Blog: Add Blog To Bitcoin.org

* Adds new page /en/blog * Adds new feed for blog posts to /en/rss/blog.xml * Adds "Blog" link to site footer * Adds three back-dated blog posts to give the blog some initial content.
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@ -612,3 +612,34 @@ aliases:
  --author=Satoshi Nakamoto: Satoshi Nakamoto
  gavinandresen: Gavin Andresen
 ```
+
+### Blog Posts
+
+Posts for the [Bitcoin.org Site Blog][] should be added to the `_posts`
+directory with the naming convention:
+`YEAR-MONTH-DAY-ARBITRARY_FILE_NAME` (with year, month, and day as
+two-digit numbers).  The YAML front matter should be similar to this:
+
+    ---
+    type: posts
+    layout: post
+    lang: en
+    category: blog
+
+    title: "Quarterly Report March 2015"
+    permalink: /en/posts/quarterly-report-march-2015.html
+    date: 2015-03-05
+    author: >
+      David A. Harding (<a href="mailto:dave@dtrt.org">email</a>, <a
+      href="https://github.com/harding">GitHub</a>,
+      <a href="http://www.reddit.com/user/harda/">Reddit</a>)
+    ---
+
+The type, layout, and category should always be as specified above. The
+other parameters should be set to values specific to that post, but the
+permalink must end in '.html'.
+
+Below the YAML front matter, enter the content of the post in Markdown
+format.  Images should be placed in `img/blog/free` if they are
+MIT-licensed or `img/blog/nonfree` if they have a more restrictive
+copyright license.
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@ -165,7 +165,10 @@ aliases:

 safe:        false
 port: 4000
+## Used in older version of Jekyll
 base-url:    /
+## Used in newer versions of Jekyll
+baseurl:    /

 source:      .
 destination: ./_site
--- a/_contrib/bco-htmlproof
+++ b/_contrib/bco-htmlproof
@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ HTML::Proofer.new(
        ## require updating
        :href_swap => {
          ## (Hack) Append '$' to the ends of filenames we don't want to append .html to
-          /(css|png|rss|pdf|jpg|asc)$/ => '\1$',
+          /(css|png|rss|pdf|jpg|asc|xml)$/ => '\1$',

          ## Append .html to end of most URLs so proofer can find the local files
          /^(
--- a/_layouts/base.html
+++ b/_layouts/base.html
@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
    {% endcase %}
    <a href="/{{ page.lang }}/{% translate press url %}">{% translate menu-press layout %}</a>
    <a href="/{{ page.lang }}/{% translate about-us url %}">{% translate menu-about-us layout %}</a>
+    <a href="/en/blog">Blog</a>
    </div>
    <div class="footersponsor">
      <div><span>{% translate sponsor layout %}</span> <a href="https://bitcoinfoundation.org/"><img src="/img/brand/bitcoinfoundation.png" alt="Bitcoin Foundation"></a></div>
--- a/_layouts/post.html
+++ b/_layouts/post.html
@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+---
+# This file is licensed under the MIT License (MIT) available on
+# http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
+
+layout: base
+lang: en
+---
+<div class="subhead-links"><a href="/en/blog">Blog home</a>
+| <a href="/en/rss/blog.xml">Subscribe to RSS feed</a>
+| <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/commits/master/{{page.path|uri_escape}}">Post history</a>
+| <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/new?body=Source%20File%3A%20{{page.path|uri_escape}}%0A%0A">Report issue</a></div>
+
+<div class="post">
+  <header class="post-header">
+    <h1 class="post-title">{{ page.title }}</h1>
+  </header>
+
+  <article class="post-content">
+    {{ content }}
+  </article>
+
+  <p class="post-meta">Posted to the <a href="/en/blog">Bitcoin.org Site
+  Blog</a> on {{ page.date | date: "%d %B %Y" }} {% if page.author %} by {{ page.author }}{% endif %}{% if page.meta %} {{ page.meta }}{% endif %}</p>
+
+</div>
--- a/_less/screen.less
+++ b/_less/screen.less
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 	height: 18px;
 }

+div.post {
+        max-width: 40em;
+        margin-right: auto;
+        margin-left: auto;
+}
+.post img {
+        max-width: 100%;
+}
+.post-meta {
+        margin-top: 20px;
+        font-style: italic;
+}
+.post-title {
+        padding-top: 20px;
+}
+
 .highlight  { background: #ffffff; }
 .highlight .c { color: #999988; font-style: italic } /* Comment */
 .highlight .err { color: #a61717; background-color: #e3d2d2 } /* Error */
--- a/_posts/2015-03-05-quarterly-report-decjanfeb2015.md
+++ b/_posts/2015-03-05-quarterly-report-decjanfeb2015.md
@ -0,0 +1,464 @@
+---
+# This file is licensed under the MIT License (MIT) available on
+# http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
+
+type: posts
+layout: post
+category: blog
+
+title: "Quarterly Report March 2015"
+permalink: /en/posts/quarterly-report-march-2015.html
+date: 2015-03-05
+author: >
+  David A. Harding (<a href="mailto:dave@dtrt.org">email</a>, <a
+  href="https://github.com/harding">GitHub</a>,
+  <a href="http://www.reddit.com/user/harda/">Reddit</a>)
+---
+
+*Thanks to [our
+volunteers](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/graphs/contributors?from=2014-12-01&to=2015-02-28&type=c)
+and the financial sponsorship of [The Bitcoin
+Foundation](https://bitcoinfoundation.org/), we've made the
+following accomplishments this quarter.*
+
+Summary for December 2014, January 2015, and February 2015.
