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+# [IPFS Project Working Group](https://github.com/ipfs/team-mgmt/blob/master/TEAM_STRUCTURES.md#project) - 2019 Roadmap
+
+The [IPFS Project Working Group](https://github.com/ipfs/team-mgmt/blob/master/TEAM_STRUCTURES.md#project) serves as the point of coordination for the IPFS Organization.
+
+**Responsibilities include:**
+- Maintain the IPFS Project Roadmap and Vision.
+- Provide coaching to Working Groups to develop their own planning and goal-setting.
+- Facilitate communication and alignment across the organization.
+- Research, develop and build new ways to help async teams coordinate at scale.
+- Recognize needs of the project and develop solutions to meet them.
+- Spin up new working groups or projects to meet IPFS project needs.
+
+**Current Projects**
+- team-mgmt repo (tools and guides for the IPFS Team to coordinate with itself and the community)
+- IPFS Roadmap & supporting tools and materials
+- depviz - https://github.com/ipfs/pm/issues/132 (adopted)
+- 2018 Team Structure and 2019 projections
+
+## 🚀 Major 2019 goals to achieve
+
+The major goals below and following milestones have been labeled with the emoji for the goal in the IPFS Project Roadmap that they contribute towards:
+
+📦 = Package Managers  🗂 = Large Files  🔄 = Decentralized Web  🤝 = Partner Use Cases  🧠 = Strategic Projects
+
+- **1)** The IPFS org has clearly communicated vision, goals, and priorities to align and accelerate project development and adoption. 📦 🗂 🔄 🤝 🧠
+- **2)** A baseline suite of Coordination Strategies and Tools becomes first nature to the org. These have minimal overhead without losing clarity and productivity. 📦 🗂 🔄 🤝 🧠
+- **3)** The IPFS org increases its ability to operate at scale (ability to support a growth of 1 order of magnitude in the number of contributors, from X,000 to X0,000). 📦 🗂 🔄 🤝 🧠
+
+## 💎 Milestones
+
+### Audit and improve our team guides, tools, and processes
+
+- `M (P1)`: The InterPlanetary Community Handbook is Published 🧠
+  - A gitbook (or similar) containing the project values, how we organize ourselves, code of conduct, contributing guidelines and so on. 
+  - A new contributor spends less than a week onboarding into the community.
+  - Roles & Responsibilities for team members and captains are well defined
+  - It describes the Protocol Governance and how decisions are made.
+- `M (P1)`: Quarterly IPFS User Reports from our direct partners/collaborators and broad Users, exist and are useful to the Working Groups 🤝
+  - Quarterly Reports are published that Highlight top user needs, feature requests, and pain points
+- `M (P2)`: Roadmap is updated and published with 2020+ plans 🧠
+- `M (P2)`: The IPFS org makes decisions based on user research 🤝 🧠
+  - Working Groups have user researcher support to coordinate User Research efforts across the IPFS Project. Everyone can benefit from the output.
+  - We have 6+ user researchers as full time contributors on IPFS projects
+- `M (P3)`: Evaluate the current set of tools/services we use to run our org and compare it with potential alternatives 🧠
+  - List all the current ones we use
+  - Explore and evaluate others (i.e. Gitlab)
+  - Contribute to the analysis of the impact of OKRs in the IPFS Org
+
+### Grow, support, and bootstrap IPFS working groups
+
+- `M (P0)`: Bootstrap a Package Managers Working group 📦 🧠
+  - The IPFS Organization dogfoods Package Managers with IPFS
+  - The WG adopts GX and npm-on-ipfs as their products
+  - Gx is fast, efficient, and saves go developers time with 1+ fulltime maintainer
+  - Create the Package Managers Working Group Roadmap in advance (even before the WG exists) containing all the insights from the 2019 Roadmapping endeavour
+- `M (P0)`: IPFS Events are open and planned proactively 🧠
+  - IPFS Dev Meetings happen again
+  - IPFSConf increases IPFS usage, # of applications on IPFS, community growth, and external awareness/engagement
+  - Hack Weeks, Research Weeks and WG Gatherings are planned
+- `M (P0)`: Grow the Project WG with folks at full time capacity 🧠
+  - We have at least the equivalent of 4 people full time
+  - Project WG has an easy way to track cross-wg issues, blockers, and endeavors
+- `M (P0)`: IPFS Documentation & Specifications are organized, updated, and have 4+ active maintainers 🧠
+- `M (P0)`: IPFS gets a solid Security Program 📦 🤝 🧠
+  - We have 2+ fulltime contributors to lead Security for IPFS
+  - IPFS has a Responsible Disclosure Program
+  - IPFS gets regularly audited
+- `M (P2)`: Bootstrap Offline/Mobile working groups to prepare for 2020 work towards distributed web vision 🧠
