feat: Rebuild About page + optimize landing illustrations and add dev tooling (#22)

* feat: rebuild and restore About Us page with dynamic filtering

* feat(about): rebuild About page with real, timeless team data

Replace the placeholder/fabricated team list with data sourced from
RocketPy's actual Git history and canonical docs (README + CITATION.cff):

- Reframe the page as a timeless "story + people" tribute rather than a
  snapshot of current members, organized as Founders -> Maintainers ->
  Contributors so past contributions stay recorded permanently.
- Add an "Our Story" section with a factual milestone timeline
  (2018 first commit -> 2020 first release -> 2021 paper -> 2023 v1.0).
- Founders & Origins from the founding paper and README (Giovani Ceotto,
  Rodrigo Schmitt, Guilherme Fernandes, Lucas Pezente, advisor Bruno Carmo).
- Hall of Contributors: 70 real contributors consolidated from the full
  commit history, with GitHub avatars/links and an initials fallback.
- New glassmorphic styles for hero stats, story timeline, featured tiers
  and the contributor gallery, matching the existing design language.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmdN9qXxFzFcXdwaeC4K9o

* feat(about): add honored members and Core Team / Community sections

Recognize people who did outstanding work on RocketPy regardless of their
commit count, and reorganize the featured tiers to fit the real team:

- Split the featured area into "Core Team" (technical squad leads and
  maintainers) and "Community & Outreach" (people who carried RocketPy to
  competitions, classrooms and communities).
- Add Gabriel Barberini (creator of the Infinity API), Lucas de Oliveira
  Prates (library), Aasit Vora (front-end lead), Lucas Gonçalves (RocketPy
  Europe / EuRoC lead), Breno Rocha (outreach, generation zero) and Samuel
  Nascimento (social media & brand), with bios from the team's own account
  of their contributions.
- Support optional LinkedIn links on featured cards (shown alongside GitHub).
- Add teal (core) and blue (community) tier accents in the stylesheet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmdN9qXxFzFcXdwaeC4K9o

* feat(about): add more honored members and a global reach section

- Add Rafael Kneip, Bruno Sorban, Luiz Mota, Julio Machado and Laura do
  Prado to the featured tiers, and enrich Mateus Stano's and Pedro Bressan's
  bios (generation zero / joined 2022) plus their LinkedIn links.
- Add an "A Global Project" section highlighting the universities and
  institutions represented in RocketPy's contributor base (USP, IST Lisbon,
  UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Colorado School of Mines, IMT Atlantique,
  University of the Basque Country, NTHU and Victoria University of
  Wellington), sourced from the e-mail domains in the public commit history.
- Members without a verifiable GitHub handle are linked via LinkedIn only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmdN9qXxFzFcXdwaeC4K9o

* feat(about): consolidate to Founders/Core Team/Contributors, add Adriano & Patrick

- Simplify the featured area to two tiers, Founders and Core Team, folding the
  former Community & Outreach members into the Core Team (their role labels
  still convey front-end, outreach, competitions, brand, etc.).
- Add Adriano Antongiovanni (general management lead, generation zero) and
  Patrick Sampaio (first EuRoC 2022, creator of RocketSerializer).
- Link Aasit Vora's GitHub (aasitvora99) alongside his LinkedIn.
- Broaden the Core Team description and drop the now-unused community tier
  styles.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LmdN9qXxFzFcXdwaeC4K9o

* feat(landing): swap raster illustrations for SVGs and add dev tooling

Consolidates the outstanding landing-page work onto the About rebuild
branch so a single PR carries both:

- Replace the five raster section illustrations (PNG + WebP <picture>
  blocks) with four scalable, accessible SVGs (hero-trajectory,
  environment-atmosphere, monte-carlo-dispersion, community-network),
  each with a viewBox and descriptive aria-label. Removes ~350 KB of
  binary image assets.
- Update css/main.css graphic sizing/classes for the new SVGs, with
  clamped spacing and tighter mobile/tablet max-widths.
- Fix footer social-icon sizing in css/footer.css (round 38px icons).
- Add a cross-platform local dev server: scripts/devserver.py plus a
  Makefile (start/stop/restart/status/build/serve-dist/format) and a
  .gitignore entry for the .devserver.pid file.
- Refresh .github/copilot-instructions.md: point at the new SVG assets
  and document the make-based local preview workflow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: Gui-FernandesBR

.github/copilot-instructions.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This is a **static marketing website** for RocketPy (rocketpy.org) - an open-sou
 
 ### Image Assets
 - Background images are referenced in CSS using optimized assets (e.g., `url("../images/hero-background.png")`)
-- Section illustrations use descriptive filenames (e.g., `hero-logo-illustration.png`, `community-visual.png`)
+- Section illustrations are scalable SVGs with descriptive filenames (e.g., `hero-trajectory.svg`, `community-network.svg`)
 - Favicon and logo files are in `images/` directory
 
 ## Development Workflow
@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ npm run format  # Runs Prettier on all HTML, CSS, JS files
 ```
 Only dev dependency is Prettier (v3.3.3). Always format before committing.
 
+### Local Preview
+```bash
+make start    # serve the source files at http://127.0.0.1:8000 (override with PORT=)
+make status   # check whether the dev server is running
+make stop     # stop the dev server
+make build    # build the minified site into dist/
+```
+The `make` targets wrap `scripts/devserver.py`, a cross-platform (Windows/macOS/Linux) manager for a detached `python -m http.server`. Run `make help` to list all targets.
+
 ### Deployment
 - **Automatic deployment** via GitHub Actions (`.github/workflows/static.yml`)
 - Triggers on push to `master` branch

.gitignore

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ node_modules/
 # Build output
 dist/
 
+# Local dev server
+.devserver.pid
+
 # OS files
 .DS_Store
 Thumbs.db

Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# RocketPy site - local dev helpers.
+# Run `make help` to list the available targets.
+
+PORT ?= 8000
+HOST ?= 127.0.0.1
+export PORT HOST
+
+.PHONY: help start stop restart status build serve-dist format
+
+help:
+	@echo Targets:
+	@echo   make start       - start the local dev server on the source files
+	@echo   make stop        - stop the dev server
+	@echo   make restart     - restart the dev server
+	@echo   make status      - show whether the server is running
+	@echo   make build       - build the minified site into dist/
+	@echo   make serve-dist  - build then preview the production dist/ output
+	@echo   make format      - run prettier on html/css/js
+	@echo Override the port with e.g. make start PORT=3000
+
+start:
+	@python scripts/devserver.py start
+
+stop:
+	@python scripts/devserver.py stop
+
+restart:
+	@python scripts/devserver.py restart
+
+status:
+	@python scripts/devserver.py status
+
+build:
+	@npm run build
+
+serve-dist: build
+	@python scripts/devserver.py stop
+	@python -m http.server $(PORT) --directory dist --bind $(HOST)
+
+format:
+	@npm run format