GB Nomination: Gil Tene

[Gil Tene]

> On Mar 11, 2022, at 12:45 PM, Mike Duigou <openjdk at duigou.org> wrote:
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> I am pleased to once again nominate Gil Tene to an At-Large Member position on the OpenJDK Governing Board.
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> Gil is very well known to both the OpenJDK and Java communities. He has been active with Java for over 25 years and has been building JDKs for 20 of those years. I have known Gil professionally for more than 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 two decades, I continue to strongly 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. For me, the consistency and dedication to this effort is my primary reason to support his candidacy. It has also been why I've previously chosen the Zulu Embedded and Zulu Community JVMs as an Azul customer.
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> 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 is a respected voice in the Java community and a great ambassador for the value of Java to the broader software and open source communities.
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> 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 and I encourage you to support his candidacy.

Thank you for the nomination, and for the kind words! I accept.

My candidate statement will be posted shortly.

— Gil.