+
+### Continue supporting a growing IPFS community while keep everyone excited and involved 🧠
+
+- `M (P1)`: The community receives Quarterly IPFS Project Reports (similar to the Filecoin updates) 🤝
+  - Highlight achievements by each Working Group
+  - Contain demos of what has been released
+- `M (P1)`: Create Large Research Contests for IPFS internals, driving adoption through enthusiasm and practice 🧠 📦 🗂 🔄
+  - Block Exchange (Improve on Bitswap)
+  - Graph Exchange (Improve on GraphSync)
+- `M (P1)`: IPFS gets a Public and Structured Dev Grant Program 🧠 📦 🗂 🔄
+  - At least 50 projects are published under this grant program
+- `M (P3)`: IPFS collaborates with PL Research and creates a Public Research Grant Program dedicated to IPFS Open Problems 🧠 📦 🗂 🔄
+  - At least 50 Open Problems are published
+  - 100% of the proposals are evaluated 
+
+## ⏳ Timeline
+
+- Q1
+  - `M (P0)`: Bootstrap a Package Managers Working group 📦 🧠 (Part 1: Roadmap, Onboard Owners for npm on IPFS, GX and partner relationships)
+  - `M (P1)`: IPFS gets a Public and Structured Dev Grant Program 🧠 📦 🗂 🔄 (Part 1: Launch program)
+  - `M (P1)`: The community receives Quarterly IPFS Project Reports (similar to the Filecoin updates) 🤝 (Part 1: Q1 Report)
+  - `M (P1)`: Quarterly IPFS User Reports from our direct partners/collaborators and broad Users, exist and are useful to the Working Groups 🤝 (Part 1: Q1 Report)
+  - `M (P0)`: IPFS Events are open and planned proactively 🧠
+  - `M (P0)`: IPFS Documentation & Specifications are organized, updated, and have 4+ active maintainers 🧠
+  - `M (P2)`: The IPFS org makes decisions based on user research 🤝 🧠 (Part 1: onboard some UXR support)
+- Q2
+  - `M (P0)`: Grow the Project WG with folks at full time capacity 🧠
+  - `M (P0)`: Bootstrap a Package Managers Working group 📦 🧠 (Part 2: Understand Package Manager Ecosystem Needs. Ensure that those are covered by the Core Impl work.)
+  - `M (P1)`: The community receives Quarterly IPFS Project Reports (similar to the Filecoin updates) 🤝 (Part 2: Q2 Report)
+  - `M (P1)`: The InterPlanetary Community Handbook is Published 🧠 (Part 1: Drafted)
+  - `M (P1)`: Quarterly IPFS User Reports from our direct partners/collaborators and broad Users, exist and are useful to the Working Groups 🤝 (Part 2: Q2 Report)
+  - `M (P0)`: IPFS gets a solid Security Program 📦 🤝 🧠 (Depends on LabOS figuring out the Security Team for PL)
+  - `M (P2)`: The IPFS org makes decisions based on user research 🤝 🧠 (Part 2: integrate into decision making)
+  - `M (P1)`: Create Large Research Contests for IPFS internals, driving adoption through enthusiasm and practice 🧠 📦 🗂 🔄  Part 0: preliminary planning)
+- Q3
+  - `M (P0)`: Bootstrap a Package Managers Working group 📦 🧠 (Part 3: The world (the Package Managers we work with first) starts defaulting to IPFS as a transport.)
+  - `M (P1)`: Quarterly IPFS User Reports from our direct partners/collaborators and broad Users, exist and are useful to the Working Groups 🤝 (Part 3: Q3 Report)
+  - `M (P1)`: The community receives Quarterly IPFS Project Reports (similar to the Filecoin updates) 🤝 (Part 3: Q3 Report)
+  - `M (P1)`: Create Large Research Contests for IPFS internals, driving adoption through enthusiasm and practice 🧠 📦 🗂 🔄  (part 1: Block Exchange grant)
+  - `M (P1)`: The InterPlanetary Community Handbook is Published 🧠 (Part 2: LAUNCH - ?@ipfs conf?)
+  - `M (P1)`: IPFS gets a Public and Structured Dev Grant Program 🧠 📦 🗂 🔄 (Part 2: target number of grants issued)
+  - `M (P2)`: Bootstrap Offline/Mobile working groups to prepare for 2020 work towards distributed web vision 🧠
+  - `M (P3)`: Evaluate the current set of tools/services we use to run our org and compare it with potential alternatives 🧠
+- Q4
+  - `M (P1)`: Create Large Research Contests for IPFS internals, driving adoption through enthusiasm and practice 🧠 📦 🗂 🔄  (Part 2: Graph Exchange grant)
+  - `M (P1)`: Quarterly IPFS User Reports from our direct partners/collaborators and broad Users, exist and are useful to the Working Groups 🤝 (Part 4: Q4 Report)
+  - `M (P1)`: The community receives Quarterly IPFS Project Reports (similar to the Filecoin updates) 🤝 (Part 4: Q4 Report)
+  - `M (P2)`: Roadmap is updated and published with 2020+ plans 🧠
+  - `M (P3)`: IPFS collaborates with PL Research and creates a Public Research Grant Program dedicated to IPFS Open Problems
+
+## ⁉️ Want to get involved?
+- File an issue here with questions, or make a PR to suggest an alternate path
+- Want to help make this happen? [Open an issue on the Project Working Group repo!](https://github.com/ipfs/project/issues)