 and we are live. All right, thank you for joining the ethereum.org community call. For those of you who I haven't met, my name is Sam Richards. I'm a web developer at the Ethereum Foundation and I work primarily on ethereum.org. Also on the call is Josh Dyer, contain Kim who are contributors, members of the team as well. And you'll probably hear from them shortly. So I sent a link to the call agenda and notes in the Zoom chat. I believe it's also on the calendar invite if you wanna follow along. I can also share my screen just to go through some of these updates. So just to give you a format on the agenda today, we're basically gonna spend 10 minutes or so, just given quick updates on what's been going on with ethereum.org since our last call and then really spend the majority of the time kind of opening the floor to open discussion from you guys. What questions do you have? What feedback do you have? What feature or content requests do you wanna see on the site? Really hoping to use it as a time to get feedback from you guys. So I will share my screen. No, I want this issue to be on the presentation. It's in the mix and if you want to have a little screen, can we go on that, let me know if it's true. There's a lot of background noise on your mic and that sounds like someone talking in the back. Oh, I'm so sorry. I haven't realized that I'm on music. No problem. It's okay. Good to see you in that. Nice to see you. Yeah, for sure. So first up, we're just gonna like cover some followups from last time. One of the main discussions from our last community call on March 25th was really around just like content suggestions. Primarily, there's a lot of discussion around an Ethereum 2.0 page. Unfortunately, I can't say that's live yet, but we have made some pretty solid progress on it and are hoping to have that live within the next week or so. And that should be a really high value page. We've seen a lot of interest in that from the community. Pages that we did push live, we have added an aboutetherium.org page, which you could check out. That gives a lot of like granular look into what are the specific tasks we're working on? What's next in queue? What have we recently pushed to the site? Just one more avenue for you guys to follow along, get an understanding of like who's behind this and how you could get involved. We also launched an introduction to Ethereum improvement proposals and a page about the Ethereum Foundation to help give some clarity between, what is the difference of the Ethereum Foundation versus Ethereum itself and how that fits in. We've also done a lot of updates to existing pages. So yeah, if you haven't checked out the site recently, definitely encourage you to go check it out. Quickly going through updates on our end. So we recently published a blog post last week. You can check out the link here in the agenda. That covers I'd say the bulk of, what we've done over the past month. But just to cover the highlights, happy one year anniversary. Ethereum.org actually did relaunch just over a year ago. Crazy to think how far it's come. And I think we got some really great plans for the next year. So excited about that. In terms of development updates that I'll cover, just wanted to make note. We've also started essentially publishing releases on the website. So if we were to follow that link to GitHub, here you can see like the pull request by pull request updates that we're making to the site each week. So if you are eager to follow on or add input create issues, like this is a really good way to just see how we're progressing. I would say the contributions we made that generated the most buzz the past month was definitely adding IPFS support to the website. So any like that browser or even like a brave browser, any browser that supports ENS, you can now browse the site at ethereum.eath, which is pretty neat. We've also added a dramatically improved site search, which makes it really easy to find any content that exists anywhere on our website. You'll be able to search and find pretty easily. Lastly, we did just finish a really solid content audit with a group of developers from the community. We've dubbed these Tiger teams, which I believe is a NASA term, which is really just recruiting very specialized experts. In this case, it was various builders in the Ethereum ecosystem and got them to do like a deep dive feedback evaluation of the website, specifically focused on developer content and onboarding. And we got a ton of great feedback from those folks that will be pushing to the website soon. I think the major themes that we took away were just like, what is pretty obvious in hindsight, but really just focusing the content and gearing that towards user journeys. So instead of just like a landing page for all developers, creating a traffic control of sorts of like, hey, are you new and looking to get started? Here's where you should go. And here's resources to get up and running with the Ethereum stack. Are you an experienced developer looking for specific tools? Here's a place you can go to find the latest and greatest on that. So more to come on that, but wanted to give a shout out to the folks who helped us out there. And if you guys are interested in ever like participating in one of these content audits, it is something we're trying to do regularly. So feel free to, you know, hit us up on Twitter. I can drop in my email at the end of this and definitely don't feel free to reach out. Feel free to reach out and get involved. Other major area I'll throw it over to you, but we've been having a lot of great progress on the translation program and we have some updates there. Thank you, Sam. Can you hear me? Yep. Yeah. Thank you for contribution in the translation program. So I don't know like how many of you are already part of the translation program, but I know that Zhang is making a really great contribution in the French translation. And we really appreciate that. So yeah, like since we launched last October, we dated like a 23 language in Eastern York, and I'd like to expand our support to the other communities with a different language. So yeah, we set a goal for the quarter to supporting like over 30 language and yeah, like we're looking for more native speakers of Vietnamese, Thai, Danish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Finnish or Ukrainian. So if you are interested to join that will be very appreciative. And yeah. And also to love to hear more feedbacks and opinions on the translation program. So