 Hello everyone. Thanks for joining the ethereum.org April community call. On this call we'll mostly be focusing on some of our ongoing and upcoming Q2 initiatives that we'll be focusing on in the coming months. In case you've missed it we just published our Q2 roadmap. This week and it's full of interesting work we're all very excited to get to. I've just shared the link in the chat so feel free to check out our Q2 roadmap and reach out if you'd like to get involved with any of these initiatives. Before we go through the agenda for today's call though let's start with the usual clarification that this is a community call for ethereum.org not for the ethereum foundation or the ethereum protocol. We want to use these calls to keep our community up to date with what we've shipped what we're working on and how you can get involved as well as hear from all of you so feel free to share any input feedback ideas or questions you might have in the chat or in any of the relevant channels here on discord. So here's a quick overview of what we'll cover on today's call. First of all Joshua has a very special announcement and introduction to the newest member of our team. Next up Joseph will be talking about how we've revamped the upgrade section on the site and introduced the new roadmap section that covers the ethereum protocol roadmap. After that Corwin will cover GitHub maintenance and our approach to keeping up with all of the issues in PRs in the ethereum.org repo. Corwin will also introduce two new features we'll be working on specifically the community call widget which will show previous and upcoming community calls on the site and the learning quizzes hub with where we're planning on improving and expanding the learning quizzes currently available on the site. Next up I'll be talking about our efforts to move beyond translating just text and how we'll be approaching localization of images and infographics on the site as well as dubbing videos to make visual content more accessible as well. And finally Joshua will give an overview of the writing cohort that we announced yesterday and provide some more details on that. And as usual some quick announcements and callouts at the end in case any of you are attending ethereum conferences next month and want to meet up with us. Before we get into it I also wanted to mention that the po-app distribution for this call will be a bit different today so everyone who wants to claim the po-app will need the po-app app on their mobile. So if you don't have the app installed please take some time visit the app store download the po-app app set it up by adding your address or ENS so you will be ready to claim when the time comes. If you need any help with downloading or setting up the app please let us know in the chat. And with that out of the way we can get started so at this point I'm gonna hand it over to Joshua and Isabella. Hey everyone hope you can hear me okay. Yeah just a brief one from me and maybe I'm not sure if Isabella will want to say anything but I'm super excited to introduce our new community lead, Isabella. The hiring process. Yes can you all hear me okay? Okay uh Isabella have temporarily muted you because we had a bit of echo going on but yeah as I was saying yeah the hiring process for this position was pretty intense to say the least. We had over I believe 600 applications for the role that probably hundreds of interviews with tons of amazing people and I know there were many many people in the community who are very excited about this role and it was definitely hard for us to disappoint so many awesome people along the way. Yeah so if you did apply for the role just know we'd probably do something you're awesome. Still we're really happy with the choice we made and we think that Isabella will be a great addition to the core team with our understanding of Ethereum and its ecosystem as well as the passion she has for helping web free communities thrive. So moving forward Isabella will be working hard to make her community more connected, more engaged. You'll be the go-to person as we shape the future of the community so if you're interested in getting more involved in some way or if you have feedback you want to share let her know and we'll see how we can help. So I hope I speak for everyone and giving Isabella a big warm welcome we're stoked to have her on the team and we can't wait to see the amazing things we'll be able to accomplish. So yeah welcome Isabella, feel free to add as little or as little or as little as you want. Thanks a million Joshua can everyone hear me okay or is this to us some effort? We can hear you. Okay good. I can just hear you. That's all. Thanks a million Joshua for being true. Hi everyone. I'm super happy to be here and chatting to chat with you all. My name is Isabella. I just joined the Ethereum.org core team and my main focus like Joshua mentioned will be coordinating all things related to community. I've been working in the web three space since 2021 and I actually got to know Ethereum.org last year thanks to Lucas' presentation at DevCon Bogota about the translation program. So as you can probably tell English is not my mother language. I can fluently speak two variants of Portuguese and I know a little bit of Spanish as well. It's a bit rusty but I can speak some words. So supporting the community and in the efforts of translating and making content, educational resources and overall opportunities available for everyone is definitely a very dear cause to Ethereum.org. The way I see Ethereum.org it's much more than this courting that it's in this call right now. It's much more than a website. It's a community. It's a community contributing through various areas with the skills and the knowledge each one of you have towards the advancement of the Ethereum ecosystem. So in this infinite garden my role is pretty much to be a gardener helping you all guiding like showing the ways that like who folks can contribute, listening to your feedback, ideas so please don't hesitate to reach out to me with any contribution ideas feedback how do you want to get involved. You for sure hear a lot from from us very