+
+* **Quarterly page views:** [over 7 million.](https://bitcoin.org/stats/)
+
+* **Translations:** Bitcoin.org now has fully proofread and complete
+  translations for 26 languages. New and significantly-improved
+  translations added this quarter include Bulgarian, Greek, Polish,
+  and Turkish.
+
+* **Developer documentation:** added 114 new or completely rewritten
+  printed pages worth of text describing Bitcoin Core's RPC interface
+  and 8 more pages describing its new HTTP REST interface. Bitcoin Core
+  0.10.0's new headers-first sync is now documented as is the older
+  blocks-first sync. Begun in the previous quarter, this quarter also
+  saw the completion of over 30 printed pages worth of text describing
+  the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network.
+
+* **Contributors:** long-time site maintainer Saïvann Carignan, who has
+  made [over 1,000
+  commits](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/commits/master?author=saivann)
+  during the past two years, has announced he no longer has time to lead
+  the project. A search is on for new volunteers who are willing to
+  contribute to one of most trusted Bitcoin resources on the Internet.
+
+* **Wallets:** reviewed and added three new wallets to the Choose Your
+  Wallet page, and all previously-listed wallets now support HTTP Strict
+  Transport Security (HSTS) for secure parts of their sites.
+
+* **User guides:** A new guide has been published to the site providing
+  detailed instructions for supporting the network by running the
+  Bitcoin Core full node. The announcement of the page received over
+  [200 upvotes on
+  Reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2wvdko/new_page_on_bitcoinorg_running_a_full_node/).
+
+## Translations
+
+> "Muchas gracias por atender esto inmediatamente, ¡y por el trabajo
+> realizado!" (Many thanks for doing this immediately, and for all the
+> work done!) --Adamantike on Transifex.com
+
+![Bitcoin.org available in 26 languages](/img/blog/free/translations.png)
+
+Non-US/UK visitors accounted for 35% percent of Bitcoin.org's traffic
+this quarter, about 2.5 million page views. Future translation work will
+likely depend on how the English portion of the site is changed in the
+coming months.
+
+* **Newly proofread:** Bulgarian, Polish, and Turkish translations
+
+* **FAQ translated:** the longest localized page on the site, the
+  [FAQ](http://btcorg.localhost/en/faq) has now been translated into
+  Polish and Turkish.
+
+* **Newly added:** a Greek translation
+
+* **Updated:** this quarter saw updates small and large for the
+  translations to Bulgarian, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese
+  (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian,
+  Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese,
+  Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
+
+We are extremely grateful for all the translations contributed by
+volunteers and paid translators on our [Transifex project
+page](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoinorg/) as well as the
+many reviews made by Saïvann Carignan.
+
+
+
+
+## Developer documentation
+
+> "Nice work!" ---Jonas Schnelli about the new HTTP REST documentation
+> ([source](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/720#issuecomment-71515413))
+
+![Illustration from new headers-first documentation](/img/blog/free/en-headers-first-moving-window.png)
+
+The three main developer documentation webpages received a total
+of about 90,000 page views this quarter. Accomplishments this
+quarter include:
+
+* **RPC rewrite:** added [114 new or completely
+  rewritten](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/693) printed
+  pages worth of text describing Bitcoin Core's RPC interface and [8
+  more pages](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/720)
+  describing its new HTTP REST interface.
