Add blog post announcing the new OpenPrinting website

Add a news post that covers the new static Next.js architecture, credits all
contributors to the rebuild (with their GitHub avatars), and invites users to
test the site and report bugs.

- contents/post/OpenPrinting-News-The-New-OpenPrinting-Website.md: the post,
  with a teaser/hero image, a "What's new at a glance" quick-links section, the
  architecture overview, contributor credits, and a call to test and report.
- data/authors.ts: add the author profile used by the post.
- public/authors/rudra-singh.jpg: author photo.

Author: rudra-iitm

contents/post/OpenPrinting-News-The-New-OpenPrinting-Website.md

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+---
+title: "OpenPrinting News - The New OpenPrinting Website"
+layout: single
+toc: true
+toc_sticky: true
+author: Rudra
+excerpt: "We rebuilt the OpenPrinting website from the ground up — a fast, fully static Next.js site. Here is how it works, who built it, and how you can help by testing it."
+date: '2026-06-07'
+teaser_image: /rotation_pantone.jpg
+---
+
+<img src="/rotation_pantone.jpg" alt="The new OpenPrinting website" style="width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px;border:1px solid rgba(127,127,127,0.2)" />
+
+We are excited to share that the OpenPrinting website has been **rebuilt from the ground up**. The old Jekyll site has been replaced by a modern, fully static site that is faster, easier to contribute to, and now hosts the printer/driver database lookup directly on the site.
+
+This post explains the new architecture, credits the people who built it, and invites you to try it out and report anything that looks off.
+
+## What's new at a glance
+
+- **Printer & driver database, on-site** — browse [printers](/foomatic/printers) and [drivers](/foomatic/drivers) directly here.
+- **Site-wide search** — press the search button in the header to search posts, docs, projects, printers and drivers.
+- **Sponsors & supporters** — see who supports OpenPrinting on the [Sponsors](/sponsors) page.
+- **Opportunity Open Source** — our annual FOSS conference in India now has a [home page](/opportunity-open-source).
+- **Light / dark / system theme**, a responsive design, comments on posts, and an [RSS feed](/feed.xml).
+
+## A new architecture
+
+The guiding idea was simple: **everything is generated at build time, and the deployed site is 100% static** — no application server, no database, and no runtime backend. That makes it cheap to host on GitHub Pages, fast for visitors, and robust.
+
+The main pieces:
+
+- **Next.js (App Router) with static export.** The whole site is pre-rendered to static HTML/JS and served from GitHub Pages. There is nothing to run on the server.
+- **Content as Markdown.** All pages, news posts, project descriptions and documentation live as Markdown files in the repository. Contributors only have to learn one single format to add or edit content — no templating or code required.
+- **A reusable author system.** Posts reference an author, and the matching profile (avatar, role, and social links such as Mastodon and LinkedIn) is rendered automatically.
+- **The Foomatic printer/driver database, on-site.** The printer and driver lookup is generated at build time from the upstream `foomatic-db` data: the XML is converted to JSON, and a page is statically generated for every printer and every driver. Browse printers at **/foomatic/printers** and drivers at **/foomatic/drivers**, with the original `/printer/show/...` and `/driver/...` URLs preserved via redirects so old links keep working.
+- **Client-side search.** A search index is built at compile time and shipped as a static file, so the search box works entirely in the browser across posts, documentation, projects, pages, printers and drivers — again, no server needed.
+- **Comments via Giscus.** Discussion on posts is powered by GitHub Discussions, so there is no third-party comment service to maintain.
+- **Theming and design.** A light/dark/system theme toggle and a clean, responsive design built with Tailwind CSS.
+- **RSS, sitemap and SEO.** A build-time RSS feed, a generated sitemap covering all pages (including every printer and driver), canonical URLs and Open Graph metadata.
+- **Continuous deployment.** Every change is built and published to GitHub Pages automatically.
+
+The result is a site that is reproducible (the same input always produces the same output), easy to extend, and pleasant to contribute to.
+
+## Thanks to the contributors
+