just briefly sharing our main focus at the moment as to recruit more volunteers from different language groups, including the seven languages that I mentioned earlier. So I've been reaching out to the like, original communities and event organizer to advertise our program in their country. So if India and East Bank have been helping us a lot to spread the world in their communication channels like Twitter and Facebook. So it was very effective to recruit a few volunteers. And we would like to connect with more community members that we don't have connection with yet. So if you know any please don't hesitate to reach out to me. And another thing is to keep volunteers motivated and make them feel appreciated. So that the remote volunteering work is very limited to show our show our appreciation and keeping them motivated to continue their work. So over the six months that yeah a lot of people joined and like 80% of people contribute on the first version like a version 1.0. Yeah, like now we only have like 20% of the participants that still keeping their contribution in the version 1.1. So I'm struggling to figure out how to motivate them to continue their work. So if you have any idea or feedback will be very appreciated. Great. Thank you, Tane. And yeah just to give some context on like how big of an impact. I think the translation program has. So if we look at like the first three months of this year. So.org had a little over half a million visitors. And we've seen the share of translated content just continue to rise in terms of like overall page views. You know we started rolling out the program in August. I think in October it was 3% of total page views. It was 12% and now we're at a point where over 20% of page views on the website are to translated content. So I think that really just speaks to just how important the program is at a whole and it's really exciting to see just how global of a community at the name has. Please feel free to reach out to us if you do have ideas or connections to like any organizations involved in technology, or just, you know, information access. I think if we can partner with the right communities like we could definitely hit our goal of translating 30 languages total. You know by the second half of this year. Okay, so last bit on the updates just looking ahead versus what we've done so far. I would say the theme is definitely just more of the same, like we'll be focused on more translations of the content content updates and design updates to the pages that exist on the site. And I would say we're really just starting to focus on and we've gotten a much better understanding of specific user journeys and like how to optimize towards those. So what I mean by that is like, initially we had this idea. Okay, yeah, we should talk about Ethereum wallets, because people want to learn about that. And we're learning, hey, we can actually like set goals around how many people actually like visit the website, view the wallets page and potentially like download a wallet and get using it. So focusing on like, what are specific user journeys that people are trying to accomplish and like how can we enable them as easy as possible, and start measuring against that. So we're just starting to get a lot more intelligent about how we think about content generally on the site. More new content. I'd say a big area of feedback we've gotten from you folks on calls like this, and doing, you know feedback interview sessions is just the need for more native content on the site. And more control over the translations, keeping that content fresh and up to date. So we'll really be focusing on how can we expand that how can we collaborate with more community members. I think, you know, shout out to a net who's also on this call, I feel like a big success story here was launching the introduction to EIP page I mentioned. That kind of happened organically in a telegram chat, we're talking about ways that we could improve the EIP process. Some other community members suggested adding a page on a theorem.org. I created a GitHub issue for it on our GitHub and a net volunteered to like lead with a draft of the content. And over the span of two weeks, you know, a handful of us were able to draft the page shared on the GitHub issue, and eventually deploy to the website. And now like, I think that's just a great example of how community members can get involved and like solve a need. And we'll definitely be thinking about you know how can we like continue to empower that how can we like create templates that just make it super seamless for someone to come in and nominate a page or actually draft a page itself. Lastly, along the theme of like looking for more translation program volunteers, we're going to be thinking through like how what are fun and exciting ways that we can give contributors acknowledgement and like give them public recognition. So one initiative we've been working on and hope to finish shortly is a collaboration with the PO app or Pope. I don't know how to pronounce it protocol, PO AP protocol, which issue NFTs, primarily for events. So we're going to be issuing tiers of NFT tokens to give to website contributors. And I think that's just an exciting way to kind of dog food the technology that we're working on. And, you know, we like get people excited about. Oh, I'm actually getting this tangible thing that I can show people, and it's completely unique. Chase just wrote something in the chat. Have you considered get coin grants for translations in the languages you're looking for help them. That's a really interesting thought. You know, we have. So we've used get coin bounties a lot in the past for specifically development work. And we've experimented with it a bit on content. But a get coin grant may be an interesting take on it. I was actually I was I was thinking about bounties. Actually, okay, got you got you. That's a really interesting topic. Yeah, and I would be curious to kind of open the floor to get you guys take on it. I think what's tough is up until now like our translation program and most contributions on the site have been like completely volunteer based. And it's been really great to see just like the number of people who have done it on their own, like, good will essentially like I think there's over 400 people in our translation project team correct me if I'm wrong. All those people have committed their time and energy for free. If we were to suddenly create bounties. I could see both sides of it I