new window), 10 Jan 2020
• Foraged Stories: Planting the Seeds of a Story Economy in Haig Park (opens new window), 04 Dec 2019

Submit your next talk to these upcoming events

• 07 Feb: csv,conf,v5 (opens new window), a community conference for data makers everywhere, 13-14 May 2020, Washington, D.C., US
• 11 Feb: 40th Annual International Cryptology Conference (Crypto 2020) (opens new window), 16-20 Aug 2020, Santa Barbara, CA, US
• Closing soon!: Ethereum Community Conference 3 (opens new window), the largest annual European Ethereum event focused on technology and community, 3-5 Mar 2020, Paris, France
• Open now: C3 Crypto Conference (opens new window) reveals to the world all the innovative solutions and new technologies in the blockchain, crypto, and more, 03-05 June 2020, TBD

Open positions working on IPFS

• Senior Backend Engineer, IPFS (opens new window), Infura
• Data Research Assistant (opens new window), Qri
• Research Engineers and Scientists (opens new window), ResNetLab
• IPFS Community Lead (opens new window), Protocol Labs
• Project Operator, IPFS (opens new window), Protocol Labs
• Specifications Engineer, libp2p (opens new window), Protocol Labs
• Senior Software Engineer, IPFS or libp2p (opens new window), Protocol Labs
• Engineering Manager, IPFS (opens new window), Protocol Labs

Join the community at these upcoming events

• DWeb Talks: Kelsey Breseman– a DWeb Primer, Decentralized Web Seattle (opens new window), 30 Jan 2020, Seattle (WA), US
• WEBINAR: Do you dare to know how IPFS and Blockchain work? https://marketing.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/1D97557C38316695 30 Jan 2020
• FOSDEM 2020 (opens new window), 1-2 Feb 2020, Brussels, Belgium
• Paris P2P #6 (opens new window), 5 Feb 2020, Paris, France
• Distributed Networks Summit – IPFS & Friends (opens new window), 13 Feb 2020, Denver (CO), US
• #BUIDL Week Colorado - ETHDenver 2020 (opens new window), 13-17 Feb 2020, Denver (CO), US
• Open Data Day 2020 (opens new window), 7 Mar 2020, 35 events registered so far!

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