+This rebuild was a team effort by the OpenPrinting contributor community. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen:
+
+<p>
+  <img src="https://github.com/gativarshney.png?size=120" alt="Gati Varshney" width="56" height="56" style="border-radius:9999px;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;margin:0 0.6rem 0 0" />
+  <strong>Gati Varshney (<a href="https://github.com/gativarshney">@gativarshney</a>)</strong> — the reusable author component, migrating all of the existing posts from the old Jekyll site into the new setup, the homepage, the build-time client-side search system, automatic redirects for renamed posts, publication dates on articles, author avatars on the news boxes, the light-theme hero banner, and the Google Season of Docs page.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  <img src="https://github.com/sam-shubham.png?size=120" alt="@sam-shubham" width="56" height="56" style="border-radius:9999px;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;margin:0 0.6rem 0 0" />
+  <strong><a href="https://github.com/sam-shubham">@sam-shubham</a></strong> — the Google Summer of Code experience (year and project pages), teaser-image support for posts and pages, the production base-path fix for images, and the title-escaping fix for post metadata and the search index.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  <img src="https://github.com/harshvns.png?size=120" alt="@harshvns" width="56" height="56" style="border-radius:9999px;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;margin:0 0.6rem 0 0" />
+  <strong><a href="https://github.com/harshvns">@harshvns</a></strong> — extending the search index to cover documentation, projects and pages.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  <img src="https://github.com/ishpreet404.png?size=120" alt="@ishpreet404" width="56" height="56" style="border-radius:9999px;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;margin:0 0.6rem 0 0" />
+  <strong><a href="https://github.com/ishpreet404">@ishpreet404</a></strong> — fixing missing routes, assets and data inconsistencies, and improving blog navigation.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  <img src="https://github.com/rudra-iitm.png?size=120" alt="Rudra Pratap Singh" width="56" height="56" style="border-radius:9999px;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;margin:0 0.6rem 0 0" />
+  <strong>Rudra Pratap Singh (<a href="https://github.com/rudra-iitm">@rudra-iitm</a>)</strong> — as the <strong>core mentor</strong> of this website rebuild, I guided and coordinated the contributors throughout the project. I also worked on the overall UI revamp, the light/dark/system theme toggle, replacing the old comment system with Giscus, the portable static-deployment configuration, hard-refresh internal navigation, the on-site Foomatic printer/driver lookup migration, the sponsors/supporters section, and the Opportunity Open Source page.
+</p>
+
+Additional improvements — including the smart 404 page with trailing-slash handling for GitHub Pages and the RSS 2.0 feed — were contributed along the way as well.
+
+If you contributed and are not mentioned here, please reach out — we want to make sure everyone gets credit.
+
+## Please help us test it
+
+The new site is live, and we would love your help making it rock-solid.
+
+**You are very welcome to explore the site and report any bugs you find.** Things that are especially useful to check:
+
+- Broken links, missing pages, or content that does not look right
+- Printer and driver pages in the database lookup
+- Search results
+- Light and dark mode, and the layout on mobile devices
+
+If you spot a problem, please open an issue on our GitHub repository at [OpenPrinting/openprinting.github.io](https://github.com/OpenPrinting/openprinting.github.io/issues) with a short description and, if possible, the page URL and a screenshot. Bug reports, suggestions and contributions are all very welcome.
+
+Thank you for helping make printing — and now the OpenPrinting website — just work!

data/authors.ts

@@ -91,6 +91,18 @@ const authors: Author[] = [
     ],
     image: "/authors/cnihelton.jpg",
   },
+  {
+    key: "Rudra",
+    name: "Rudra Pratap Singh",
+    role: "OpenPrinting Contributor",
+    github: "https://github.com/rudra-iitm",
+    image: "/authors/rudra-singh.jpg",
+    email: "mailto:rudransh.iitm@gmail.com",
+    location: "Varanasi, India",
+    links: [
+      { label: "LinkedIn", href: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudra-iitm/", kind: "linkedin" },
+    ],
+  },
 ];
 
 export default authors;