Merge pull request #64 from ESMValGroup/add_news_items

Add 3 news items (Dec 2024)

_posts/2024-08-28-Software-award.md

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+layout: post
+title: Helmholtz Incubator Software Award
+date: 2024-08-28
+---
+
+## ESMValtool development team receives Helmholtz Incubator Software Award 2023!
+
+The ESMValTool development team was awarded the Helmholtz Incubator Software Award 2023
+in the category sustainability.
+
+The Helmholtz Incubator Software Award is a joint
+initiative of [Helmholtz Federated IT Services](https://www.hifis.net/) (HIFIS), the [Helmholtz Information & Data
+Science Academy](https://www.helmholtz-hida.de/en/) (HIDA), the [Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering -
+Preparatory Study](https://www.helmholtz-hirse.de/) (HiRSE_PS), and the [Helmholtz Open Science Office](https://os.helmholtz.de/en/).
+The prize in the categroy sustainability is given for software that is sustainable in
+the sense of software engineering according to the FAIR principles and for an extensive
+support and participation through the scientific community. It is awarded with 3000€.
+
+For more details, see [https://helmholtz.software/news/2024-08-28/awardees-of-the-first-helmholtz-software-award](https://helmholtz.software/news/2024-08-28/awardees-of-the-first-helmholtz-software-award).

_posts/2024-11-19-Workshop.md

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+layout: post
+title: ESMValTool workshop
+date: 2024-11-19
+---
+
+The second ESMValTool community workshop 2024 took place on 19-21 November 2024 (online meeting).
+
+The agenda can be found [here](https://github.com/ESMValGroup/Community/discussions/192).

_posts/2024-11-25-New-ESMValCore-release.md

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+layout: post
+title: ESMValCore v2.11.1
+date: 2024-11-25
+---
+
+## ESMValCore v2.11.1 released!
+
+A new version of ESMValCore (v2.11.1) has been released:
+[https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/releases/tag/v2.11.1](https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/releases/tag/v2.11.1)
+
+### Highlights:
+
+This is a bugfix release which enables lazy computations in more preprocessors and allows installing the latest version of various dependencies, including Iris ([v3.11.0](https://github.com/SciTools/iris/releases/tag/v3.11.0)).
+
+Happy model evaluation with ESMValTool!