+
+* **What's headers first?** Bitcoin Core 0.10.0's new
+  headers-first sync [is now
+  documented](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/736) as is
+  [the older blocks-first
+  sync](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/685).
+
+* **P2P protocol:** begun in the previous quarter, this quarter also saw
+  the [completion](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/657) of
+  over 30 printed pages worth of text [describing the Bitcoin
+  peer-to-peer network](https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-reference#p2p-network).
+
+* **Ease contribution:** nearly every subheading [now
+  includes](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/682) links that
+  allow instant submission of corrections or reporting of issues related
+  to the text.
+
+* **Documentation is not a specification:** relaying comments frequently
+  made by Bitcoin Core developers, we now make clear that the
+  [documentation is not a
+  specification](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/679)
+
+* **Bitcoin Core 0.10.0:** many small changes were made to update the
+  documentation to accurately describe Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 behavior.
+
+Most documentation was written by David A. Harding, with reviews
+conducted by Saïvann Carignan, Jonas Schnelli, and others.
+
+## Regular Updates
+
+> "Great!"
+> "Thanks."
+> "Thank you!"
+> ---Users after we helped promote their Bitcoin events (sources:
+> [1](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/702),
+> [2](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/741),
+> [3](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/741))
+
+![Excerpt from the Events page map](/img/blog/free/events.png)
+
+The English [homepage](https://bitcoin.org/en/) and [Getting
+Started](https://bitcoin.org/en/getting-started) page by themselves
+received over 2.0 million visits this quarter. These and other regular
+content pages are often updated based on suggestions by first-time
+contributors, with the bulk of updates going to the [Events
+page](https://bitcoin.org/en/events) and the [Resources
+page](https://bitcoin.org/en/resources) (and its many translations).
+
+* **Update events:** listed 20 new events in addition to the events
+  automatically listed by the site software.
+
+* **Update links:** updated redirected or broken links, as well as removed
+  or redirected links that point to resources our contributors no longer
+  think are useful.
+
+* **Localize links:** pointed links to relevant local resources for some
+  languages.
+
+* **Add non-profit link directory:** added the excellent non-profit link
+  directory compiled by GiveBTC.org.
+
+* **Mention innovative technology:** added the Lighthouse P2P crowdfunding
+  platform to the list of innovative Bitcoin technology.
+
+We are grateful to all of the contributors who opened issues and made
+pull requests to keep the site content current and useful.
+
+## Wallets
+
+> "Thank you! Good catch!" ---GreenAddress on GitHub after we discovered
+> a bug in the new GreenBits wallet
+> ([source](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/725#issuecomment-73322654))
+
+![Just some of the wallets currently listed](/img/blog/free/wallets.png)
+
+The [Choose Your Wallet page](https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet)
+is one of our most visited pages---just the English version of the page
+alone has received over 400,000 visitors this quarter.  However,
+maintaining the page is also one of our most time-consuming activities due
+to the number of wallet authors who want us to include their wallet on
+the page.
+
+* **New wallets:** we reviewed and added three new wallets
+  [Airbitz](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/652),
+  [Circle](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/697), and
+  [Coinapult](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/577).
+
+* **Made HSTS a requirement:** after contacting eight wallet
+  providers and asking them to enable HTTP Strict Transport Security
+  (HSTS) on their sites, all eight eventually agreed to use this
+  simple server setting to help prevent possibly-devastating
+  man-in-the-middle attacks.
+
+* **Removed Blockchain.info:** although a very popular wallet service,
+  Blockchain.info was
+  [delisted](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/663) after a
+  polite online discussion with its CEO. A period of 60 days was chosen,
+  after which they may apply to be relisted.
+
+* **Published wallet requirements:** a set of wallet requirements and
+  guidelines [were
+  discussed](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/670) and
+  published, allowing wallet authors to evaluate for themselves whether
+  their wallet would be a good fit for Bitcoin.org.
+
+Saïvann Carignan spearheaded all the wallet efforts above, although we
+are also grateful to the many people who commented on the wallet issues
+and pull requests.
+
+As Saïvann has become too busy to continue maintenance of the wallet
+section of the site, we are actively [looking for a
+volunteer](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/778) to take
+over reviewing wallets and managing wallet requirements. This is a great
+volunteer position for anyone who likes trying new wallets and who wants
+to interact directly with wallet authors.
