Community: Get in Orbit

Join our open source ecosystem of ~2,000 active contributors, plus many more developers and users.

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From the annual IPFS Camp and IPFS Thing conferences to working groups and online forums, our community creates out-of-this-world ideas right here on Earth. Join us!

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Discuss topics in-depth

Check out the IPFS Forums to discuss open problems, share ideas, and get help from the community.

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Meet other members of the community virtually or in-person by subscribing to our event calendar.

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Meetups And Working Groups

Help us untangle the thorniest problems facing the distributed web (and meet some bleeding edge thinkers) by joining one of our global working groups.

Interplanetary Office Hours

Virtual office hours for anyone in the community to bring your questions, show off your projects, and connect with IPFS developer advocates.

What's covered: Demos, new project ideas, and 1-1 time with the Protocol Labs team.

IPFS Implementers

Biweekly working group for people who create and maintain different IPFS implementations

What’s covered: IPFS improvement proposals (IPIPS), protocol bugs, feedback.

libp2p Implementers

Open-source community for maintainers and users of libp2p, the networking layer of IPFS.

What's covered: Community events, roadmap, new features, triage, and performance issues.

IPLD Working Group

Collaborative community for IPLD (InterPlanetary Linked Data), a data model for the content-addressable web.

What's covered: Developer resourcing needed for new implementations & libraries, standardization, changes to IPLD.

WNFS Working Group

Collaborative community for WNFS (Web Native File System), a file system built on top of IPFS.

What's covered: Public roadmap, use cases, public & private WNFS features.

IPVM Working Group

Monthly working group for IPVM (InterPlanetary Virtual Machine), an effort to add content-addressed computation to IPFS.

What's covered: Web assembly (Wasm) models, roadmap, community events, feedback.

Move the Bytes Working Group

A working group dedicated to shipping a production-ready data transfer protocol that can replace Bitswap in IPFS.

What's covered: Roadmap updates, testing, documentation, and tracking metrics.

Content Routing Working Group

Working group to introduce alternative content routing options to IPFS.

What's covered: Decisions regarding content routing, feedback regarding integration of indexer nodes into kubo nodes, design decisions, status updates, and IPIP discussions & feedback.

ProbeLab Office Hours - IPFS Network Measurements

Open office hours are for anyone interested in network measurements in the IPFS network. Hosted by the ProbeLab team.

What's covered: Decisions regarding content routing, feedback regarding integration of indexer nodes into kubo nodes, design decisions, status updates, and IPIP discussions & feedback.

Community Voices

The Next Frontiers

We're shooting for the stars, and we can't do it without your help. Here are some of the unknowns we've yet to discover:

How can we introduce privacy and encryption functionality to IPFS?

How do we enable connectivity between every platform IPFS runs on, from satellites to lower powered IoT devices?

What data structures and recommendations can we create to help other developers?

How can we invent a more efficient peer-to-peer data transfer protocol?

Interested in solving these challenges together? Join a community event , a working group , or forum discussion.