Welcome to the primary improvement replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of an everyday collection of weblog posts retaining 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 shortly turned clear that the web site wanted a full-time group behind it to satisfy the neighborhood’s expectations. Over the summer time, we have prioritized constructing that group to help the web site into the long run. At present, we’re thrilled to announce that the EF has employed a full-time internet developer for ethereum.org: Sam Richards.
Sam’s position will probably 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 internet improvement, digital advertising and web optimization, and most lately 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 probably the most used programmable blockchain on the earth, and it’s important that the 80% of people that don’t converse English have entry to key assets.
Since saying this system, we now 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 reside to the location within the coming weeks.
As we proceed to scale up the interpretation effort, we are going to develop our work to incorporate the interpretation of key third occasion 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.
All for contributing? Learn more about the ethereum.org Translation Program and get started here.
🛠 Fixing, merging, and updating
Since launch, we now 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 group, 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 are going to replace the web site with new art work 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 enhancing due to the contributions of our world neighborhood.
🎯 What’s subsequent?
This is a preview of our priorities for the subsequent few weeks:
🤔 Person persona evaluation and website 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 normal studying in regards to the mission, and a web page for builders.
- Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with just a few months of primary 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 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 presently well-served.
👩💻 Improved developer assets
- Now we have 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 illustration 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 leap 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 mission administration is uncovered on Github, the place we are able to profit from extra neighborhood remark and enter.
- This can embody creating extra well-documented points to make it simpler for open-source contributors to understand how they may help 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 probably be used to share updates like this one, in addition to extra granular updates just like the addition of an important new useful resource or article, a brand new characteristic, an fascinating pull request, and extra.
