Welcome to the primary growth replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of an everyday collection 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 year, it rapidly grew to become clear that the web site wanted a full-time staff behind it to fulfill the group’s expectations. Over the summer season, we have prioritized constructing that staff to assist the web site into the longer term. In the present day, 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 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 net growth, digital advertising and marketing and search engine optimization, and most just lately labored at an Ethereum pockets startup.
We’re extraordinarily excited for Sam to hitch the staff – 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 probably 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 assets.
Since saying 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 stay to the location within the coming weeks.
As we proceed to scale up the interpretation effort, we are going to broaden our work to incorporate the interpretation of key third get together assets: weblog posts, documentation, and different materials. We’re additionally working to make sure that ethereum.org itself is in-built a manner that lets us add and revise translations easily and sustainably.
Fascinated by 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 adjustments to the web site in response to group enter. Now that Sam has joined the staff, we count on 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 are going to replace the web site with new art work created by the Ethereum group – a manner of showcasing the expertise in our ecosystem, and reminding the world that Ethereum is at all times progressing and enhancing because of the contributions of our international group.
🎯 What’s subsequent?
Here is a preview of our priorities for the following few weeks:
🤔 Consumer persona evaluation and website restructuring
- Once we launched the brand new ethereum.org, we began with 4 easy subpages: a web page for novices, a web page for individuals who need to use Ethereum, a web page for normal studying in regards to the challenge, and a web page for builders.
- Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with a couple of months of fundamental consumer analytics information, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the group, we’re reviewing the consumer personas for ethereum.org.
- As soon as full, it will seemingly lead us to a reorganization of the top-level construction of the location, adjustments to the touchdown web page, and probably the addition of recent subpages for customers that are not at present well-served.
👩💻 Improved developer assets
- We’ve got created a particular touchdown web page for Java builders: ethereum.org/java.
- As a result of many builders focus on a particular programming language, creating language-specific pages are a key developer evangelism and on-boarding approach.
- We’re engaged on further developer touchdown pages: see as an example the open-issues for /javascript and /python
- We’re near ending a brand new function of the web site that may permit builders to instantly bounce right into a “studio” the place they’ll 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.
- This may embrace creating extra well-documented points to make it simpler for open-source contributors to understand how they will help with the location’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.
