IPFS Weekly 88

Jenn Turner
IPFS Weekly 88
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# Welcome to the IPFS Weekly

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

# News about the 0.5 Release last week

# Using IPFS to fight COVID-19

Here are some ways people in the dweb space are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with their skills.

# New bounties on the IPFS Bounty Board

Several new bounties of varying amounts have been added to the IPFS Bounty Board (opens new window), so check those out and see if you can get paid to fix something!

# Latest releases

# Top highlights this week

# People are building the coolest stuff with IPFS

# Join us Wednesday and Thursday at the IPFS Pinning Summit

On May 7-8, 2020, we are hosting the first-ever IPFS Pinning Summit (opens new window), and we would love for you to attend! This virtual event is geared toward groups that provide pinning or other web/dweb infrastructure services. We plan to discuss the current state of distributed web infrastructure—including some of the challenges and operational lessons—and several exciting future opportunities (grants, integrations, potential new markets, etc). Register to attend here (opens new window).

# Quote of the week

# Attend one of these exciting events from the comfort of your own home

  • Ethereal Virtual Summit (opens new window): 2020 May 7-8, Join the first-ever virtual conference and experience a stellar collaboration of technologists, artists, startups, entrepreneurs, and investors engaging directly with the latest developments in Ethereum, blockchain, and decentralization.
  • Consensus Distributed (opens new window): 2020 May 11-15, Tune in for dozens of sessions across multiple tracks and days to better understand what the future might look like, especially in a post-COVID-19 era. It’s the same great content you’ve come to expect from Consensus, but virtual.
  • csv,conf,v5 (opens new window): 2020 May 13-14, A community conference for data makers everywhere. Featuring stories about data sharing and data analysis from science, journalism, government, and open source.

# Job hunting? Work on IPFS!

  • Senior Software Engineer Rust/Go (opens new window): You would be working with our distributed team of engineers on new products, core protocols or client projects. Most of the work we do is or will eventually be open source. Equilibrium, Remote.
  • Software Engineer, the Underlay Project (opens new window): Strong full-stack web developer with an interest in semantic web and decentralized web technologies. The Knowledge Futures Group, Remote
  • Technical Product Manager, 3Box (opens new window): Own the delivery of new technical products and features across the 3Box suite of developer APIs, SDKs, and plugins, and manage the onboarding, engagement and partnership activities to ensure a thriving community and network. 3Box, NYC, Berlin, or Remote
  • Project Operator, IPFS (opens new window): Tackle some of IPFS’s highest priority initiatives using flexible problem solving abilities. Also responsible for identifying the project’s most important problems, structuring them, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to come to a solution. Protocol Labs, Remote
  • Specifications Engineer, libp2p (opens new window): Help write clear specifications for libp2p, and thus aid in new languages being able to implement the libp2p specs correctly. Protocol Labs, Remote
  • Senior Software Engineer, IPFS or libp2p (opens new window): Experienced in distributed systems design and implementation? Join our full-time open-source team where we value experience independently designing and implementing significant components of complex systems, and the execution focus and discipline to carry projects to completion. Protocol Labs, Remote

Take care of yourselves and each other. ❤️

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