IPFS stewards <> advocates sync

[danieln]

2022-09-16

Participants

@mosh @lidel @BigLep @Jorropo @reid @taylor @danieln

Agenda

• IPFS Camp
• js-ipfs examples repo
• Luma for the community calendar
  • See Boris’ reply Community Calendar - options other than Google Cal? - #7 by boris
  • Will require a shared account
• Plausible analytics experiment
  • docs are public: Plausible · docs.ipfs.tech
  • blog is private; Daniel can give access
• Verifying GitHub Org
  • Verifying or approving a domain for your organization - GitHub Enterprise Cloud Docs

Notes

• IPFS Camp

  • Goals:
    1. Greatly increase the number of people who can significantly contribute to the project. We want folks who can help with content routing, CID versions, etc. so they can build great dev tools, etc.
    2. Build a community that is inspired to build on IPFS (DeSci)
    3. Fun (memorable, relationship building)
  • Scaling our efforts through better specs and documentation.
  • Lidel would be open to give a revised version of the IPIP talk.
  • How could to Stewards help given that we have about a month?
    • Is it more about content creation? better specs?
    • Mosh: The community is more blocked by knowledge than software
    • Daniel: if you’re building applications, what do you need to know,

• js-ipfs examples repo

  • Why is it in a separate github org?
    • There is a monorepo but also repo for each example and this prevents pollution.
    • example-per-repo is fork-and-go pattern → low friction dx for both usage and contribution. Fork-n-Go
  • Good thing: there is a CI in js-ipfs to ensure examples pass
  • Ownership:
    • js-ipfs maintainer area of responsibility: make sure not breaking examples or updating them if do break
    • for triaging incoming examples, need someone who is deciding whether it’s relevant/useful
      • Decision: devrel will own it
      • Practicalities
        • Org readme
        • Ask #ipdx to setup github-mgmt
  • Example utility:
    • Not all of them are useful
    • Makes sense to go through them one by one
  • Problem:
    • many don’t know they exist
      • We need to get more links.
  • Steve: Meta: should we get Alex to this meeting?

• IPNS Spec

  • feat: update IPNS specification by lidel · Pull Request #319 · ipfs/specs · GitHub
  • More eyes on the above are welcome. We actually have docs specifying how it works.
  • Libraries
    • js-ipns is used in js-ipfs
    • go-ipns is used in kubo
    • Both can be used as standalone library.

• Verify domains for IPFS GitHub org!

Action items

• @Jorropo : think about applied UnixFS talk
• Engres folks planning on attending should RSVP to the event so that we could get a head count
• @daniel ask #ipdx to set up the Github management (similar to GitHub - ipfs/github-mgmt) for ipfs-examples
• @danieln Ask Russel, Lidel, Alex to help with the cleaning of the examples.