+
+
+
+## New Full Node Guide
+
+> "Awesome, thanks for writing this down!" ---Andreas Schildbach on
+> GitHub
+> ([source](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/711#issuecomment-70187037))
+
+![Screenshot included in the full node guide](/img/blog/free/bitcoin-core.png)
+
+Fulfilling a [request made by Wladimir J. van der
+Laan](http://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg05406.html),
+Bitcoin Core's lead developer, we were proud to write and publish a
+[guide to running a full node](https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node) this
+quarter.  The goal is to encourage users to run full nodes when possible
+to support the Bitcoin network.
+
+As of February 28th, the full node guide has been published for only
+five days and has received over 4,000 page views.
+
+* **Target multiple OSes:** initial instructions are provided for Ubuntu
+  Desktop and Ubuntu Server, other Linux distributions (desktop or
+  server), and Windows 7 (desktop only). New volunteers have [begun the
+  process](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/763) of
+  contributing Windows 8.1 instructions, and we are still looking for a
+  Mac user to contribute OS X instructions.
+
+* **Describe opening port 8333:** thanks to the core developers, running
+  Bitcoin Core is easy. The hard part for some users is opening port
+  8333, so we [provide detailed
+  instructions](https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#network-configuration)
+  for just that aspect.
+
+* **Detail risks:** feedback from a core developer encouraged us to make
+  it clear that running a full node isn't always easy, so users who read
+  our guide won't become demoralized and give up on running a full node
+  forever the first time they encounter a problem.
+
+* **Over 200 upvotes:** soon after release, the guide was submitted to
+  Reddit where it received [over 200
+  upvotes](http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2wvdko/new_page_on_bitcoinorg_running_a_full_node/)
+  and a rare "98% upvoted" quality score.
+
+The guide was primarily written by David A. Harding, with reviews by
+Saïvann Carignan and Jameson Lopp, and promotion also by Jameson.
+
+## Website Improvements
+
+> "Confirmed it works. Thanks a lot!" --Wladimir J. van der Laan on
+> GitHub about the updated Download page
+> ([source](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/664#issuecomment-74473907))
+
+Sometimes small tweaks to the site can have a large impact. Some of the
+changes made this quarter include:
+
+![New torrent and magnet links](/img/blog/free/torrent.png)
+
+* **Bitcoin Core 0.10.0:** it is our privilege to help the
+  core developers release new versions of Bitcoin Core by
+  [updating](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/664) the
+  [Download page](https://bitcoin.org/en/download) and the [hosted
+  release notes.](https://bitcoin.org/en/version-history) For the
+  0.10.0 release, we added a [torrent
+  file](https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.0/bitcoin-0.10.0.torrent)
+  and [magnet
+  link](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:170c61fe09dafecfbb97cb4dccd32173383f4e68&dn=0.10.0&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&ws=https%3A%2F%2Fbitcoin.org%2Fbin%2F)
+  to help ensure availability of the files even if Bitcoin.org
+  goes down.
+
+    The new torrent has been downloaded over 900 times and there are at
+    least 44 active seeders as of February 28th.
+
+* **Image optimization:** 83 SVG images were
+  [optimized,](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/774) saving
+  over 250 KB of disk space and a significant amount of bandwidth, as
+  well as helping users on slow connections read the site more quickly.
+
+* **Release ordering:** as the core developers plan to backport the
+  BIP66 changes to older versions of Bitcoin Core, we've made sure the
+  release notes on the site are ordered by version number rather than
+  date so that we always recommend the highest version of Bitcoin Core
+  to new users.
+
+Saïvann Carignan wrote the code to enable the torrent and magnet links
+as well as sorting releases by version number. J. Louis optimized the
+SVG images.
+
+## Server And Development Tools
+
+> "I don't know what people are complaining about... I think it's pretty
+> great actually!" ---/u/itsgremlin on Reddit about Bitcoin.org in
+> general
+> ([source](http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2oessw/bitcoinorg_what_would_you_want_here/cmmg9r7))
+
+![Travis CI verifying the site builds correctly](/img/blog/free/travis.png)
+
+With 7 million page views per quarter, Bitcoin.org serves an average of
+54 pages a minute---so even a single second of downtime might prevent us
+from helping a Bitcoin user. This quarter we took additional steps to
+ensure that the site works correctly while also attempting to make it
+easier for new volunteers to contribute to keeping the site accurate and
+updated.
+
+* **Continuous integration:** each new pull request improving the site
+  is now [automatically built using Travis
+  CI](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/771), allowing
+  contributors to quickly discover bugs in their code even if they don't
+  compile the site themselves.