soon but like I said Ethereum.org is a community and you're definitely part of it and we need you all to make things happen. So and you definitely hear a lot towards today through the community call about a roadmap for Q2 and so on. So excited to be chatting with you all very very soon and thank you so much for the warm welcome. Thank you and welcome to the team Isabella. Next up we've got Joseph talking about the updates that we've made to the upgrades pages and how that's turned into the Ethereum protocol roadmap section. Over to you Joseph. Thanks Luca hopefully you can see my screen. Yeah okay so this epic aimed to make accessible content that explains all the upcoming upgrades coming to Ethereum in the future spanning the near term all the way into the far future. The reason is because it can be difficult to grasp all the various ways that Ethereum is expected to change and part of that is because the upgrades are often very technical and related to specific pieces of the protocol or sometimes just because they're shrouded in kind of an accessible jargon. Right so we try to we try to address that issue by designing a whole new section of the website that goes through all the major upgrades that we expect to see in Ethereum's future and explain them in a way that guides new users from the highest level concepts right down to the low level details in a kind of welcoming way. So practically what that means is that we have this new roadmap landing page that you can see on my screen right now and this is where you can you can kind of discover why Ethereum has a roadmap and how it's managed and why it's important and we've had these four cards on the page where you can see the benefits that these upgrades on the roadmap are going to deliver to Ethereum users and if you want more information about how those user benefits are going to work you can click through. So for example click through on cheaper transactions and it takes you into this slightly more detailed page and you can understand the specific problems that are being addressed and at a high level the solutions that we're expecting to be implemented to resolve them. From those pages you can also click through again into some more detailed technical information about specific upgrades and these are the pages where we sort of get into the nitty-gritty of EIP numbers and digging into parts of the protocol that are being changed and how they're being changed at much finer resolution than in the previous pages and then if you really want to get even more technical still those pages should provide enough context and conceptual knowledge that you can go and actually read the EIP documents or some technical documentation or maybe even some of the client code or something to really really drop the fine details. So that was the idea with this EPIC to guide people through from the very high-level introductory information about Thumes upgrades right through to the low-level technical details. We've tried to make it all as aesthetic as possible and lay them out in a kind of user-friendly way and give a good experience to especially to new beginner Etherians and Nuno's also been experimenting with some new AI illustrations using mid-journey that are going to be pushed on to these pages very soon just to make it look even nicer. Okay that's it happy reading remember that these pages are pretty fresh so there are probably improvements that can be made and if you're inclined then please please come and get involved on github and look forward to seeing any community contributions. Thank you very much and back to you Luca. Thank you Joseph great work on revamping this section of the website and a big plus one to the call out that if people want to read through this these pages and end up spotting a typo or a potential improvement PRs and issues in our repo are always very very welcome. Next up well we've got Corwin talking about a number of things so github maintenance community call widget and learning quizzes help take us away Corwin. You taught me myself can you guys see my screen okay? Yes awesome all right hey everyone um so one of our epics that we had last quarter that we'll be also carrying over as github maintenance never ends was a github maintenance epic so part of what we did last quarter was release some actual documentation on what our issued triage process should and will continue to look like so basically we've outlined what it takes for an issue to be taken out of eating triage and the assignment process for whether it's a core team or a community member working on an issue at any given time so I'll share these links after just because I'm sharing my screen kind of weird but just you know we've launched a github issued triage process that we're looking to follow. We've also added a deploy and pull request review process which kind of outlines the different types of contributions we get at any given time on the repo and kind of an expected timeline on what we aimed to do reviews for with those different types so not all PRs are created equally some take less time than others to review and we tried to outline a fair and accurate kind of like timeline on which we aim to um deliver these reviews on now we say that but looking at our numbers we have 77 open pull requests 283 issues are we actually maintaining the repo I think that's a fair question to ask and we've done just looking at some of our github activity in the last month just outlined that we have been maintaining it and we still have more to go at any given month we have roughly 100 active members and it's kind of leveled off especially with the fair market of that we're currently living through but we have roughly 100 members at any given month contributing to ethereum.org and these have to do with individual PRs and issues open by contributors so as you can see we get roughly 100 pull requests from contributors every month as well as I think if I go to the bottom here I think it's a better graph which outlines so we have yeah like I was saying about 100 pull requests opened every month by community members and about 100 opened by the core team so thinking about that