# 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
- This weekend the IPFS Community will be at FOSDEM 2019 (opens new window), will you? Follow this issue (opens new window) for updates on an IPFS Meetup at the event.
- David Dias wrote up a fantastic 2018 Q4 London Hack Week Summary (opens new window) on the IPFS blog last week. Read the full recap for photos, details about the community show and tell, and more.
- ProtoSchool (opens new window) is off and running. There are now eight local chapters across three continents! Check it out!
# Meet Paula de la Hoz
Next week, Paula de la Hoz (opens new window) will be joining the IPFS All Hands weekly call (opens new window) to present on “Decentralized Internet and Privacy.” Paula has been a security auditor for the past few years, investigating and researching security and internet censorship. She is studying engineering and has a background in investigative journalism. Paula co-founded a privacy and digital rights awareness association called Interferencias (opens new window). She is passionate about freedom of software and hardware, so her talk will be a fantastic one! Join the IPFS All Hands call next Monday, 5pm UTC.
# 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).
- IPFS: A Distributed File Store (opens new window), Block360 Labs, 29 Jan 2019
- How to build a completely free Dapp (opens new window), Pact.Care, 29 Jan 2019
- Blockchain and the Next Cold War (opens new window), 27 Jan 2019
- TUTORIAL: Installing an IPFS Server on Debian 9 and Updating (opens new window), Abyss Project, 24 Jan 2019
- VIDEO: “Decentralization and the Great Pendulum of History” | Blockstack Tour - Hong Kong (opens new window), Daniel Jeffries, 23 Jan 2019
- VIDEO: Tensions Inherent to Building on Blockchains (opens new window), Nick Grossman, 23 Jan 2019
- IPFS-powered Torrent Paradise is decentralized and invulnerable (opens new window), ChainRift Research, 22 Jan 2019
- PODCAST: Developers Corner #5 featuring Alexandre ‘Postables’ Trottier - IPFS expert (opens new window), 28 Dec 2018
# Updates and new releases
See the latest releases of IPFS tools and projects across the ecosystem.
# Questions from the community 🤔
Here are some questions folks are discussing in the IPFS ecosystem.
- Is there a peer to peer backup system build on IPFS yet? (opens new window)
- Are there any non-technical obstacles (e.g., administrative barriers) to using IPFS? (opens new window)
- How secret are CIDs and what should I think about hosting user uploaded media on IPFS? (opens new window)
- Social Media Architecture with IPFS (opens new window)
- Is there any IPFS based application for private folder sharing, with GUI, available for Linux and Windows? (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).
- Temporal-JS SDK (Full Public IPFS+IPNS Usage) (opens new window): Not only can you pin content with the SDK, you have complete usage of all our public IPFS, and IPNS API calls. This means you can create and export keys, publish IPNS records, upload files, download files, use pubsub, retrieve IPLD objects, and object statistics.
- exoHash (opens new window) – A token driven data science product.
# 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.
- 2 Feb 2019: IPFS Bootstrapping - 2019 edition (opens new window) is coming to the Copehagen IPFS community.
- 2-3 Feb 2019: IPFS will be a topic of discussion at FOSDEM in Brussels. Join us there! (opens new window)
- 6 Feb 2019: Qri: A bleeding-edge open source data science tool on the distributed web, hosted by New York Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (opens new window).
- 15-17 Feb 2019: ETHDenver 2019 (opens new window), The ETHDenver #BUIDLATHON is about bringing together like minds around a common purpose.
- 2 Mar 2019: On Global Diversity CFP Day 2019 (opens new window) 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.
- 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.
# 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.