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title: "Meet Jekyll's New Lead Developer"
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date: "2018-02-19 20:48:09 -0500"
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author: parkr
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categories: [team]
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Jekyll has a new Lead Developer: [Olivia](https://liv.cat/)!
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After over 5 years of leading Jekyll, many releases from 0.12.1 to 3.6.0, and
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countless conversations in GitHub Issues, Pull Requests, Jekyll Talk, and
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more, I am passing on the torch as Lead Developer of Jekyll.
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Olivia has been working with the Jekyll community for some time now. You
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may have seen her around in issues and pull requests on the various Jekyll
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repositories. She started as a contributor, then joined the Core team as our
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community lead. Olivia joined the Jekyll Core Team with experience in the
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Node.js community, both online and as a volunteer organizer with JSConf EU.
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In my conversations with Olivia, it is clear that Jekyll's vision of
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simplicity for the user ([no magic!](/philosophy#1-no-magic)) and letting
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users' [content be king](/philosophy#3-content-is-king) will remain a top
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priority. In just the last few weeks as the transition has been occurring,
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we have seen some incredible work on performance that will make future
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versions of Jekyll work better at scale. She will be prioritizing work on
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innovative improvements to make Jekyll that much better for all of us.
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Olivia balances an eye for quality with the need for shipping well.
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When Tom Preston-Werner met me at GitHub HQ 2.0 in January 2013 to pass on
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the torch, I could never have dreamed of all the amazing experiences this
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community would share with me over the next 5 years. From visiting @qrush
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in Buffalo, NY for a hack night on Jekyll to attending a Jekyll planning
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session hosted by @benbalter at GitHub to Google Summer of Code which gave
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us jekyll-admin, I am eternally grateful to all of you for the opportunity
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to lead this excellent community. I'm confident Olivia will continue to
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lead Jekyll to even greater heights.
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As always, Happy Jekylling!
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Parker
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*Curious about who else runs this show? [Check out our excellent team.](/team/)*
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