that's about 200 pull requests a month that we get coming in at any given time 77 open and that's been the case for a few months at this point I think we can say we're doing a pretty good job at maintaining the github at this point we still have to do some more work on allocating resources to this and that has been something we talked about and we'll be doing in q2 and moving forward is making sure that the core team spends a bit more time allocating some of their time to helping maintain the github repository that being said though these numbers look high but I think it paints a different picture when you look at how active our community and how active this project is if we get 200 pull requests a month and we're sitting at 77 months later I think we're doing a pretty good job still maintaining this repo but that paints picture of what we did last quarter what are we looking to do moving forward if I already mentioned that we're going to be adding more resources to helping maintain this we also want to kind of add some clarification to the community when they're interacting with the repository so some of the things that that looks like is we'll be auditing our tagging system here our labels I guess what they're called in github but auditing our labels and looking to improve the github actions that label our issues and pull requests this will make it easier for whether it's contributors or the core team looking to review things quickly being able to filter down into different areas of the repo that maybe they have more expertise in and can find where their time would be best spent easier other things we're going to be looking into is adding github actions to actually share these triage and review processes on pull requests and issues themselves to help communicate and set better expectations for everyone in the community as they're contributing but that's largely been like yeah where we've gone and where we're going when it comes to github maintenance and again I think it was really cool to kind of come back and look at this graph of comparing literally what's open by the community and what's open by the team and we're basically at like a 50-50 split at this point which is pretty pretty incredible honestly like we got a lot of community contributions and that kind of shows how much you guys help drive the site as much as the core team does so that's all I have to touch on with github maintenance next up I'll talk about the community events widget that we're looking to add I was hoping to get this done for today but I did not unfortunately ran into some issues with Google APIs but an overview of what we're looking to build here is a widget that's going to start living on at least the homepage of theorem.org but we'll be able to put in other places and what this widget is going to basically do is call out when our next call a community call of some sort is whether it's well the next call out we're going to be hosting whether it's a community call a design community call office hours whatever that looks like what we're going to do is be putting this into a calendar pulling that data and displaying it in this component that will allow you guys to see what's coming up also will allow you to take these events and add them onto your calendar in case that is something that is beneficial and helpful for anyone trying to plan their days and then after this I'm also presenting on our learn quizzes so as some of you if you've been coming to our community calls regularly probably know and if you don't we have quizzes at the end of a number of pages on ethereum.org and the idea behind these were to basically take the content that was on a page build a quiz around that content to help make sure that user who came and read this content understood what they just read so these quizzes are built off of the content that you would see on a given page not necessarily just like random questions about a topic so as long as there's content to support a question that's what you'll see in a quiz we had a relatively good success coming with this we've had uh well relatively we've had pretty like tremendous success with it we have tens of thousands of people who have taken these quizzes since we launched it in I believe it was November or December last year and from there we're looking to kind of build on top of what we've done with the quizzes and extend this into a quiz hub so instead of needing to visit individual pages you'll then be able to just come to a quiz hub and see all the quizzes that we have on ethereum.org and the idea is that we're looking to build more interactivity into ethereum.org and by building out this I guess like hub for you to test your knowledge this will be a step for us to like validate building user interactivity on ethereum.org more this also allows you to get a quick glimpse of how you've done on previous quizzes um see what quizzes you haven't done and allows you to like find content on the site and quizzes to test your knowledge on the site that maybe you didn't know was there before um so we're excited to work on this this quarter and get the shipped out so that we can have a hub to build on um moving forward with this we're going to be opening up a new issue template um around adding quiz content onto the website as well as a contributing guide for how to add quiz content onto the website so while we may be taking on building this hub we're definitely looking for contributions on adding quizzes throughout the website um moving forward so that this hub can be fully flushed out with quizzes on all our pages um that's all I got so I'll be passing this back to Luca but thanks everyone thanks Corwin adding stuff come into ethereum.org next up it's uh my turn and as you're probably used to by now I'll be talking about translations if you have been part of our community for some time you'll know that we take localization very seriously and strongly believe that providing educational resources in multiple languages is a simple yet impactful way of educating more people about ethereum and onboarding more people to the space regardless of the language they speak the result of our