Welcome to the primary improvement replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of an everyday sequence of weblog posts conserving the neighborhood 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 staff behind it to satisfy the neighborhood’s expectations. Over the summer time, we have prioritized constructing that staff to assist the web site into the longer term. At this time, we’re thrilled to announce that the EF has employed a full-time net developer for ethereum.org: Sam Richards.
Sam’s function shall be to guide 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 marketing and search engine optimisation, and most just lately labored at an Ethereum pockets startup.
We’re extraordinarily excited for Sam to affix the staff – 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 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 sources.
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 shall be pushed dwell to the positioning within the coming weeks.
As we proceed to scale up the interpretation effort, we’ll increase our work to incorporate the interpretation of key third get together sources: weblog posts, documentation, and different materials. We’re additionally working to make sure that ethereum.org itself is in-built a approach that lets us add and revise translations easily and sustainably.
Focused on 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 neighborhood enter. Now that Sam has joined the staff, we count on to have the ability to transfer a lot quicker. As at all times, improvement 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 approach of showcasing the expertise in our ecosystem, and reminding the world that Ethereum is at all times progressing and bettering because of the contributions of our world neighborhood.
🎯 What’s subsequent?
This is a preview of our priorities for the following few weeks:
🤔 Person persona evaluation and web site restructuring
- After we launched the brand new ethereum.org, we began with 4 easy subpages: a web page for novices, a web page for individuals who need to use Ethereum, a web page for normal 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 consumer analytics knowledge, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the neighborhood, we’re reviewing the consumer personas for ethereum.org.
- As soon as full, it will possible lead us to a reorganization of the top-level construction of the positioning, adjustments to the touchdown web page, and probably the addition of recent subpages for customers that are not at the moment well-served.
👩💻 Improved developer sources
- We have now created a particular touchdown web page for Java builders: ethereum.org/java.
- As a result of many builders focus 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 for example 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 leap 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 are able to profit from extra neighborhood remark and enter.
- It will embrace creating extra well-documented points to make it simpler for open-source contributors to know the way they may also help with the positioning’s improvement. See all points tagged “good first issue”
- We have additionally created a twitter account for the website: @ethdotorg. This account shall 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.