# Welcome to the IPFS Weekly
Here’s what’s happening lately in the InterPlanetary File System (opens new window) galaxy and beyond! 🚀
# Our focus for 2020: 📞 Content Routing
Yesterday we released our roadmap for 2020 and more, in a post examining our project focus for the coming year (opens new window). Beginning with an excellent recap of 2019—including some of the year’s top wins—as well as describing the unenviable process of roadmapping and decisions that led to our chosen focus, you can read all this and more on the IPFS blog (opens new window).
# Introducing the Interplanetary Testground
Last week, another project entered the Interplanetary realm: Testground (opens new window)! Though created by the helping hands of IPFS and friends, Testground is a general-purpose, agnostic platform for testing distributed software at scale. Take a look at the latest release notes (opens new window) and give it a try! 💫
# Top 5 recent highlights
- Have we mentioned the biggest of Big Refactors (opens new window) yet?
- With js-libp2p 0.27 released (opens new window), not only did the Async Await refactor of js-libp2p land, but we’ve measured memory usage improvements between 30-40% compared to the previous version!
- Hey IPFS Community, come hack with us at ETHDenver (opens new window) this week!
- “At age 30, this is not the Web we wanted...” The 3 Revolutions of Web 3 (opens new window)
- What are you working on with IPFS? a thread (opens new window) 🧵
# Recommended viewing
Check out “The Path to Peer-to-Peer Matrix” (opens new window) from Matthew Hodgson from FOSDEM, earlier this month.
# People are building cool stuff with IPFS
- libp2p-lora-transport (opens new window): Enabling low-bandwidth LibP2P protocols to communicate over LoRa, a low-powered long-range wireless protocol (WIP)
- 3Box messaging plugins (opens new window) get more social!
- Qri Desktop 0.3.5 (opens new window) upgrades electron & electron-builder, re-enabling auto-update on the app.
- The Butterfly Mobile App (opens new window): Your Butterfly identity is owned by you within your Ethereum wallet, to which only you have the secret to access.
- Robonomics Network (opens new window): Ethereum network infrastructure for cyber-physical systems’ integration into Smart Cities and Industry 4.0
# Quote of the week
The gossipsub protocol from @libp2p is too cool: https://t.co/Eg4GiuTTJB I put together a small node.js demo: https://t.co/9q5umb798i pic.twitter.com/dYG0hLz3gV
— Ryan Bell (@iRyanBell) February 8, 2020
# Open positions working on IPFS
- Backend Software Engineeer (opens new window), Qri
- Frontend Software Engineer (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
- 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
- Stanford Blockchain Conference 2020 (opens new window), 19-20 Feb 2020, Stanford (CA), US
- Ethereum Community Conference 3 (opens new window), 03-05 Mar 2020, Paris, France
- Open Data Day 2020 (opens new window), 07 Mar 2020, 35 events registered so far!
- Cryptoeconomic Systems Conference '20 (opens new window), 07-08 Mar 2020, Cambridge (MA), US
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