commitment to localization is the fact that ethereum.org is currently available in 54 languages and non-english page views account for over a quarter of all visits to the website this year alone and it's not even end of april yet we've had over one million unique page views on the site in languages other than english this clearly shows the demand for educational resources in other languages is there and people want to read and learn about ethereum in their native language so this quarter we are leveling up our efforts to provide content in different languages the first such initiative is an exploration into translating all kinds of images and infographics there's a lot of diagrams and infographics on the website but they're currently only available in english which means when someone is viewing the site in another language they might be able to understand all of the text since it's available in their language but not the english images automatically using google translate or another similar translation feature is also not the easiest to use on images as you would have to download the image in question upload it to google translate and then also trust that the machine translations are correct so it's kind of a long-winded way of getting translations for images to address this we have compared different ways of localizing images of any kind came up with a process converted all of the existing images on the site that contain any text into a translatable format and we'll be uploading these images for translation to crowd in next week so during the may source code source content update while we still have to do some work on the dev site to properly implement translated images in different languages we expect to have the first batch of translated images on the site available sometime in may once we have an established process for translating images and adding them to the site we'll also be able to add more visual elements like infographics and diagrams in the future hopefully making some of the content more visually appealing for our international audience if you are a one of our translators helping to translate the site content in crowd in you will soon see these images for translation in crowd in and translating them will be just as simple as straightforward as translating any other text and if any of you are involved with other projects and would like to translate some of your visual content also feel free to reach out to us we're always happy to share any of our findings or help out with localization efforts of any kind at this moment i'm just gonna briefly share my screen so i can show you a very concrete example of this so this is a regular image we have on the accounts page in the developer docs this is the english version of the accounts page so all of the text is in english the image is in english if we switch to for example chinese you can see this page is fully translated into chinese but the image is still in english so that's the current state of things that's where we're moving on from um and we have a good example of a translated image already on the website this was created by wackaro and this is the merge infographic so this is the merge page in english the infographic is available in english but once you change the language into chinese again you can see the whole page is translated into chinese and so is the infographic so this is the state we want to get to with all images infographics diagrams any visual content on the website really so this is coming up a lot of these images or all of these images are going to be available for translation starting next week a lot of are already going to be translated sometime later on in may and moving on uh the next epic that we'll be working on and i want to cover is video dubbing so very similar to the previous point we also link out to a lot of explainer videos on the site for simplified explanations of certain concepts and easier learning through visual content some examples of these include kinematics videos and other videos explaining basic blockchain concepts again while a certain page might be available in a different language the lid the video we link out to is currently only available in english but with the rising popularity and quality of ai dubbing tools we'll be comparing different options to transcribe translate and dub some of these videos in other languages while the work on the video dubbing epic has not started yet i'm personally very excited about the potential that tools like this can have for providing more accessible and inclusive content to everyone at the moment it's much easier to imagine a world where you open a video select a language and listen to the video in your native language than even a couple of years ago the tools for this already exist and some content creators are already using the technology to provide the videos they create in different languages thereby making their content more accessible and also attracting new viewers who might not have been able to watch this content in english because of their limited fluency in the language as part of this epic we'll look into and compare all the different tools that enable video dubbing create a process on how we want to handle this in a sustainable and scalable way and just start dubbing some videos the end goal of both of these epics is also quite similar which is having the ability to provide any type of content in as many languages as possible in my view this is one of the easiest ways to help educate more people from all over the world about ethereum and when it comes to new technologies everything starts with education so if you'd like to get involved with this effort for example if you have experience with video dubbing or you are a content creator feel free to reach out to us and if you're simply someone who likes to learn by watching videos i guess keep an eye out for a whole bunch of ethereum videos becoming more accessible and available in different languages very soon that's it for me on this um on these two epics and moving on we have josh who's going to be giving out some uh po-apps and also sharing out sharing more details about the writing