could see it's totally justified certain communities it's just harder to find people who have the time and energy and capacity to do this. I could also see potential conflict where, you know, previous volunteers might feel slighted in a way of like, hey, I contributed this stuff for free. And now all of a sudden these folks are getting paid to do so. I was curious what you guys think about that. I should just note maybe to so just know behind the scenes we we do work with a professional translation firm. And so all the translations that are done by volunteers are also like quality controlled by a transition firm. Sometimes when there's like gaps in one that's mostly done. They help us kind of fill in fill in the dots. So it is possible that you know we might expand the use of that firm to to kind of get languages done more quickly. We're trying to strike a balance between, you know, we want to make sure that that the website is available in as many languages as possible so that it's more accessible. But we also know that like being able to contribute to the site in this way is a pretty meaningful way for people to get involved in the theorem in the first place. And so we want to make sure that there's, you know, people have the opportunity to be like, oh, you know, I made a meaningful impact on making a good theory of content available to my language community is a thing we wouldn't want to kind of stop happening. So yeah, providing additional financial incentives for translators is something we're definitely looking into and would consider, but hasn't been like immediately on the horizon, but hopefully that background kind of gives you more context and how this all works. Yeah, any other thoughts on this point, I'm not sure if you have something to say I think you're muted right now. Okay, I can speak. Well, the occasional contributors there's a swarm of contributors who. Well, who translated the site in many different languages, but many of them are occasional. And then you have two or three guys who do. Two or three guys who do most of the work for a given language, maybe one, maybe only one who do 80, well, it's a perrito 80 person 20 person. You see, and these guys who the men guys got to keep it to keep them get to incentivize them and not only when NFTs or whatever. But with. Well, it's a whole package. See, you got to have them interested to keep them interested so that they contribute more and financial incentive incentivization is. Well, it's, it's a small part of that package, but it should be there too, I think. Okay, that's my point. Yeah, thank you. I think that's a really interesting perspective. Like, I can tell you, I frankly haven't looked into it to you and I don't know if you've done this analysis but looking language by language, I would be interested to see to your point john of like, is it one or two people who are doing the large majority of the translation, it probably is a few select people. So I do wonder if, yeah, whether it's just engaging them one on one individually and just like making sure we're acknowledging them and like asking for feedback and getting them excited in some way, whether it is, you know, public accolades or NFTs or financial incentive. It probably is worth keeping those, those like power users if you will, engaged. And also, sorry. And also, I know go go ahead. Yeah, I had a discussion with john last night about the translation program and yeah like Sam, you're right that the high quality translations were conducted by a few or just one key translators. And they usually complete the translation in a short period of time. So, yeah, I guess they like a higher performance is achieved because translators have more ownership and the risk of responsibility for the project. And if somebody already done this, the, like one documents that they try not to involve and translate within the same document. So, I think, yeah, this is good to find like those key translators and maybe yeah, like, giving our like, let's say incentive or the recommendations to those people. And also, these key translators, you could give them specific tasks. And huge events like translating the whole site, etc. The community events. But during these events you can detect the guys, the new guys, the new interesting guys who will, who, well, you want to keep them. And it's a detection system also. Right. Yeah, I think that I mean that's something that seems worth looking into and experimenting with like we don't know for sure what will be the ultimate motivator of these folks. I think if anything it might be worth just, you know, reaching out to these like power users power translators interviewing them, seeing what it is that motivates them, like maybe it is payment of some form. Maybe it is like giving them additional responsibility. Like maybe it's like, hey, we saw you've done a lot of translations, you've done a great job. The professional service doesn't even edit your content because it's so great. Maybe we can somehow give them a status like give them the ability to review so that like they become the maintainer of the French translation and or the Danish translation. And that's even like a promotion of sorts that they could, you know, put on their CV. It's something that shows progress on their end. Just an idea. Cool. Any other thoughts, open questions, discussions? Why are you guys here? What were you looking to get out of this call? What was exciting disappointing? Yeah, really looking for just any all feedback or input. We definitely don't need to stay the whole time. I would suggest we just ended early this month. I did drop in my email at the bottom of the notes document. Understand, you know, public zoom calls aren't always the best way to gather input from people. If you do have ideas or feedback obviously like GitHub issues are a great place to like, you know, suggest ideas and track progress of those. Feel free to hit us up on Twitter, email us directly, whatever, whatever makes sense to you. And thank you guys for joining and really appreciate you getting involved. John, thank you for your translations. I'm sure the French community appreciates your work. Yeah, thanks, John. It's great to, you know, we often don't get to actually meet the people who translate the site. So we appreciate you joining the call. It's good to kind of put a face to a username that I've seen in crowded before. Well, Taiyon told me to come over, so I came. It's a great suggestion. Awesome. Great. Cool. Thanks so much. Thanks guys.