docs: attribution

[akshayka]

This PR adds attribution for Bennet and David's roles, via the DOE, in supporting marimo.

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Pull request overview

Adds a funding/acknowledgements attribution to both the GitHub-facing README and the documentation landing page, crediting Bennet Meyers and David Chassin and noting partial support from the U.S. DOE CMEI/IESO under Agreement 34368.

Changes:

• Add an acknowledgement paragraph to README.md.
• Mirror the same acknowledgement paragraph in docs/index.md to keep the docs landing page consistent.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
README.md	Adds acknowledgement + DOE support attribution to the project overview/inspiration section.
docs/index.md	Mirrors the same acknowledgement + DOE support attribution on the docs homepage.

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Architecture diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant README as README.md
    participant Index as docs/index.md
    participant DOE as U.S. DOE (CMEI/IESO)
    participant Bennet as Bennet Meyers
    participant David as David Chassin
    participant Marimo as Marimo Project

    Note over README,Marimo: Current-state documentation structure with new attribution

    README->>Marimo: Contains project description and acknowledgments
    Index->>Marimo: Contains project description and acknowledgments

    Marimo->>Bennet: Acknowledges belief in marimo from the beginning
    Marimo->>David: Acknowledges belief in marimo from the beginning

    Marimo->>DOE: Work supported by U.S. DOE Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) Integrated Energy Systems Office (IESO), Agreement 34368

    Bennet-->>Marimo: Supported via DOE funding
    David-->>Marimo: Supported via DOE funding
    
    Note over README,Index: Both files now include identical attribution text

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[bmeyers]

Thanks guys, and congrats on all the ongoing success!

[github-actions]

README Translation Update Needed

This PR includes changes to the main README.md. The following translation files may need to be updated:

• Traditional_Chinese (README_Traditional_Chinese.md): @thliang01
• Chinese (README_Chinese.md): @metaboulie
• Japanese (README_Japanese.md): @kiwamizamurai
• Spanish (README_Spanish.md): @Francisco-G-P

Translation maintainers, please review the changes in this PR and update your respective README translations accordingly.

CC: @thliang01 @metaboulie @kiwamizamurai @Francisco-G-P