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+% Andrew Robbins joins Libreboot management team
+% Leah Rowe
+% 4 Jun 2017
+
+On 25 April, only 40 days ago, Libreboot adopted new collective and democratic
+management policies, with a flat-hierarchy leadership of 4 people. All patches
+go under code review now, and major project decisions are voted on by core
+members, with community input. The policy is [here](../management.md), and
+formalizes de-facto standards that were already followed prior to its
+publication.
+
+**Today, we gain our first new official project member under this new policy.**
+
+Andrew Robbins, IRC nick **and\_who** and notabug user
+**[kragle](https://notabug.org/kragle)** has joined the Libreboot project as a
+full-time maintainer.
+
+This means: merge rights on the Git repository (for reviewing and merging
+contributions by the public), operator status on #libreboot IRC and voting
+rights on all major project decisions.
+
+Andrew has been working on major improvements to the build system, some of
+which are already merged and are critical for the next Libreboot release.
+Andrew has been influential in several major policy decisions already.
+
+Andrew has a deep understanding of and passion for Libreboot as a whole, and
+is a perfect fit for the Libreboot project. Thus, with agreement from other
+members of core management, Andrew is now an official Libreboot team member.
+
+We very much look forward to seeing what he will do for the project! Everyone
+please welcome Andrew into the Libreboot project!
+
+The new list of people on the core management team is as follows:
+
+- Alyssa Rosenzweig
+- Andrew Robbins
+- Leah Rowe
+- Paul Kocialkowski
+- Swift Geek