GB Nomination: Gil Tene

[Mike Duigou]

Hi Gil;

I am sorry that your candidacy was unsuccessful this year. I am glad to 
have nominated you and want to thank you for your continued involvement 
in the Java community.

Cheers,

Mike

On 2020-03-11 12:53, Gil Tene wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 18:30:22 UTC Duigou, Mike wrote:
>> 
>> I am pleased to nominate Gil Tene to an At-Large Member position on 
>> the
>> OpenJDK Governing Board.
>> 
>> Gil is well known to both the OpenJDK and Java communities. He has 
>> been
>> active with Java for 25 years and has been building JDKs for 18 of 
>> those
>> years. I have known Gil professionally for approximately 10 years
>> through our mutual involvement in OpenJDK and Java, and I have 
>> followed
>> his and Azul's contributions and involvement in Java and OpenJDK for
>> even longer. With Gil's experience in leading an independent provider 
>> of
>> both free and supported JDK distributions for almost two decades, I
>> believe Gil offers important perspective on advancing the Java 
>> ecosystem
>> and furthering community interests. Gil has a long track record of
>> working to ensure and maintain a level playing field for vendors and
>> ensure that stable, credible and free Java runtimes are available for
>> all.
>> 
>> Gil is an active developer and contributor to multiple open source
>> projects. Gil's technical experience and exposure within the JVM and 
>> JDK
>> is quite broad based. Gil is a Java Champion and a frequent speaker at
>> developer conferences. He has been a community elected member of the 
>> JCP
>> Executive Committee for the past 9 years where his community 
>> involvement
>> and business experience have made him an important voice for
>> representing and forwarding the community interests of Java 
>> developers.
>> His extensive experience in matters both technical and procedural 
>> makes
>> him a valuable asset to the Java and OpenJDK community.
>> 
>> Gil will be an excellent member of the OpenJDK Governing Board.
> 
> Thank you for the nomination, and for the kind words! I accept.
> 
> I will be putting together a candidate statement to be posted at
> https://openjdk.java.net/poll/gb/2020
> <https://openjdk.java.net/poll/gb/2020> in the next day or two.
> 
> — Gil.