Proposal: Upgrade the IPFS All Hands Format

IPFS_WEEKLY_CALL_FORMAT.md

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+# 🙌🏽 IPFS Weekly Call 📞 
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+## Motivation
+
+For the past couple of months, we have been discussing revamping our Weekly Calls (formerly known as the IPFS All Hands ). If you want more context, please see this issue https://github.com/ipfs/pm/issues/636.
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+We want the IPFS Weekly Call to act as a space where we can showcase all of our hard work and game-changing projects. These meetings give viewers a taste of some of the problems we are tackling.
+
+
+## What's in it for you? 😺
+
+The main purpose of the 🙌🏽 IPFS Weekly Call 📞  is 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:
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+- 1. Attract skilled contributors to your project
+- 2. Motivate the community about adding support for a new feature
+- 3. Find new partners, capabilities, or challenges for your project to work on/with
+- 4. Practice speaking in front of a captivated audience
+
+## The format
+
+The 30-minute IPFS Weekly Update takes place weekly on Mondays at:
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+9:00 PST |  **17:00 UTC** | 18:00  CET
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+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)
+* Three 5-minute lightning talks (1x per month)
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+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/blockchain-side-hustle/image/upload/v1541176158/ipfs_crew_xzbhxr.png)
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+## List of upcoming talks  ⚡️📅⚡️
+
+[View the list of scheduled talks](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XRB2QsPzCPLPOErKvDZfOKK3CMohI9t_QKNdztYMlK0/edit#gid=350755898)
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+## Steps to signing up and speaking
+
+- 1. Write a short abstract about your talk and propose a date. Consulting the [calendar of upcoming talks](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XRB2QsPzCPLPOErKvDZfOKK3CMohI9t_QKNdztYMlK0/edit#gid=350755898) can give you a good idea of which dates are available.
+- 2. 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.
+- 3. 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.
+- 4. On the day of the talk you will be given a Zoom link. Sign on to Zoom and be prepared to speak after announcements.
+- 5. 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:
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+- Anything DWeb, really.
+- Direct work with any of the IPFS APIs (i.e. [go-ipfs](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs), [js-ipfs](https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs)
+- Technologies that support IPFS, like [IPLD](https://github.com/ipld/js-ipld)
+- Applications that are built on top of IPFS, such as [Peer Pad](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peer-pad)
+- Distributed applications where IPFS is part of the development stack, such as [OpenBazaar](https://openbazaar.org/blog/openbazaar-2018-roadmap/)
+- IPFS used to build alternative decentralized applications that [directly address societal problems](https://observer.com/2017/05/turkey-wikipedia-ipfs/))
+
+### If you're looking for more inspiration, check out some of our past talks!
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+- [_Mozilla and the Distributed Web_ by Irakli Gozalishvili](https://youtu.be/0fT9HC2Crqw?t=116) (November 12, 2018)
+- [_Distributed Web and for the Global South_ by Nico Pace](https://youtu.be/4gVUKbXT0cM?t=52) (November 5, 2018)
+- [_Peer Pad Nano_ by Jim Pick](https://youtu.be/o1tUzgThZK0?t=18) (October 29, 2018)
+- [_nuWebUI_ by Alan Shaw](https://youtu.be/iEagJfB8AvM?t=124) (October 22, 2018)
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+You can also check a [Youtube playlist with every IPFS Weekly ever!](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuhRWgmPaHtSGRSHdU9dbsukHKlihZZAe)

README.md

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 Synchronous Communication is phenomenal to transfer memes rapidly, clarify any outstanding questions, deep dive into hard topics together, get to know each other better and develop trust. The main pain point with Synchronous Communication is that if you were not present, you might miss out on important information that is relevant to you and your project. To overcome this limitation, **a core competency of the IPFS Org a a whole is to be stellar at taking notes and creating artifacts that represent any decision/announcement made during those synchronous conversations**. The corollary being: if it ain't written down and broadcasted, it didn't happen.
 
-### Weekly IPFS All Hands
+### 🙌🏽 IPFS Weekly Call 📞 (formerly known as IPFS All Hands Call)
 
 - **When:** Every Monday, 5pm UTC. See [calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ipfs.io_eal36ugu5e75s207gfjcu0ae84@group.calendar.google.com).
 - **How:** This takes place synchronously using [Zoom](#zoom).
 - **Length:** 30 minutes.
+- **Format:** [IPFS_WEEKLY_CALL_FORMAT](IPFS_WEEKLY_CALL_FORMAT.md)
 
 This is a regular and reliable call where everyone who's working on any repository under the IPFS umbrella checks in and has a chance to either call attention to particular items, to make announcements, or to seek discussion of a topic. It's also a way for casual followers to get a high-level update on the pulse of the IPFS projects without having to follow all of the sprint calls. Newcomers are very welcome.
 
 If you are interested in participating, please join us on [Zoom](#zoom).
 
-You can find recordings of the [previous IPFS All Hands on a Youtube playlist on the IPFS channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmAniA6g9D0&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtSGRSHdU9dbsukHKlihZZAe)
+You can find recordings of the on the [Youtube playlist, IPFS All Hands 🙌🏽 📞](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmAniA6g9D0&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtSGRSHdU9dbsukHKlihZZAe)
 
-This calendar an other IPFS Community calls are tracked on the [IPFS Community Calendar](https://github.com/ipfs/community#calendar)
+This call and other IPFS Community calls are tracked on the [IPFS Community Calendar](https://github.com/ipfs/community#calendar)
 
 If you are hosting a call for the first time or interested in learning how to do it, consult the [HOST_A_CALL](HOST_A_CALL.md) guide.