GB Nomination: Volker Simonis

[Chris Phillips]

Oops, premature vote in Friday am mental fog..
please ignore for now.

Chris

On 3/6/20 10:46 AM, "Chris Phillips"@T O wrote:
> Vote: yes
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> Cheers!
> ChrisPhi
> 8-)
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> On 06/03/20 01:43 AM, Langer, Christoph wrote:
>> Hi again,
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>> I'd like to nominate another candidate for At-Large membership in the 
>> OpenJDK Governing Board: Volker Simonis.
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>> Volker works on JVMs/JDKs since more than 15 years and joined the 
>> OpenJDK project right from its start. He's a Reviewer since jdk8, 
>> leads the 'ppc-aix-port' and 's390x-port' porting projects and is a 
>> member of the 'hotspot', 'build', 'porters', 'vulnerability' and 
>> 'members' group. He was the driving force behind SAP's engagement in 
>> the OpenJDK project, initiated the SapMachine project, represented SAP 
>> in the JCP Executive Committee and served in the Java SE 9-13 Expert 
>> Groups.
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>> He is a well-known and respected speaker at major Java conferences and 
>> has always been vocal in articulating the needs of the OpenJDK 
>> community with regards to openness, better infrastructure and tooling. 
>> With his experience to work on both, commercial (SAP JVM) as well as 
>> open source versions of the OpenJDK (SapMachine, Amazon Corretto), I 
>> think he is an ideal fit for the OpenJDK Governing Board.
>>
>> Thanks and Best Regards
>> Christoph
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