🆕🐥 Good first Issue

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👾 Description of the issue

In /pyproject.toml, we list maintainers but this needs to be updated as we have a new maintainer.

maintainers = [
{ name = "Nadine Loepfe", email = "nadine.loepfe@hashgraph.com" }
]

should also include:
name = Sophie Bulloch
email = exploreriii57@gmail.com

💡 Solution

• Add a new maintainer row

Acceptance Criteria:

• Nadine is a maintainer
• Sophie is a maintainer
• Rest the same

Implementation

• Add Sophie as a maintainer

Additional requirements to Pass

• Short but descriptive changelog entry under 'UNRELEASED'
• Verified commits achieved (see CONTRIBUTING.md and signing.md)

Next steps

• Comment below that you’d like to work on this issue.
• Wait to be assigned by a maintainer.
• Read CONTRIBUTING.md
  to start forking and developing.

If you have never contributed to an open source project at GitHub, the following step-by-step guide will introduce you to the workflow.
More information and concrete samples for shell commands for each step can be found in our CONTRIBUTING.md
file.
A more detailed general documentation of the GitHub PR workflow can be found here
.

For Python-specific contributing guidelines, see:

CONTRIBUTING.md

README.md

• Claim this issue: Comment below that you are interested in working on the issue

• Wait for assignment: A community member with the given rights will add you as an assignee

• Work on the issue: Follow the steps above and submit a PR

• You did it 🎉: We’ll review and merge your contribution — thanks for improving Hiero’s Python SDK ❤️

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