Welcome to the primary improvement replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of an everyday sequence of weblog posts preserving 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 turned clear that the web site wanted a full-time group behind it to satisfy the group’s expectations. Over the summer time, we have prioritized constructing that group to assist the web site into the long run. Immediately, we’re thrilled to announce that the EF has employed a full-time net developer for ethereum.org: Sam Richards.
Sam’s function will likely be to steer all technical improvement 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 improvement, digital advertising and website positioning, and most not too long ago labored at an Ethereum pockets startup.
We’re extraordinarily excited for Sam to hitch the group – please be part of us in welcoming him to the EF!
♻️ Constructing the Translation Program and Workforce
One in every 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 vital that the 80% of people that don’t communicate English have entry to key assets.
Since asserting 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 likely be pushed stay 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 get together 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 adjustments 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 sooner. As all the time, improvement 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’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 all the time progressing and bettering due to the contributions of our world group.
🎯 What’s subsequent?
This is a preview of our priorities for the following few weeks:
🤔 Consumer persona evaluation and web site 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 mission, and a web page for builders.
- Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with a couple of months of primary consumer analytics knowledge, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the group, we’re reviewing the consumer personas for ethereum.org.
- As soon as full, this can 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 latest subpages for customers that are not at the moment well-served.
👩💻 Improved developer assets
- We’ve got created a selected touchdown web page for Java builders: ethereum.org/java.
- As a result of many builders concentrate on a selected 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 function of the web site that can permit builders to right away 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 mission administration is uncovered on Github, the place we will profit from extra group remark and enter.
- This can embrace creating extra well-documented points to make it simpler for open-source contributors to know the way they can assist with the location’s improvement. See all points tagged “good first issue”
- We have additionally created a twitter account for the website: @ethdotorg. This account will likely be used to share updates like this one, in addition to extra granular updates just like the addition of an excellent new useful resource or article, a brand new function, an attention-grabbing pull request, and extra.
