# Welcome back to the IPFS Weekly
Here’s what’s happening lately in the InterPlanetary File System (opens new window) galaxy and beyond! 🚀
# Top 10 recent highlights
- Announcing collaborative clusters (opens new window), the first set of public collaborative clusters, creating an easy way to join the IPFS Network.
- An IPFS Use Case (opens new window), or why IPFS is well-suited to handle the buying and selling of data.
- The IPFS Docs Beta is live! (opens new window) Learn more about helping beta test (opens new window) to make it even better.
- New release: IPFS Cluster 0.12.0 is here! (opens new window)
- Hands-on IPLD Tutorial in Golang: Getting Started with IPLD (opens new window)
- ProtoSchool (opens new window) has enabled social sharing. When a user completes all lessons in a tutorial, they’re now presented with a congratulatory message and an opportunity to share their success on Twitter!
- Comparing IPFS and Dat (opens new window): Everything you wanted to know about the two.
- A Quick Dive Into the Dweb with IPFS (opens new window), no joke like 15 minutes quick.
- IPFS Storage Adapter (opens new window) for Ghost Blog with Heroku Deploy
- Get caught up on the IPFS All hands with Peergos (opens new window)
# Current work in progress
An update from the IPFS Core Implementations (opens new window) team:
- go-ipfs 0.5.0: Delays due to existing issues. Remaining testing requirements have been defined.
- js-ipfs: Steady progress progress on async/await refactor.
- js-ipfs: unixFS 1.5: merged mode and mtime support.
- Bitswap protocol extensions: Progress on implementing bitswap protocol extensions in both JS/Go
- go-ipfs: Effort to use multihashes rather than CIDs in DHT, Datastore etc., is in progress.
Any awesome #c++ devs out there? (opens new window) The distributed-wikipedia-mirror could use a helping hand to get updated snapshots of Wikipedia in Turkish, English, and more!
Looking to dip your toes into some fresh libp2p and Nim development? (opens new window)
Don’t forget to get involved with the new IPFS docs beta (opens new window) by testing, contributing content, or voting on new features!
# Recommended viewing
BYOD: bring you own data | Carson Farmer | textile.io - YouTube (opens new window)
# Check out our mentions
- The Coming Decentralized Decade (opens new window), 06 Jan 2020
- The library is now OPEN, the real Secure, Private and Unblockable VPN (opens new window), 04 Jan 2020
- Build a dynamic website… or not? (opens new window) 02 Jan 2020
- How ICTE will use IPFS and Cloudflare to create a secure trading environment (opens new window), 28 Dec 2019
- Building a Distributed AppStore with 3Box (opens new window), 27 Dec 2019
- A protocol & event-sourced database for decentralized user-siloed data (opens new window), 18 Dec 2019
- Intro to Web3 and Protocol Labs (opens new window), 18 Dec 2019
- Off-Chain Data: Why traditional clouds don’t work for blockchain data (opens new window), 17 Dec 2019
- You Know It - Prove It! (opens new window) 16 Dec 2019
- Decentralized React states - using IPFS to sync, store, and recover state (opens new window), 13 Dec 2019
- Textile’s primer on libp2p, part 2 (or why we really ❤️ libp2p) (opens new window), 12 Dec 2019
- IPFS Website Experiment Using Ethereum Name Service (opens new window) 01 Dec 2019
# Quote of the week
# Open positions working on IPFS
- Research Engineers and Scientists (opens new window), ResNetLab
- Golang Engineer, focused on p2p systems and immutable data types (opens new window), Qri
- 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
- 18 Jan 2020 | Global Diversity CFP Day (opens new window), Global
- 13-17 Feb 2020 | #BUIDL Week Colorado - ETHDenver 2020 (opens new window), Denver (CO), US
- 13 Feb 2020 | Distributed Networks Summit – IPFS & Friends (opens new window), Denver (CO), US
Get involved with IPFS by checking us out on GitHub (opens new window), joining discussions on our community forum (opens new window), or hitting us up in chat (opens new window). Have a suggestion? Email us.