Welcome to the primary growth replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of a daily sequence of weblog posts maintaining the group updated on the web site’s progress.

What have we been as much as?

👋 Hiring!

Once we rebooted ethereum.org earlier this yr, it shortly grew to become clear that the web site wanted a full-time workforce behind it to fulfill the group’s expectations. Over the summer season, we have prioritized constructing that workforce to help the web site into the longer term. Right this moment, we’re thrilled to announce that the EF has employed a full-time net developer for ethereum.org: Sam Richards.

Sam’s position might be to guide 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 marketing and search engine optimisation, and most lately labored at an Ethereum pockets startup.

We’re extraordinarily excited for Sam to affix the workforce – please be a part of us in welcoming him to the EF!

♻️ Constructing the Translation Program and Staff

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 essential that the 80% of people that don’t converse English have entry to key sources.

Since saying 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 might 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 sources: weblog posts, documentation, and different materials. We’re additionally working to make sure that ethereum.org itself is inbuilt a approach that lets us add and revise translations easily and sustainably.

Keen on contributing? Study extra concerning the ethereum.org Translation Program and get began right here.

🛠 Fixing, merging, and updating

Since launch, now we have merged 102 pull requests, making many tweaks and modifications to the web site in response to group enter. Now that Sam has joined the workforce, we count on to have the ability to transfer a lot sooner. As at all times, growth 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 paintings for the homepage. Each few months, we’ll replace the web site with new paintings created by the Ethereum group – a approach of showcasing the expertise in our ecosystem, and reminding the world that Ethereum is at all times progressing and enhancing because of the contributions of our international group.

🎯 What’s subsequent?

Here is a preview of our priorities for the following few weeks:

🤔 Consumer persona evaluation and web site restructuring

• Once we launched the brand new ethereum.org, we began with 4 easy subpages: a web page for newbies, a web page for individuals who need to use Ethereum, a web page for common studying concerning the challenge, and a web page for builders.
• Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with a couple of months of fundamental person analytics knowledge, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the group, 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, modifications to the touchdown web page, and doubtlessly the addition of latest subpages for customers that are not at present 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 specialise in 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 illustration the open-issues for /javascript and /python

• We’re near ending a brand new characteristic of the web site that may enable builders to instantly 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 challenge administration is uncovered on Github, the place we are able to profit from extra group remark and enter.
• This can embody creating extra well-documented points to make it simpler for open-source contributors to understand how they may also help with the location’s growth. See all points tagged “good first subject”
• We have additionally created a twitter account for the web site: @ethdotorg. This account might be used to share updates like this one, in addition to extra granular updates just like the addition of an amazing new useful resource or article, a brand new characteristic, an fascinating pull request, and extra.