Welcome to the primary growth replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of an everyday collection of weblog posts retaining the group updated on the web site’s progress.
What have we been as much as?
👋 Hiring!
After we rebooted ethereum.org earlier this year, it rapidly grew to become clear that the web site wanted a full-time crew behind it to fulfill the group’s expectations. Over the summer season, we have prioritized constructing that crew to assist the web site into the longer term. At the moment, we’re thrilled to announce that the EF has employed a full-time internet 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 internet growth, digital advertising and marketing and search engine optimisation, and most not too long ago labored at an Ethereum pockets startup.
We’re extraordinarily excited for Sam to affix the crew – please be a part of us in welcoming him to the EF!
♻️ Constructing the Translation Program and Crew
One in all 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 earth, and it’s crucial that the 80% of people that don’t communicate English have entry to key sources.
Since saying this system, we’ve got 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 are going to increase 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 method that lets us add and revise translations easily and sustainably.
Curious about contributing? Learn more about the ethereum.org Translation Program and get started here.
🛠 Fixing, merging, and updating
Since launch, we’ve got merged 102 pull requests, making many tweaks and adjustments to the web site in response to group enter. Now that Sam has joined the crew, 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 observe alongside extra carefully, 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 paintings created by the Ethereum group – a method of showcasing the expertise in our ecosystem, and reminding the world that Ethereum is all the time progressing and enhancing 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
- After 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 wish to use Ethereum, a web page for basic studying concerning the challenge, and a web page for builders.
- Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with just a few months of primary consumer analytics information, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the group, we’re reviewing the consumer personas for ethereum.org.
- As soon as full, this may seemingly 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 got created a selected touchdown web page for Java builders: ethereum.org/java.
- As a result of many builders specialise in 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 as an 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 instantly leap 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 will profit from extra group remark and enter.
- It will embody creating extra well-documented points to make it simpler for open-source contributors to know the way they will 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 fascinating pull request, and extra.