(EDIT: we've a meetup coming up soon. The SV Ethereum Meetup is hosting an intro to IPFS later this month in San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/events/221350594... come hang out!)

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Hello Everyone!
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@jbenet here. Thanks for all the attention! Did not expect to wake up to this post today :)

The best resources for learning about ipfs are:

- The IPFS Paper: http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmR7GSQM93Cx5eAg6a6yRzNde1FQv7uL... (note: DRAFT 3, working on DRAFT 4, lots has evolved.)

- The Alpha Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMxDNuuAiQ

- The First Tech Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa4pckodM9g

- The IRC Logs: http://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/ -- there's so much knowledge in these, we're working on moving it over.

We're working on a bunch of more expository media:

- Specs!! https://github.com/ipfs/specs

- More Demos

- More Talks

- Draft 4 of the paper

But there's only so many hours in a day, and we spend most of our time developing. All the resources will be way more polished as time goes on. Please bear with us as we make these available. In the meantime, ask questions in our new FAQ (below), or in #ipfs on irc.freenode.net -- And we'll be answering questions here too of course.

I've just created: https://github.com/ipfs/faq -- if you ask questions there we can build a knowledge base

IPFS already works-- you can install it and try it out. It's not production ready yet, but it's already very reliable. I use it to move around all sorts of personal files, and we use it to host many websites.

Some people asked about what applications are there now? There's many static websites on ipfs, and some simple webapps. We ship our entire ipfs webui with ipfs itself (turtles all the way down!). In particular, Eris Industries recently made a decentralized YouTube clone using IPFS and their Decerver: https://github.com/eris-ltd/2gather If you see more-- please let us know at https://github.com/ipfs/community so we add it to an index (we just reorged our repos under the github org last week)..

We need to make some more tooling to make web-publishing with ipfs really, really nice. We'll be making that over the next few weeks, so if you're interested in pushing out websites with ipfs-- come talk to us.

Another big use case we're going after is Docker container distribution. We're preparing a whole bunch of demos right now that we'll show off in the next week or two. You can peek at: https://github.com/ipfs/container-demos We can already boot entire VMs and containers over ipfs in <10 seconds :D which makes me really happy. You can boot to ipfs with this makefile: https://gist.github.com/jbenet/76afa70955910a2ed097

If you want to help, the best ways are:

- Come hack with us! We're particularly looking for Go hackers

- Just use it!

- Write applications on top.

- Report issues: https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/issues and so on.

- Help us with docs

- Write another implementation (this is blocked by https://github.com/ipfs/specs/)

Some ipfs community members i've seen posting below are: whyrusleeping, dylankpowers, inconshreveable

Also, IPFS development is sponsored by our company, "Protocol Labs, Inc" -- we also make Filecoin. We are hiring, so check out: http://ipn.io/join (yeah-- we just changed the company name. still need to update ipn.io / get a new domain.)

See you around the tubes! :)
- @jbenet