+
+* **Troubleshooting:**
+  [investigated](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/712) slow
+  bandwidth issues with downloads.
+
+* **Preventive maintenance:** mitigated DDoS attacks and made sure stats
+  are not affected by attacks. Also set Content-Security-Policy policies
+  against XSS attacks.
+
+* **Guide volunteers:** [added a
+  list](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/742) of [suggestions
+  for new
+  contributors](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org#how-to-participate)
+  so they can dive in immediately.
+
+* **Audits:** wrote an automated script that will send an alert when
+  sensitive parts of the site are changed or when Bitcoin Core downloads
+  are missing correct signatures.
+
+Travis CI support was added by David A. Harding with advice and support
+from Cory Fields, Wladimir J. van der Laan, and Pieter Wuille.
+Troubleshooting was performed by Saïvann Carignan with the help of
+GitHub user @patrikr, Christopher Gurnee, and David. Preventative
+maintenance and audit code were contributions by Saïvann, and the
+volunteer quick start guide was contributed by David.
+
+## Public Website Statistics
+
+> "38,135,685 page views [since January 2014]" ---[The stats
+> page](https://bitcoin.org/stats/)
+
+![stats December 2014](/img/blog/free/stats-2014-12.png)
+![stats January 2015(/img/blog/free/stats-2015-01.png)
+![stats February 2015](/img/blog/free/stats-2015-02.png)
+
+## Expense Report
+
+> "This is awesome and sorely needed. [...] Appreciate everything you do
+> for the community, keep up the great work!" ---/u/wserd on Reddit
+> about the new Full Node page ([source](http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2wvdko/new_page_on_bitcoinorg_running_a_full_node/cough5b))
+
+
+![Expense graph](/img/blog/free/expenses.png)
+
+| Previous balance         | 4.994 784 06 BTC
+|--------------------------|-------------------
+| Foundation's sponsorship | 20.779 976 01 BTC
+| Website maintenance      | -5.786 595 31 BTC
+| Translations 	           | -4.735 938 00 BTC
+| Server hosting 	   | -4.552 368 00 BTC
+| Developer documentation  | -2.614 684 15 BTC
+| **New balance**          | &nbsp;8.085 174 61  BTC
+
+## Next Quarter's Goals
+
+> "I'm running a full node (~20 connections) with Bitcoin Core Version
+> v0.10.0rc1 (64-Bit) on Windows 8.1 and willing to help out!"\
+> ---Volunteer on GitHub for the Full Node page
+> ([source](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/763))
+
+In addition to Bitcoin.org's recurring goals, such as funding the
+servers (currently about $600 USD per month), we hope to accomplish the
+following three major goals during the next quarter:
+
+1. **New wallet maintainer:** we're [seeking a
+   volunteer](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/778) to
+   review new wallets for inclusion on the Choose Your Wallet page, as
+   well as to monitor existing wallets for problems and to propose new
+   criteria that allow us to only recommend the very best wallets.
+
+2. **New developer documentation:** the developer documentation is
+   currently 250 printed pages long, and on May 24th it will celebrate
+   its [one-year
+   anniversary](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/393#issuecomment-44089996)
+   on Bitcoin.org. In the upcoming quarter we plan to add about 50 more
+   printed pages worth of content, including:
+
+    * A [glossary/vocabulary
+      page](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bitcoin-documentation/s_mL1syxYoQ)
+      providing definitions for the over 150 specialized terms and
+      synonyms used in Bitcoin development
+
+    * Documentation for at least the most common op codes, and possibly
+      all the enabled op codes. This section will be essentially a more
+      detailed version of the [Bitcoin Wiki script
+      page](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script)
+
+    * [Improved type
+      information](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/753) in
+      the RPC and REST sections, as
+      [requested](http://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07069.html)
+      by Ocaml-Bitcoin developer Dario Teixeira.
+
+    * Substantially revising and expanding the [current wallet
+      section](https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#wallets), likely
+      leading to a new section focused on ECDSA keys and signatures.
+
+    * Continuing to expand the [overview of the Bitcoin P2P
+      protocol](https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#p2p-network).
+
+3. **Better volunteer resources:** we want to make it easier for
+   community members to volunteer to contribute to Bitcoin.org in ways
+   both small and large. New documentation about site procedures is
+   forthcoming and we will be looking for other ways to encourage and
+   simplify first-time contributions.
+
+## Thanks To Sponsors And Volunteers
+
+> "Thank you for your sponsorship and your support of our work!"
