Amplify Quarto release acknowledging Sam Schiano, Sophie Breitbart, asar

[jules32]

Celebrate and think about how to amplify this story: on the website and also in our slides:

Quoted from the Quarto blog:

https://quarto.org/docs/blog/posts/2026-03-24-1.9-release/#acknowledgements

One of the early proposals for PDF accessibility and alt text in the LaTeX ecosystem was provided to us by Sam Schiano and Sophie Breitbart. We want to thank them for bringing into our attention the approach they used in their {asar} R package, which influenced some of our design.

[jules32]

And Carlos' very kind bluesky post: https://bsky.app/profile/cscheid.net/post/3mitrkaqisk2s