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+title: "New PMC member: Martin Grigorov"
+linkTitle: "New PMC member: Martin Grigorov"
+date: 2022-09-13
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+The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Avro is pleased to announce that Martin Grigorov has accepted our invitation to become a PMC member.  He has has been active, reliable and responsive to the community and a solid contributor to various SDKs, bringing well-thought out reviews and comments to both old and new PRs and JIRA.  He definitely stepped up for the website refactoring and preparing for the 1.11.1 release!
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+Please join me in welcoming Martin to the Avro PMC!