+> ---Saïvann Carignan
+
+> "The Foundation provides us a modest monthly grant so we can pay for
+> servers and some other stuff, and we put their logo on the bottom of
+> the page and write a quarterly report telling them what we've
+> accomplished thanks to their sponsorship. Beyond that, they let us
+> make our own decisions, for which independence we're quite grateful."
+> ---David A. Harding on Reddit
+> ([source](http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2wvdko/new_page_on_bitcoinorg_running_a_full_node/couu1cv))
+
+We thank [The Bitcoin Foundation](https://bitcoinfoundation.org/) for
+their continued financial support of the site, and extend our heartfelt
+appreciation to the [15
+people](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/graphs/contributors?from=2014-12-01&to=2015-02-28&type=c)
+who contributed commits this quarter and the much larger number of
+people who provided valuable feedback in over 439 comments on pull
+requests and issues.
+
+---
+
+*If you have any questions about the content of this report, please
+[open an issue](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/new) on
+GitHub or email Dave Harding, <dave@dtrt.org>.*
--- a/_posts/2015-04-01-report-april-2015.md
+++ b/_posts/2015-04-01-report-april-2015.md
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+---
+# This file is licensed under the MIT License (MIT) available on
+# http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
+
+type: posts
+layout: post
+category: blog
+
+title: "Site Updates In March 2015"
+permalink: /en/posts/site-updates-april-2015.html
+date: 2015-04-01
+author: >
+  David A. Harding (<a href="mailto:dave@dtrt.org">email</a>, <a
+  href="https://github.com/harding">GitHub</a>,
+  <a href="http://www.reddit.com/user/harda/">Reddit</a>)
+---
+
+*Thanks to [our
+volunteers](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/graphs/contributors?from=2015-03-01&to=2015-03-31&type=c)
+and the financial sponsorship of [The Bitcoin
+Foundation](https://bitcoinfoundation.org/), we made the following
+accomplishments this month.*
+
+* **No more broken links:** all internal links on Bitcoin.org's 834 pages
+  are now automatically checked by [HTML Proofer][] through our [Travis
+  Continuous Integration (CI)][] infrastructure. We plan to enable HTML
+  Proofer's HTML validation subroutine in the future to provide even
+  better quality assurance. Thanks to HTML Proofer author [Garen
+  Torikian][] for writing such a great tool!
+
+* **Coinapult wallet** was briefly removed from the Bitcoin.org [Choose Your
+  Wallet][] page after they suffered a security breach. After restoring
+  full services to their customers and assuring us that customer
+  deposits are safe, we re-added them.
+
+* **KnC wallet** has been removed from the Choose Your Wallet page after
+  multiple issues, including an abandoned website, no new commits to
+  [their codebase][] in several months, and reports that their iOS app
+  no longer worked. (In positive news, we have received reports that it
+  is still possible to recover funds from the wallet seed.)
+
+* **Translations** were updated thanks to translation volunteers on
+  [Transifex][].
+
+* **Seven new events** were added. Please check the [Events page][] to see
+  whether there are any interesting Bitcoin meetups or conferences in
+  your area.
+
+* **New pages & features:** a [developer documentation][] glossary
+  section and Javascript-based search engine were [proposed][] but not
+  quite finished by the end of the month.
+
+## Site Traffic
+
+According to or [website statistics][], 4.3 million people visited the
+website in March.  However, as seen in the illustration below, there was
+a suspicious spike in visits that look like a possible attempt at
+[referer spam][] (even though we don't publish referer information).
+Almost all of the suspicious traffic was directed at the Spanish, Dutch,
+and French Bitcoin.org home pages, leaving statistics for the rest of
+the site fairly accurate.
+
+We suspect the accurate number of unique visitors in March was around
+2.0 million, roughly the same as in February.
+
+![March traffic statistics graph](/img/blog/free/stats-2015-03.png)
+
+Notable traffic patterns this month included:
+
+* The [Full Node Guide][] first released last month received over 8,000
+  page views, a surprisingly high number for a new technical document.
+  Hopefully this is a sign that users really want to run full nodes for
+  themselves.
+
+* The [Choose Your Wallet page][] continues to receive over 130,000 page
+  views a month, as it keeps on trying to help novice users choose
+  their first Bitcoin wallet.
