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#info We are happy to announce a new Steering Committee member!
Markus Bergholz ([markuman](https://github.com/markuman)) has been a very active community member for several years.
He has contributed to the Ansible project as a developer, reviewer, collection maintainer, and a person who helps other contributors and users on IRC/Matrix and GitHub.
We are happy to get him on board!
Our congratulations, Markus, and thank you for your great long-term contribution!

We have also updated the Steering Committee policies and procedures. To learn more, see the following documents:
- [Ansible Community Steering Committee](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/ansible_community_steering_committee.rst)
- [Ansible Community Steering Committee Membership Guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/steering_committee_membership_guidelines.rst)