Welcome to the primary growth replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of an everyday sequence of weblog posts maintaining the group updated on the web site’s progress.
What have we been as much as?
👋 Hiring!
Once we rebooted ethereum.org earlier this 12 months, it rapidly turned clear that the web site wanted a full-time workforce behind it to satisfy the group’s expectations. Over the summer season, we have prioritized constructing that workforce to assist the web site into the long run. At present, we’re thrilled to announce that the EF has employed a full-time net developer for ethereum.org: Sam Richards.
Sam’s function might be to guide 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 net growth, digital advertising and marketing and search engine marketing, and most just lately labored at an Ethereum pockets startup.
We’re extraordinarily excited for Sam to hitch the workforce – please be a part of us in welcoming him to the EF!
♻️ Constructing the Translation Program and Group
One among our highest priorities with the web site reboot was to launch a full-fledged translation program. Ethereum is probably the most used programmable blockchain on this planet, and it’s crucial that the 80% of people that don’t communicate English have entry to key sources.
Since asserting this system, we now have been joined by 116 volunteers who’re working to translate the web site into 17 languages. A number of of those might be pushed stay to the positioning within the coming weeks.
As we proceed to scale up the interpretation effort, we’ll develop our work to incorporate the interpretation of key third social gathering sources: weblog posts, documentation, and different materials. We’re additionally working to make sure that ethereum.org itself is inbuilt a approach that lets us add and revise translations easily and sustainably.
Concerned about contributing? Study extra concerning the ethereum.org Translation Program and get began right here.
🛠 Fixing, merging, and updating
Since launch, we now have merged 102 pull requests, making many tweaks and adjustments 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 all the time, growth of ethereum.org occurs in our Github repo – test it out if you wish to comply with alongside extra carefully, or work on one of many excellent points.
We have additionally shipped the primary new piece of art work for the homepage. Each few months, we’ll replace the web site with new art work created by the Ethereum group – a approach of showcasing the expertise in our ecosystem, and reminding the world that Ethereum is all the time progressing and bettering because of the contributions of our world group.
🎯 What’s subsequent?
Here is a preview of our priorities for the subsequent few weeks:
🤔 Person persona evaluation and website restructuring
- Once we launched the brand new ethereum.org, we began with 4 easy subpages: a web page for inexperienced persons, a web page for individuals who need to use Ethereum, a web page for normal studying concerning the challenge, and a web page for builders.
- Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with a couple of months of primary person analytics information, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the group, we’re reviewing the person personas for ethereum.org.
- As soon as full, this may doubtless lead us to a reorganization of the top-level construction of the positioning, adjustments to the touchdown web page, and doubtlessly the addition of latest subpages for customers that are not at present 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 further 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 can enable builders to right away soar 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 challenge administration is uncovered on Github, the place we are able to profit from extra group remark and enter.
- It will embrace creating extra well-documented points to make it simpler for open-source contributors to know the way they might help with the positioning’s growth. See all points tagged “good first situation”
- We have additionally created a twitter account for the web site: @ethdotorg. This account might be used to share updates like this one, in addition to extra granular updates just like the addition of an important new useful resource or article, a brand new function, an attention-grabbing pull request, and extra.