# 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 popped up on the front page of Hacker News (opens new window) this week.
- Last week was the 5th anniversary of this commit (opens new window) to the IPFS repository. 🎉
- Protocol Labs, a team of folks behind IPFS, is hiring right now (opens new window) for several roles, check them out (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).
- Federated Meets P2P (opens new window), Medium, 07 Dec 2018
- Radium 2.0 Development & Expansion Roadmap (opens new window), Radium Core, 07 Dec 2018
- Textile Update | November 2018 (opens new window), Textile, 07 Dec 2018
- Redecentralize.org Meetup (opens new window), Bryan Kam, 06 Dec 2018
- 4 Decentralized Cloud Storage Platforms That Are Shaking Up The Industry (opens new window), Invest in Blockchain, 05 Dec 2018
- Epicenter.tv featuring Nick Sullivan of Cloudflare, talking about The Internet’s (De)centralized Security Blanket (opens new window), Epicenter, 04 Dec 2018
- The IPFS Cloud (opens new window), Pinata, 04 Dec 2018
- Easy integrations with Textile Thread subscriptions (opens new window), Textile, 03 Dec 2018
- How IPFS is Challenging the Web as We Know It (opens new window), Rubiks Digital, 04 May 2018
# 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).
- Announcing PhysX SDK 4.0, an Open-Source Physics Engine (opens new window)
- Ether-1 Node Network (opens new window), gateway node beta testing is live!
- File synchronization on top of IPFS with git-like interface and fuse filesystem written in golang: brig (opens new window)
- This research paper (opens new window) cites IPFS in its references to a Wikipedia page.
# 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.
- TONIGHT: The Internet Archive is hosting a Decentralized Web Meetup (opens new window) on 11 December 2018, in San Francisco, California.
- Sign up to be notified for IPFS Conf 2019 (opens new window), in Lisbon.
- AraCon (opens new window), the first Aragon Conference, will take place in Berlin, Germany on January 29-30, 2019.
- Global Diversity CFP Day 2019 (opens new window) will be on Saturday March 2nd. In 2019 there will be numerous workshops hosted around the globe encouraging and advising newbie speakers to put together your very first talk proposal and share your own individual perspective on any subject of interest to people in tech.
- Data Terra Nemo (opens new window) is coming up in May 2019, and they’ve announced Juan Benet (opens new window) as their first speaker.
# 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.