GB Nomination: Gil Tene

[Mike Duigou]

I am pleased to again 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 almost 20 
of those years. I have known Gil professionally for over 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 perspectives on advancing the Java 
ecosystem and furthering community interests. He has been a community 
elected member of the JCP Executive Committee where his community 
involvement and business experience made him an important voice for 
representing and forwarding the community interests of Java developers. 
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.

Gil's extensive experience in matters both technical and procedural 
makes him a valuable asset to the Java and OpenJDK community. He will be 
an excellent member of the OpenJDK Governing Board.

Cheers,

Mike