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description: Resources and Reference for all Things Filecoin
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# Filecoin Resources

## Resources & Contribution Channels

### GitHub:

* Primary venue for discussion, specs and docs: [https://github.com/](https://github.com/filecoin-project)
  * Lotus implementation: [https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus)
  * Go actors implementation: [https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs-actors](https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs-actors)
  * Rust proofs implementation: [https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-proofs](https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-proofs)
* Community: [https://github.com/filecoin-project/community](https://github.com/filecoin-project/community)
* Protocol discussions (FIPs): [https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs](https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs)

### [Getting Started with IPFS and Filecoin](https://protocollabs.notion.site/Getting-started-with-IPFS-Filecoin-173c73d4d8d64765a42058594bc46bb7)

### [Storage Provider Bootcamp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TgPILQD3c)

In this bootcamp from March 2022, get all the information you will need to start down the path of becoming a Filecoin storage provider.

### Discussions / Messaging

* [Filecoin Slack](http://filecoin.io/slack): #fil-lotus-dev, #fil-lotus-help, #fil-actors, #fil-fips, etc - active discussion with a large and broad community
* PL Slack #fil, #project-lotus, #fil-protocol-dev

### Public Meetings

* Community meetups ([Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/6?cid=ZmlsZWNvaW4ub3JnX2o3bW1ldjI0ZzgwcmVsbzU2cHFtMWVsMWUwQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20))
* Working groups (join #enterprise-sp-wg for more info. Normally happens at Saturday noon EST, [zoom](https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcJaBnwKNl))
* Core Dev meetings ([Planning](https://github.com/filecoin-project/tpm/tree/master/Core%20Dev%20Meetings), [Recordings](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_0VrY55uV1-9t74K-eFQN7Bc7ROG06hT))

### People

* Lotus: [Aayush Rajasekaran](mailto:aayush.rajasekaran@protocol.ai) & [Łukasz Magiera](mailto:lukasz@protocol.ai)[Kuba Sztandera](mailto:kubuxu@protocol.ai)
* Lotus miner: [Łukasz Magiera](mailto:lukasz@protocol.ai)
* Go-actors: [Wyatt](mailto:wdaviau@protocol.ai)
* Fil-markets: [Dirk McCormick](mailto:dirk@protocol.ai)[Aarsh Shah](mailto:aarsh.shah@protocol.ai)
* Gas: [Kuba Sztandera](mailto:kubuxu@protocol.ai)
* Graphsync: [Hannah Howard](mailto:hannah.howard@protocol.ai)
* Community mgmt + releases: [Jennifer Wang](mailto:jennifer.wang@protocol.ai)
* FIPs: [kaitlin@fil.org](mailto:kaitlin@fil.org)

## More Filecoin Initiatives

### Filecoin Virtual Machine

* [Video – Introducing the FVM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9syGiG31c\&t=1s)
* [Blog – Introducing the FVM](https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/introducing-the-filecoin-virtual-machine/)
* [FVM Website](https://fvm.filecoin.io/)

### Filecoin Plus

* [Blog – Filecoin Plus: How Storage Providers Can Engage with Verified Clients](https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/filecoin-plus-how-storage-providers-can-engage-with-verified-clients/)
* [Filecoin Plus Website](https://plus.fil.org/)

### Filecoin Green

* [Video – Tools for Greening Filecoin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leA6cbq6ToA)
* [Blog – Filecoin Green](https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/filecoin-green/)

### [Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralised Web](https://ffdweb.org/)