+
+* The [Bitcoin Core Download page][] has just as many page views as it
+  did last month (75,000) when Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 was released.  If you
+  haven't upgraded yet to get new features like [headers-first block
+  sync][] and [lower vulnerability to OpenSSL code changes][], take some
+  time to read the [0.10.0 release notes][] to see what you're missing.
+
+## Thank You Volunteers!
+
+Special thanks to the 19 volunteers who contributed and commented
+through [GitHub][] this month: anthonyc0603, arvicco, barmstrong,
+Bitcoinference, borisstankovic, ConsumersResearch, dajohi, dquintela,
+Firescar96, FrancisPouliot, gurnec, harding, larshesel, LinusU, louisjc,
+luke-jr, muresanroland, pstratem, and saivann.
+
+[HTML proofer]: https://github.com/gjtorikian/html-proofer
+[Travis continuous integration (CI)]: https://travis-ci.org/bitcoin/bitcoin.org
+[Garen Torikian]: https://github.com/gjtorikian
+[Choose Your Wallet]: /en/choose-your-wallet
+[Transifex]: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoinorg/
+[Events page]: /en/events
+[developer documentation]: /en/developer-documentation
+[proposed]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/793
+[GitHub]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org#how-to-participate
+[their codebase]: https://github.com/kncgroup/bitcoin-wallet
+[full node guide]: /en/full-node
+[CHoose your wallet page]: /en/choose-your-wallet
+[Bitcoin core download page]: /en/download
+[headers-first block sync]: /en/developer-guide#headers-first
+[lower vulnerability to OpenSSL code changes]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0066.mediawiki
+[0.10.0 release notes]: /en/release/v0.10.0
+[website statistics]: https://bitcoin.org/stats/2015-03.html
+[referer spam]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer_spam
--- a/_posts/2015-04-14-new-glossary.md
+++ b/_posts/2015-04-14-new-glossary.md
@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+---
+# This file is licensed under the MIT License (MIT) available on
+# http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
+
+type: posts
+layout: post
+category: blog
+
+title: "Dev Docs: New Glossary & Search Feature"
+permalink: /en/posts/developer-docs-glossary-and-search.html
+date: 2015-04-14
+author: >
+  David A. Harding (<a href="mailto:dave@dtrt.org">email</a>, <a
+  href="https://github.com/harding">GitHub</a>,
+  <a href="http://www.reddit.com/user/harda/">Reddit</a>)
+---
+
+*Thanks to [several volunteers][] and the financial sponsorship of [The
+Bitcoin Foundation][], we've added two major new features to the
+[Bitcoin.org Developer Documentation][].*
+
+A new [glossary section][] has been added to the Bitcoin.org Developer
+Documentation, and with it comes a fully-Javascript search engine that
+helps you look up glossary entries, Bitcoin Core RPCs, Bitcoin BIPs,
+Script-language op codes, and Bitcoin P2P protocol messages.
+
+## Developer glossary main page
+
+![Developer glossary main page](/img/blog/free/devglossary-main-page.png)
+
+The glossary main page provides a search box and a sorted list of terms.
+It uses a floating list so that it looks good on both mobiles and
+desktop/laptop screens.
+
+A link is provided at the bottom of the page to allow readers to
+recommend new glossary terms. (It works like the Submit New Event link
+on the [Events page][].)
+
+### Glossary entries
+
+![Glossary entries](/img/blog/free/devglossary-entries.png)
+
+Each glossary entry has its own page providing a short definition
+(limited to 255 characters), one or more synonyms, zero or more "not to
+be confused with" terms, and zero or more links to resources on and off
+Bitcoin.org. Separate pages were used to allow search engines to link
+directly to the most relevant entry, rather than forcing users to scroll
+through a giant page of definitions.
+
+The glossary currently has:
+
+* 89 glossary entry pages
+* 51 additional synonyms
+* 222 links (all internal to Bitcoin.org or to Bitcoin Wiki, BitcoinTalk, or Bitcoin StackExchange)
+
+Each page includes links to edit it, view its history, or report an
+issue about it.
+
+### Dev search box
+
+![Glossary search box](/img/blog/free/devglossary-search-box.png)
+
+A Javascript-powered search box is added to the following pages: [Dev
+Guide][], [Dev Reference][], [Dev Examples][], [Dev Glossary][], and individual
+glossary entry pages.
