[docs] Announce new committers (#2507)

* [docs] Announce new committers * Update doc/content/en/blog/news/new-pmc-michael-a-smith.md Co-authored-by: Michael A. Smith <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Michael A. Smith <[email protected]> (cherry picked from commit a240ceb)
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+---
+title: "New committer: Christophe Le Saec"
+linkTitle: "New committer: Christophe Le Saec"
+date: 2023-08-09
+---
+
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+The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Avro has invited Christophe
+Le Saec to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that
+he has accepted.
+
+Christophe definitely puts in the work and, has an impressive breadth of 
+knowledge about the languages of the Avro SDK!
+
+As an ASF project, we tend to be very conservative about making changes, and
+Christophe brings in fresh ideas and very quickly proposes concrete 
+implementations to prove them.  He has a good understanding of Avro, the
+motivation to move things forward, and the expertise to make changes!  At the
+same time, he's easy to talk to and flexible in coming to a consensus.
+
+Thanks for all your hard work!
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+title: "New committer: Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind"
+linkTitle: "New committer: Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind"
+date: 2023-08-09
+---
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+The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Avro has invited Oscar
+Westra van Holthe - Kind to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that
+he has accepted.
+
+Oscar has done some really solid work on the IDL and JavaCC parts of the Java
+SDK.  We trust his work and think it's exceptionally high quality.  From the 
+start, he has already doing much of the work of a committer, demonstrated by
+his continuous presence in commenting JIRA, reviewing PRs as well as 
+encouraging and insightful words on the mailing list.
+
+As a bonus, in his spare time, Oscar also maintains the IntelliJ plugin for
+[IDL support](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/15728-apache-avro-idl-schema-support)!
+
+Thanks for all your hard work, and welcome!
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+---
+title: "New PMC member: Michael A. Smith"
+linkTitle: "New PMC member: Michael A. Smith"
+date: 2023-08-09
+---
+
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+
+The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Avro has invited Michael A.
+Smith to the PMC and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.
+
+Notably, Michael has taken a leadership role in ensuring the quality of the
+Python SDK, lending his expertise to ensure that Avro has a place in the 
+python community, while keeping our implementation up-to-date with standards
+and modern versions.  It's not an easy task, and we appreciate all he does!