Add blog post announcing two new maintainers

blog/2024-11-06-new-maintainers.md

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+---
+title: "Welcoming two new Rust GPU maintainers"
+authors: [schell, firestar99]
+tags: ["announcement", "leadership"]
+---
+
+# Welcoming two new Rust GPU maintainers
+
+We’re thrilled to introduce two new maintainers for the
+[Rust GPU](https://github.com/Rust-GPU/rust-gpu) project: **[Schell
+Scivally](https://github.com/schell/)** and **[Firestar99](https://github.com/Firestar99)**.
+
+Both bring experience in graphics programming, a deep understanding of Rust, and a
+passion for advancing GPU computing.
+
+<!-- truncate -->
+
+Here’s a bit more about each of them in their own words:
+
+## Meet Schell Scivally
+
+> I'm Schell Scivally, a game and graphics programmer living on the South Island of New
+> Zealand 🇳🇿🌴 with my partner and our two kids.
+>
+> By day, I work at [Narrative.so](https://narrative.so), where I use AI to streamline
+> photographers' culling and editing. Before moving here, I was a Haskell programmer in
+> the Bay Area of California.
+>
+> I’m also an [NLNet grantee](https://nlnet.nl/) working on Renderling, a cross-platform
+> GPU-driven renderer that runs on WebGPU. You can check it out at
+> [renderling.xyz](https://renderling.xyz).
+>
+> I use rust-gpu to debug shaders on the CPU while keeping all the benefits of Rust’s
+> development experience. It lets me shift a lot of work from the CPU to the GPU without
+> having to change or duplicate types! I’d love to see rust-gpu grow, get more
+> contributors, and become the foundation for a thriving shader ecosystem on crates.io.
+
+## Meet Firestar99
+
+> I go as Firestar99 online and am a graphics programmer and master's student from
+> Germany 🇩🇪.
+>
+> Currently, I'm in the process of finishing off my master’s degree with a thesis about
+> replicating UE5's Nanite in a custom engine written in rust. For those unfamiliar,
+> Nanite is a new approach to generate and render models with levels of details (LOD),
+> being the first to allow a single instance of a mesh to transition smoothly from
+> higher to lower levels of detail as it gets further away from the camera, without any
+> visible holes or seams in the model. In the context of rust, you may have heard of
+> [bevy implementing it as
+> well](https://jms55.github.io/posts/2024-06-09-virtual-geometry-bevy-0-14/).
+>
+> And of course I'm using rust-gpu for my shaders! By far the most important feature to
+> me is the ability to share datastructures across GPU and CPU code, which allows me to
+> preprocess my models in a seconds long offline bake directly into the GPU
+> representation, enabling me to load even the most complex models like
+> [bistro](https://developer.nvidia.com/orca/amazon-lumberyard-bistro) in half a second.
+>
+> On the way there I've made various additions to rust-gpu like [Mesh
+> shaders](https://github.com/Rust-GPU/rust-gpu/pull/44), [subgroup
+> intrinsics](https://github.com/Rust-GPU/rust-gpu/pull/14) and [reworking
+> `ByteAddressableBuffer`](https://github.com/Rust-GPU/rust-gpu/pull/17) as well as
+> rebasing a lot of existing PRs. In the future, I hope to be able to contribute my
+> bindless API specifically designed for rust-gpu and find a job in the industry,
+> hopefully associated with the project.
+
+<br/>
+
+Please join us in welcoming them to the team! Thanks to our new maintainers, Rust GPU
+now has four official maintainers.
+
+We’re eager to add more users and contributors to Rust GPU and will be working on
+revamping the onboarding and documentation soon. **To follow along or get involved,
+check out the `rust-gpu` repo on [GitHub](https://github.com/rust-gpu/rust-gpu).**

blog/tags.yml

@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ announcement:
   permalink: /announcements
   description: Announcements
 
+leadership:
+  label: leadership
+  permalink: /leadership
+  description: Leadership
+
 demo:
   label: demo
   permalink: /demos