Welcome to the primary improvement replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of a daily collection of weblog posts protecting the group 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 grew to become clear that the web site wanted a full-time crew behind it to fulfill the group’s expectations. Over the summer time, we have prioritized constructing that crew to assist the web site into the long run. In the present day, 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 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 search engine optimisation, and most not too long ago labored at an Ethereum pockets startup.
We’re extraordinarily excited for Sam to hitch the crew – please be 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 important that the 80% of people that don’t communicate English have entry to key sources.
Since saying this system, we’ve got 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 location within the coming weeks.
As we proceed to scale up the interpretation effort, we’ll broaden our work to incorporate the interpretation of key third social gathering sources: weblog posts, documentation, and different materials. We’re additionally working to make sure that ethereum.org itself is inbuilt a manner that lets us add and revise translations easily and sustainably.
Enthusiastic about contributing? Learn more about the ethereum.org Translation Program and get started here.
🛠 Fixing, merging, and updating
Since launch, we’ve got merged 102 pull requests, making many tweaks and modifications to the web site in response to group enter. Now that Sam has joined the crew, we anticipate to have the ability to transfer a lot quicker. As all the time, improvement of ethereum.org occurs in our Github repo – test it out if you wish to comply with 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 manner 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?
This is a preview of our priorities for the following few weeks:
🤔 Consumer 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 normal studying concerning the undertaking, and a web page for builders.
- Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with a number of months of fundamental consumer analytics information, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the group, we’re reviewing the consumer personas for ethereum.org.
- As soon as full, this may doubtless 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 presently well-served.
👩💻 Improved developer sources
- 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 further 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 instantly 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 undertaking administration is uncovered on Github, the place we will profit from extra group remark and enter.
- This may embrace creating extra well-documented points to make it simpler for open-source contributors to understand how they might 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 shall be used to share updates like this one, in addition to extra granular updates just like the addition of a terrific new useful resource or article, a brand new characteristic, an fascinating pull request, and extra.