Welcome to the primary growth replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of an everyday sequence of weblog posts holding 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 grew to become clear that the web site wanted a full-time group behind it to fulfill the group’s expectations. Over the summer season, we have prioritized constructing that group to help the web site into the long run. As we speak, we’re thrilled to announce that the EF has employed a full-time net 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 net 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 group – 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 essentially 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 assets.
Since saying this system, we’ve 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 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 celebration assets: 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.
Inquisitive about contributing? Be taught extra in regards to the ethereum.org Translation Program and get began right here.
🛠 Fixing, merging, and updating
Since launch, we’ve merged 102 pull requests, making many tweaks and modifications to the web site in response to group enter. Now that Sam has joined the group, we count on to have the ability to transfer a lot quicker. 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 paintings 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 due to 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 freshmen, a web page for individuals who wish to use Ethereum, a web page for common studying in regards to the venture, and a web page for builders.
- Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with a number of months of fundamental consumer analytics knowledge, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the group, we’re reviewing the consumer personas for ethereum.org.
- As soon as full, it will doubtless lead us to a reorganization of the top-level construction of the positioning, modifications to the touchdown web page, and doubtlessly the addition of latest subpages for customers that are not at the moment 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 approach.
- We’re engaged on extra 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 may 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 venture 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 might help with the positioning’s growth. See all points tagged “good first challenge”
- We have additionally created a twitter account for the web site: @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 ideal new useful resource or article, a brand new function, an fascinating pull request, and extra.
