# The IPFS community is growing
Over the last several years, the number of contributors, companies, and working groups advancing IPFS through specs, developer tooling, and implementations has grown significantly.
This reflects an important shift for the IPFS project — IPFS is now driven by a thriving community from all corners of the world.
This shift is evident on several fronts: the sheer number of working groups regularly meeting, the scope and breadth of new projects (expanding IPFS into compute with Bacalhau (opens new window), and activity in the IPFS specifications repo (opens new window) which has spiked in the last year.
# The New IPFS Community Calendar
Today, in the spirit of the new year, we're excited to share the new IPFS Community Calendar (opens new window) as a hub for all IPFS community events — both offline and online.
We created this for you and are keen to have you join us.
🗓 Subscribe to the calendar to be informed about any new events added to the calendar
🗳 Register for specific events (and event series for recurring events) in the calendar
🎫 If you're organising a meetup or event related to IPFS, submit it for inclusion using the "Submit Event" button on the calendar (opens new window). Once submitted we'll review it and publish it (assuming it's relevant.)
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# Events for everyone
The versatility of IPFS attracts a variety of community members such as application developers, game developers, low-level protocol developers, service providers, and artists and creatives.
The community calendar should serve as the event hub for all these different groups. We already have events covering a wide spectrum of levels and areas of interest to cater to both newcomers and long standing members of the community:
- Compute over Data (COD) Working Group (opens new window) - community of decentralized compute projects and related tooling meeting online every two weeks and in person twice a year to collaborate and raise awareness of our space.
- InterPlantary Office Hours (opens new window) - a weekly session open to all levels, where you can bring your IPFS questions.
- IPFS Implementers Sync (opens new window) - a meeting for those creating and maintaining IPFS implementations to discuss the protocol, specs, and IPIPs (opens new window).
- IPFS Content Routing Working Group (opens new window) - a work group focused on content routing in IPFS the subsystem responsible for how content is discovered on the IPFS network.
- IPVM Community Call (opens new window) - focused on the effort to add content-addressed computation with a virtual machine to IPFS.
- IPFS Thing 2023 (opens new window) - an in-person event bringing together maintainers or core contributors of an IPFS implementation, ranging from production usage to working demo.
- Move the Bytes Working Group (opens new window) - work group focused on shipping a more efficient data transfer protocol for IPFS to replace Bitswap.
- ProbeLab IPFS Network Measurements Office Hours (opens new window) - for anyone interested in IPFS network measurements in the IPFS
- This month in IPFS (opens new window) - a monthly community-oriented live stream to discuss everything going on in the IPFS ecosystem.
We couldn't be more excited to welcome you to join IPFS events that interest you!
If you're interested in hosting an event, feel free to submit it for inclusion or reach out to us if you have any questions.
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