# 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
# Introducing the new IPFS Desktop
With the 0.7.1 release of the IPFS Desktop, we now have one simple interface! This is a pre-release, so check out all of the details in the changelog (opens new window) and if you find bugs or have some feedback, drop a line here (opens new window).
# Curious about CRDTs?
We ❤️ Conflict-free Replicated Data Types so much so that last April we hosted the 2018 CRDT Research Meetup (opens new window) in Lisbon. Authors of the CRDT research literature and representatives from the Labs it originated were in attendance, and some gave talks that you can watch the videos for by following this link! (opens new window)
# Revisiting IPFS Hack Week in Lisbon
Last spring IPFS held a Hack Week in Lisbon (opens new window) to bring together core developers, contributors, researchers, and IPFS community members to sync, hang, and work on some problem solving together IRL. If you missed it, many of the presentations were recorded so you can watch those videos here (opens new window). If you’re interested in attending the next IPFS Community event, check out IPFS Camp (more details below) and get registered here (opens new window).
# Meet Jia Le Dai
Jiale Dai (opens new window) used to work on mapping applications as a backend engineer at Baidu. In 2017 he became interested in IPFS, libp2p, and multiformats. Jiale eventually started organizing IPFS meetups for Chinese developers and enthusiasts (opens new window). His goal is to get more Chinese developers interested in distributed web technologies like IPFS. Jiale joins the IPFS Weekly Call next Monday at 5pm UTC (opens new window) to present on IPFS in China.
# 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).
- How to Deploy an Unstoppable Angular App to IPFS (opens new window), GoChain, 26 Mar 2019
- Sunsetting Mist: What’s ahead for our team (opens new window), 22 Mar 2019
- IPFS Encryption (opens new window), 21 Mar 2019
- Numerai raises $11M with ICO & prepares to launch prediction marketplace (opens new window), 22 Mar 2019
- Hugo and IPFS: how this blog works (and scales to serve 5,000% spikes instantly!) (opens new window) 20 Mar 2019
- Textile Notes: A minimalist tool for your creative ideas (opens new window), 19 Mar 2019
- PODCAST: WR 79: Another internet is possible: IPFS (opens new window), Web Reactiva, 19 Mar 2019
- Society Desperately Needs An Alternative Web (opens new window), Forbes, 15 Mar 2019
- A picture is worth a thousand crypto (opens new window), The Creative Crypto, 1 Jan 2019
# Updates and new releases
See the latest releases of IPFS tools and projects across the ecosystem.
- Pony version 0.28.0 has been released. (opens new window) Pony is the type safe, memory safe, exception-safe, data-race free, deadlock-free, open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language.
- DTube IPFS Discord Bot March 2019 Update! (opens new window)
- Radium 2.0 Development & Expansion Roadmap (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).
- Our friends at Qri, the global dataset version control system, were on the front page of Hacker News! (opens new window)
- IPFS-Lite is an embeddable, lightweight IPFS-network peer for IPLD applications (opens new window)
- Happy 5th birthday, 18F! (opens new window)
# Join us at the first ever IPFS Camp
IPFS Camp (opens new window) is taking place June 27th-30th in beautiful Barcelona. Meet the core developers and contributors to the IPFS project, community leaders, and builders on of the Distributed Web, but only if you register to attend. Registration is open now! (opens new window)
# 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.
- 27-28 Mar 2019: C3 Crypto Conference (opens new window) is not only focused on blockchain companies and projects but also extends to topics on new technology. C3 Crypto Conference 2019 is also Berlin’s first large-scale crypto conference.
- 28 Mar 2019: Creating a Decentralized App! (opens new window) Jude Nelson from Blockstack will come and explain in a light and friendly way how to build a decentralized app on Blockstack, 6pm, Newark (NJ), US.
- 4 Apr 2019: Where is the data bazaar? (opens new window) Join Brendan O’Brien of QRI as he presents his thoughts on this and dataset versioning with QRI. AWS Pop-up Loft, NYC.
- 24 Apr 2019: Introducing Hackboat (opens new window), an afternoon cruise along the beautiful Willamette river while enjoying awesome infosec presentations, Portland, Oregon.
- 2 May 2019: Munich IPFS User Group (opens new window): Pierre Krieger (opens new window) from parity (opens new window) talks about Rust libp2p.
- 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.