Steering council membership update

Steering council membership update

From the Governance documentation:

The Zarr Steering Council (ZSC) members are core developers who have additional responsibilities to ensure the smooth running of the project. ZSC members are expected to participate in strategic planning, approve changes to the governance model, and make decisions about funding granted to the project itself… The purpose of the ZSC is to ensure smooth progress from the big-picture perspective. Changes that impact the full project require analysis informed by long experience with both the project and the larger ecosystem. When the core developer community (including the ZSC members) fails to reach such a consensus in a reasonable timeframe, the ZSC is the entity that resolves the issue.

On October 14th, Ryan Williams, a founding member of the ZSC, stepped back. In the name of the community, the other members would like to thank Ryan for his support and leadership over the past four years and wish him the best in his new pursuits!

In his place, Norman Rzepka will join the council. Norman has been a key driver of the Zarr v3 specification, the zarrita prototype, a zarr-java implementation, and more recently the rewrite of zarr-python for v3.

Please join us in welcoming him! 👏🏽

~ Josh Moore for the ZSC