GB Nomination: Gil Tene

[Gil Tene]

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.