Welcome to the primary growth replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of a daily sequence of weblog posts retaining the neighborhood updated on the web site’s progress.
What have we been as much as?
👋 Hiring!
Once we rebooted ethereum.org earlier this year, it shortly turned clear that the web site wanted a full-time staff behind it to satisfy the neighborhood’s expectations. Over the summer season, we have prioritized constructing that staff to assist the web site into the long run. As we speak, we’re thrilled to announce that the EF has employed a full-time internet developer for ethereum.org: Sam Richards.
Sam’s function will probably 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 website positioning, 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 Crew
Considered one of 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 important that the 80% of people that don’t communicate English have entry to key assets.
Since saying this system, now we have been joined by 116 volunteers who’re working to translate the web site into 17 languages. A number of of those will probably be pushed dwell to the location 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 celebration assets: weblog posts, documentation, and different materials. We’re additionally working to make sure that ethereum.org itself is inbuilt a means that lets us add and revise translations easily and sustainably.
Concerned with contributing? Learn more about the ethereum.org Translation Program and get started here.
🛠 Fixing, merging, and updating
Since launch, now we have merged 102 pull requests, making many tweaks and modifications to the web site in response to neighborhood enter. Now that Sam has joined the staff, 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 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 paintings created by the Ethereum neighborhood – a means of showcasing the expertise in our ecosystem, and reminding the world that Ethereum is at all times progressing and bettering due to the contributions of our world neighborhood.
🎯 What’s subsequent?
Here is a preview of our priorities for the following 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 rookies, a web page for individuals who wish to use Ethereum, a web page for basic studying in regards to the venture, and a web page for builders.
- Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with a couple of months of fundamental person analytics knowledge, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the neighborhood, we’re reviewing the person personas for ethereum.org.
- As soon as full, this may possible lead us to a reorganization of the top-level construction of the location, modifications to the touchdown web page, and doubtlessly the addition of recent subpages for customers that are not at the moment 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 concentrate on a particular programming language, creating language-specific pages are a key developer evangelism and on-boarding method.
- We’re engaged on extra developer touchdown pages: see as an example the open-issues for /javascript and /python
- We’re near ending a brand new characteristic of the web site that may permit builders to right away 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 will profit from extra neighborhood 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 location’s growth. See all points tagged “good first issue”
- We have additionally created a twitter account for the website: @ethdotorg. This account will probably be used to share updates like this one, in addition to extra granular updates just like the addition of an amazing new useful resource or article, a brand new characteristic, an attention-grabbing pull request, and extra.
