Welcome to the primary growth replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of a daily collection of weblog posts conserving the group updated on the web site’s progress.
What have we been as much as?
👋 Hiring!
Once we rebooted ethereum.org earlier this year, it rapidly turned clear that the web site wanted a full-time workforce behind it to satisfy the group’s expectations. Over the summer time, we have prioritized constructing that workforce to help the web site into the longer term. Immediately, we’re thrilled to announce that the EF has employed a full-time internet developer for ethereum.org: Sam Richards.
Sam’s position might be to steer all technical growth of ethereum.org, and be the primary level of contact with all open-source contributors to the web site. Sam has a background in internet growth, digital advertising and marketing and website positioning, and most just lately labored at an Ethereum pockets startup.
We’re extraordinarily excited for Sam to affix the workforce – please be part of us in welcoming him to the EF!
♻️ Constructing the Translation Program and Workforce
One among our highest priorities with the web site reboot was to launch a full-fledged translation program. Ethereum is essentially the most used programmable blockchain on the planet, and it’s important that the 80% of people that don’t converse English have entry to key sources.
Since asserting this system, we have now been joined by 116 volunteers who’re working to translate the web site into 17 languages. A number of of those might be pushed dwell to the positioning within the coming weeks.
As we proceed to scale up the interpretation effort, we’ll broaden our work to incorporate the interpretation of key third get together sources: weblog posts, documentation, and different materials. We’re additionally working to make sure that ethereum.org itself is in-built a method that lets us add and revise translations easily and sustainably.
Considering contributing? Learn more about the ethereum.org Translation Program and get started here.
🛠 Fixing, merging, and updating
Since launch, we have now merged 102 pull requests, making many tweaks and modifications to the web site in response to group enter. Now that Sam has joined the workforce, we anticipate to have the ability to transfer a lot sooner. As at all times, growth of ethereum.org occurs in our Github repo – test it out if you wish to observe alongside extra intently, or work on one of many excellent points.
We have additionally shipped the primary new piece of artwork for the homepage. Each few months, we’ll replace the web site with new paintings created by the Ethereum group – a method of showcasing the expertise in our ecosystem, and reminding the world that Ethereum is at all times progressing and enhancing due to the contributions of our world group.
🎯 What’s subsequent?
This is a preview of our priorities for the subsequent few weeks:
🤔 Person persona evaluation and web site restructuring
- Once we launched the brand new ethereum.org, we began with 4 easy subpages: a web page for freshmen, a web page for individuals who need to use Ethereum, a web page for common studying concerning the venture, and a web page for builders.
- Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with a couple of months of primary consumer analytics knowledge, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the group, we’re reviewing the consumer personas for ethereum.org.
- As soon as full, it will possible lead us to a reorganization of the top-level construction of the positioning, modifications to the touchdown web page, and probably the addition of latest subpages for customers that are not presently well-served.
👩💻 Improved developer sources
- We’ve created a selected touchdown web page for Java builders: ethereum.org/java.
- As a result of many builders concentrate on a selected programming language, creating language-specific pages are a key developer evangelism and on-boarding method.
- We’re engaged on extra developer touchdown pages: see for example the open-issues for /javascript and /python
- We’re near ending a brand new function of the web site that may enable builders to instantly bounce right into a “studio” the place they will write their first solidity contract, proper on ethereum.org
- We’re working to make sure that all venture administration is uncovered on Github, the place we are able to profit from extra group remark and enter.
- This can embrace creating extra well-documented points to make it simpler for open-source contributors to understand how they may also help with the positioning’s growth. See all points tagged “good first issue”
- We have additionally created a twitter account for the website: @ethdotorg. This account might be used to share updates like this one, in addition to extra granular updates just like the addition of an ideal new useful resource or article, a brand new function, an attention-grabbing pull request, and extra.