Implement weekly run for fetching sponsors and contributors

[darbyjack]

This pull request introduces a new automated workflow for updating sponsor and contributor data, centralizes data fetching, and refactors how this data is retrieved and typed in the codebase. The main improvements are the addition of a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow to update data, the creation of a script to fetch and store sponsor/contributor information, and updates to the frontend code to consume this data from static JSON files rather than directly from APIs.

Automated Data Update Workflow

• Added a new GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/update-data.yml) that runs weekly or manually to update sponsor and contributor data. It checks out the data branch, runs a data generation script, and commits any changes.

Data Generation Script

• Introduced a new script (scripts/update-data.ts) that fetches sponsors from OpenCollective and GitHub Sponsors, as well as contributors from the PaperMC repository, and writes this data to JSON files for use by the website.
• Added a data:update script to package.json to run the data update script manually.

Frontend Data Fetching Refactor

• Updated the contributors utility (src/utils/github.ts) to fetch contributor data from the static JSON file in the data branch, instead of paginating through the GitHub API at runtime.
• Updated the sponsors utility (src/utils/sponsors.ts) to fetch sponsor data from the static JSON file, and refactored types to use type aliases instead of interface for consistency with the new data source. [1] [2]

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