My utmost respect to you, Markus. Thank you for choosing to step into the Marketing committee room!
Your contributions to the Jakarta EE public forums enabling brainstorming, clarifications with AskMeAnything have brought value and have enabled others' awareness on diverse topics, technical and none technical. Your time, actions, and words mirror how beautiful and valuable you truly are to this ecosystem.
At all times, especially when contributing side by side with people as awesome as you, who belong to diverse open-source ecosystems, I hold the below quote at my core.
“When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, ‘Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again’—my gut reaction is, ‘What a badass.’” --Brene Brown
Let's move forward. I hope many others choose to nominate themselves as you have done. Bringing more transparency and branding conversations to the public forums is everyone's responsibility!!!!
The possibilities on how we collaborate are endless,