cohort that we just announced yesterday um over to you josh so thank you luka for sharing my screen yeah so as luka mentioned at the start of the call we do need everyone to have their po-app apps on their phone i know you can get it on the ios store or on the google play store if you're available at other places as well but that is the only way to claim this po-app as far as i know if anyone knows otherwise then let me know um but i've created a little guide for people so if you get your apps or if you just look and then you can download your app later uh it's fairly straightforward though i just did it and found it a little bit frustrating um so sorry about that but we're trying it for this time maybe we'll go back to the old way on the next call so yeah po-app and when you open it there's this little mint button down the bottom and you need to select the secret word which will bring you to this screen here um our secret word is welcome dash isabella i'm just putting in the chat as well so if you put that word in and then hit mint it will take you to this screen and this here is the frustrating part um basically you need to select the numbers all the way up to a thousand it only takes like a minute but i found it quite annoying so just keep going if you make a mistake it's fine you've got lots of lives just don't use them all and when you get to a thousand which will take you a while um you'll get to this screen like you know it's being minted and eventually the mint will happen so um apologies again if this if you find this annoying also apologies to people who do not have the po-app app or don't have a phone that they can download it on um but if an oversight on our end hopefully everyone can get their claim linked if you can for some reason maybe dme and i can try and sort something out after the call um but for now this is the best way to do it um so i'll continue talking while people are claiming their po-app math in the morning yes indeed okay on to the next thing this one i'm really excited about so ethereum.org is running a writing cohort we've partnered with taptive to run a three-week cohort where a bunch of ethereum.org community members and core team members can come together um learn how to write better through writing tips and guides get feedback and support from the people at taptive or in the cohort and hopefully have a good time quick word on taptive um taptive run rain cohorts for communities that's literally the elevator pitch you can see from their website it's all about teaching people how to write better and i can imagine there are people here thinking like i don't care about writing why would this interest me um i would say even if you don't want to be a writer or aren't trying to start a blog or something else like that the writing cohorts can still be massively beneficial for just a couple of hours of time investment um and the whole philosophy behind taptive is this idea that clear writing equals clear thinking you know clear writing is clear thinking i'm sure everyone here has used another person as a sounding board to develop an idea in their heads similar sort of thing can happen when you write something out so even if you don't want to write but you want to articulate your ideas better then this writing cohort could benefit you um that being said everyone is a writer you text you send dms you reply on twitter so definitely check it out personally i participated in the bankless writing cohort in september i believe last year and i feel rave about how much better it made my writing and even how i think about problems sometimes and so the founder grant he's helping facilitate it he's an amazing teacher and writer he'll be facilitating the whole cohort for us making sure everyone has the support they need to get the most out of the experience um so yeah given the hard sell there that i mentioned it's completely free um ethereum.org is as good a resource as it is because of thousands of people from the community who've devoted their time to improving it in some small way so that's just one way we would like to give back by helping community members improve the writing ability they are writing better writing habits develop clear thinking you don't need any experience or skills in writing if you are interested in improving your writing skills or hanging out with a bunch of like-minded people from the community then we would really love for you to join us so i'll drop this link in the chat it literally takes 30 seconds to sign up quicker than claiming your pull-up just drop in your disc reducer name and your email and we can get you on board to the cohort which starts on may 11. I look forward to seeing you there i'll pass it back over to lika thanks joshua so that concludes our regular part of the call we have some miscellaneous announcements and callouts mainly focusing on events so may is going to be full of ethereum conferences hackathons different events some members on the team are going to be at eth lisbon some members on the team are going to be at eth dublin some are going to be at etkon in montenegro so if any of you are visiting any of those events please reach out to us we'd be happy to meet up at these events if we do get more um multiple community members if we do get a larger part of our community there we would also love to organize some some hangout or an informal ethereum.org meet up or whatever form that takes but um yeah if you'll be at any ethereum conference slash event in may feel free to reach out to us we'd be happy to meet up and the the last announcement is as always the may community call is going to happen at the end of may most likely the last thursday in may we'll create the event and send out the announcement for that by the end of this week most likely so yeah that pretty much concludes the community call if anyone has any questions feedback input ideas anything for us feel free to drop them in the chat or speak up if if you want to um but yeah happy to meet some of you in person at a conference next month potentially and if not see you all on the interwebs thanks for joining the community call and see you all at the next