Welcome to the primary growth replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of a daily sequence 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 crew behind it to satisfy the group’s expectations. Over the summer time, we have prioritized constructing that crew 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 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 search engine marketing, and most just lately 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 Group
One in all 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 earth, and it’s crucial that the 80% of people that don’t communicate English have entry to key assets.
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 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 celebration assets: weblog posts, documentation, and different materials. We’re additionally working to make sure that ethereum.org itself is in-built a means that lets us add and revise translations easily and sustainably.
Excited by 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 modifications 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 quicker. As at all times, growth of ethereum.org occurs in our Github repo – test it out if you wish to comply with 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 art work created by the Ethereum group – a means 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 international group.
🎯 What’s subsequent?
This is a preview of our priorities for the subsequent 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 learners, a web page for individuals who wish to use Ethereum, a web page for common studying concerning the undertaking, and a web page for builders.
- Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with just a few months of fundamental person analytics knowledge, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the group, we’re reviewing the person personas for ethereum.org.
- As soon as full, this may seemingly lead us to a reorganization of the top-level construction of the positioning, modifications 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 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 illustration 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 soar 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 undertaking administration is uncovered on Github, the place we are able to profit from extra group remark and enter.
- This can embody creating extra well-documented points to make it simpler for open-source contributors to understand how 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 a fantastic new useful resource or article, a brand new function, an fascinating pull request, and extra.
