# Welcome to the IPFS Weekly
Here’s what’s happening lately in the InterPlanetary File System (opens new window) galaxy and beyond! 🚀
# Testground is here!
Introducing Testground v0.5 (opens new window), a tool dedicated to testing, simulating, benchmarking P2P and distributed systems at scale. This is a huge milestone for the distributed web, and for the wider p2p ecosystem. Discover what Testground is, how to get started, what’s coming next, and the backstory behind it on the IPFS blog.
# How do you use IPFS GUI Tools?
In order to help prioritize future improvements to IPFS tooling and interfaces, we’d appreciate learning more about how the IPFS Desktop app and the in-browser IPFS GUI (also known as Web UI) fit into your overall workflow. This survey should take no more than 5 minutes (opens new window), and will make a big difference—so thank you in advance for your time!
# Introducing the Hub
Last week, Textile Hub was released! The Hub is a collection of libraries and services connecting and extending IPFS, libp2p, and Filecoin so you can build apps, secure data, and delight users! Learn all about the Hub on the Textile blog (opens new window).
# The case for hosting Wikipedia on IPFS
The exploration to host Wikipedia on IPFS (opens new window) has begun. This project contains code to extract content from Wikipedia and add to IPFS and documentation of the proposed architecture. This is just a proof of concept and not ready for any serious use yet. As a reminder, a wikipedia-ipfs mirror (opens new window) also currently exists.
# Top highlights this week
- The Present and Future of IPFS: Thoughts on the IPFS Pinning Summit (opens new window)
- The Decentralized Web Could Help Preserve The Internet’s Data For 1,000 Years. Here’s Why We Need IPFS To Build It (opens new window)
- Problems to solve when building blockchain products (opens new window)
- The next stage of Web3 (opens new window): How The Graph, 3box, Unlock Protocol are laying the bricks for Web3
- See what Open Works Lab is doing with Glif (opens new window), a set of interoperable tools on the Filecoin network.
# Recommended viewing
# People are building the coolest stuff with IPFS
- Infura is partnering with Horizon (opens new window), a blockchain infrastructure company pioneering a new dimension of gaming that belongs to its players and creators.
- FYI, everything you can do with Temporal’s platform, you can now do over I2P (opens new window).
- Cyber IPFS Telegram bot (opens new window) can add any content to IPFS from Telegram with 2 clicks. Source (opens new window)
- BHP, the world's first computing power public chain (opens new window) which will build a set of infrastructure around the computing power ecology based on hashrate credit and provide basic services for various emerging hashrate ecosystems represented by cryptocurrency hashrate, genetic hashrate, IPFS hashrate, and AI hashrate.
- Introducing Basquiat, an IPFS-ready image resizing tool (opens new window) from Fission.
- PODCAST: Hashing It Out with Brad Kam talks Unstoppable Domains (opens new window)
- Get your AngularJS app sailing on IPFS in this short tutorial from Fleek (opens new window).
- Meshstream (opens new window) demonstrates live video streaming over content addressable storage, IPFS, and more!
- VIDEO: Watch Qri’s latest ratification of RFCs (Publish, Delete & Drop, & more) (opens new window).
- Check out this IPFS tutorial hosted on jupyter (opens new window)
# Quote of the week
#ipfs is one of the most unusual and powerful features of Ravencoin and our community has barely scratched the surface on its potential https://t.co/UyMV6Qw0la
— Project Raven 🦅/ RVN / Ravencoin (@Ravencoin) May 5, 2020
# Job hunting? Work on IPFS!
- Community Engineer, libp2p (opens new window): Help introduce new open source projects to libp2p and clear hurdles for them to adopt the libp2p stack for the networking layer of their system. Protocol Labs, Remote
- Engineering Manager, IPFS (opens new window): Engineering managers have the challenging and exciting task of supporting and empowering engineering teams to deliver complex internet-scale systems in an environment defined by curiosity, passion, and a love for open source. Protocol Labs, Remote
- IPFS Community Lead (opens new window): Provide tactical support for the IPFS community, creating a global community strategy, and executing this strategy on the ground! Protocol Labs, Remote
- 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
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