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🙌🏽 IPFS Weekly Call 📞

The 🙌🏽 IPFS Weekly Call 📞 is a venue to highlight the most exciting work in the broader IPFS community and disseminate high-value knowledge to the many teams improving IPFS, building on top of it, or doing relevant research. You can use these weekly calls to:

    1. Attract skilled contributors to your project
    1. Motivate the community about adding support for a new feature
    1. Find new partners, capabilities, or challenges for your project to work on/with
    1. Practice speaking in front of a captivated audience

🏮 The format

The 30-minute IPFS Weekly Update takes place weekly on Mondays at:

9:00 PST | **17:00 UTC** | 18:00 CET

Each week's call will feature one or more short talks from guest presenters, in one of the following formats:

  • One 15-minute talk (3x per month)
  • Show and tell with realtime signup for demos, feature intros, status updates, and questions (1x per month)

📅 Upcoming talks

View the list of scheduled talks

📼 List of previous talks

You can also check a Youtube playlist with every IPFS Weekly ever!

Applying to present at the Weekly Call

    1. Write a short abstract about your talk and propose a date. Consulting the calendar of upcoming talks can give you a good idea of which dates are available.
    1. Send your abstract to ipfs-weekly-call-rfp@ipfs.io. Someone from the IPFS Community WG will follow up and give you an update about the status of your talk within 24-48 hours.
    1. After your talk has been confirmed, prepare slides for your talk. (Depending on your content, you may also want to share a demo.) Your presentation should be approximately 15-20 minutes long, unless you're giving a 5-minute lightning talk.
    1. On the day of the talk you will be given a Zoom link. Sign on to Zoom and be prepared to speak after announcements.
    1. Two days after you've finished presenting, you'll receive a recording of the call via email. Feel free to help build awareness of IPFS and by sharing the video of your talk with your friends, family and colleagues!

Topics that we're looking for:

  • Anything DWeb, really.
  • Direct work with any of the IPFS APIs (i.e. go-ipfs, js-ipfs)
  • Technologies that support IPFS, like IPLD
  • Applications that are built on top of IPFS, such as Peer Pad
  • Distributed applications where IPFS is part of the development stack, such as OpenBazaar
  • IPFS used to build alternative decentralized applications that directly address societal problems)

If you're looking for more inspiration, check out some of our past talks:

Preparation checklist

For the presenter

In order to improve the quality of your talk:

  • Ensure that you will have a good Internet connection. Here are a few tips:
    • Avoid public spaces such as Coffee Shop Wifi
    • If you can, use an ethernet cable to your router
    • Run a speedtest https://www.speedtest.net. Shoot for a small ping, small jitter and high bandwidth (50mbits or more will get you a great stream)
    • Use the Zoom test url https://zoom.us/test to see if Zoom reports problems on your stream
  • Ensure that your audio will be clear. Here are a few tips:
    • If you have access to a good microphone or headphones go for it
    • Avoid being in a crowded space

For the host of the call

  • Announce the presentation at least 3 days in advance on @ipfsbot twitter
  • Announce the presentation again at least 30 minutes in advance on @ipfsbot twitter
  • After the call is done, recording is edited and uploaded, create a blog post for the blog.ipfs.io
  • Send the url of the post to the presenter.
  • Capture all the questions to ensure that the presenter can answer them async, in case we ran out of time.

For the person recording and Live Streaming the call

  • Turn on Gallery mode in Zoom so that we can see everyone's happy faces in the Live Stream and recording