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This pull request adds nine new academic maintainer spotlight articles, each profiling a different open source project and its maintainer (or team).

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* Add Alive2 / Nuno Lopes maintainer spotlight

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* Revise Nuno Lopes maintainer spotlight details

Updated maintainer spotlight for Nuno Lopes with additional badge and corrected project title.

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* Add Trixi.jl maintainer spotlight for Hendrik Ranocha

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* Update maintainer spotlight for Hendrik Ranocha

Added 'Professor' badge to Hendrik Ranocha's profile.

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* Add storyteller maintainer spotlight for Mark Mahoney

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* Update maintainer spotlight for Mark Mahoney

Added 'Professor' badge to Mark Mahoney's profile.

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Updated the link format for the example video in the storyteller maintainer spotlight.
* feat: add SCTA Texts maintainer spotlight for Jeffrey C. Witt

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* Complete SCTA spotlight: fix <quote> bullet and add remaining survey sections

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* Update scta-texts-maintainer-spotlight.md

* Add 'Professor' badge to maintainer spotlight

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* content: add gym-pybullet-drones maintainer spotlight by Jacopo Panerati

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* Update badges in maintainer spotlight

Added 'Research Software Engineer' badge to the maintainer profile.

* content: rewrite gym-pybullet-drones spotlight with verbatim interview answers

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* Update badges in maintainer spotlight

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…okyo) (#8)

* Add scikit-robot maintainer spotlight for Iori Yanokura

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* Update maintainer profile for Iori Yanokura

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Pull request overview

Adds a first batch of “Maintainers in Academia” spotlight articles (markdown pages with frontmatter metadata + Q&A content) profiling academic open source maintainers and their projects.

Changes:

  • Added new spotlight markdown posts under content/academia/ with standardized frontmatter (maintainer/project metadata) and interview content.
  • Included several AI-related Q&A sections in applicable spotlights.
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content/academia/trixi-jl-maintainer-spotlight.md New maintainer spotlight article for Trixi.jl
content/academia/storyteller-maintainer-spotlight.md New maintainer spotlight article for Storyteller
content/academia/scta-texts-maintainer-spotlight.md New maintainer spotlight article for SCTA Texts
content/academia/scikit-robot-maintainer-spotlight.md New maintainer spotlight article for scikit-robot
content/academia/librosa-maintainer-spotlight.md New maintainer spotlight article for librosa
content/academia/gym-pybullet-drones-maintainer-spotlight.md New maintainer spotlight article for gym-pybullet-drones
content/academia/gandlf-maintainer-spotlight.md New maintainer spotlight article for GaNDLF
content/academia/alive2-maintainer-spotlight.md New maintainer spotlight article for Alive2

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