+
+The box allows finding the following by keyword, listed in the order
+they appear in the search:
+
+* Glossary entries (Bitcoin.org)
+* RPCs  (Bitcoin.org)
+* Op codes (Bitcoin Wiki)
+* BIPs (just notable and non-withdrawn BIPs; GitHub.com BIPs repo)
+* Bitcoin P2P protocol messages (Bitcoin.org)
+
+The search uses [JQuery][] and [JQuery UI][], both MIT-licensed. Both are
+loaded from the Bitcoin.org server so there's no stats leakage when
+people load them.
+
+[dev guide]: /en/developer-guide
+[dev reference]: /en/developer-reference
+[dev examples]: /en/developer-examples
+[dev glossary]: /en/developer-glossary
+[jquery]: https://jquery.com/
+[jquery ui]: https://jqueryui.com/
+[several volunteers]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/793
+[Bitcoin.org developer documentation]: /en/developer-documentation
+[the bitcoin foundation]: https://bitcoinfoundation.org/
+[glossary section]: /en/developer-glossary
+[events page]: /en/events
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+++ b/en/blog.html
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+---
+# This file is licensed under the MIT License (MIT) available on
+# http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
+
+layout: base
+lang: en
+title: Bitcoin.org Site Blog - Bitcoin
+id: site-blog
+---
+
+<div class="home">
+
+  <h1 class="page-heading">Bitcoin.org Site Blog</h1>
+
+  <p class="summary">Discover what's new on Bitcoin.org or <a href="/en/rss/blog.xml">subscribe to the RSS feed</a></p>
+
+  <ul class="post-list">
+    {% for post in site.posts %}
+      <li>
+        <a class="post-link" href="{{ post.url | remove: '.html' }}">{{ post.title }}</a>
+        -
+        <span class="post-meta">{{ post.date | date: "%b %-d, %Y" }}</span>
+      </li>
+    {% endfor %}
+  </ul>
+
+</div>
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+++ b/en/rss/blog.xml
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+---
+# This file is licensed under the MIT License (MIT) available on
+# http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
+
+layout: null
+---
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+  <channel>
+    <title>Bitcoin.org Site Blog</title>
+    <description>News about Bitcoin.org</description>
+    <link>{{ site.url }}{{ site.baseurl }}/</link>
+    <atom:link href="{{ "/en/rss/blog.xml" | prepend: site.baseurl | prepend: site.url }}" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
+    <pubDate>{{ site.time | date_to_rfc822 }}</pubDate>
+    <lastBuildDate>{{ site.time | date_to_rfc822 }}</lastBuildDate>
+    <generator>Jekyll v{{ jekyll.version }}</generator>
+    {% for post in site.posts limit:5 %}
+      <item>
+        <title>{{ post.title | xml_escape }}</title>
+        <description>{{ post.content | xml_escape }}</description>
+        <pubDate>{{ post.date | date_to_rfc822 }}</pubDate>
+        <link>{{ post.url | remove: '.html' | prepend: site.baseurl | prepend: site.url }}</link>
+        <guid isPermaLink="true">{{ post.url | remove: '.html' | prepend: site.baseurl | prepend: site.url }}</guid>
+        {% for tag in post.tags %}
+        <category>{{ tag | xml_escape }}</category>
+        {% endfor %}
+        {% for cat in post.categories %}
+        <category>{{ cat | xml_escape }}</category>
+        {% endfor %}
+      </item>
+    {% endfor %}
+  </channel>
+</rss>
--- a/img/blog/free/COPYING
+++ b/img/blog/free/COPYING
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+The files in this folder are licensed under the MIT License (MIT) available on
+http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
--- a/img/blog/free/bitcoin-core.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/bitcoin-core.png
--- a/img/blog/free/devglossary-entries.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/devglossary-entries.png
--- a/img/blog/free/devglossary-main-page.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/devglossary-main-page.png
--- a/img/blog/free/devglossary-search-box.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/devglossary-search-box.png
--- a/img/blog/free/en-headers-first-moving-window.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/en-headers-first-moving-window.png
--- a/img/blog/free/events.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/events.png
--- a/img/blog/free/expenses.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/expenses.png
--- a/img/blog/free/stats-2014-12.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/stats-2014-12.png
--- a/img/blog/free/stats-2015-01.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/stats-2015-01.png
--- a/img/blog/free/stats-2015-02.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/stats-2015-02.png
--- a/img/blog/free/stats-2015-03.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/stats-2015-03.png
--- a/img/blog/free/torrent.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/torrent.png
--- a/img/blog/free/translations.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/translations.png
--- a/img/blog/free/travis.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/travis.png
--- a/img/blog/free/wallets.png
+++ b/img/blog/free/wallets.png