Java Community Process: Executive Committee Special Election Nominees for 2017

Chips based on ARM technology are used to run Java on all computing form factors, from small embedded devices running Java ME, to infrastructure and servers running Java EE. ARM is very active in Java based software efforts both for the Internet of Things, as well as in support of Java on ARM-based gateways and servers.

I am passionate about empowering people through technology, enabling them to garner and communicate relevant knowledge -- knowledge that relates to the time and place where they are and to the people around them. I've been part of the mobile computing revolution for 25 years, 20 of them at ARM. I work directly with many of the major open software technologies and companies, helping create new and exciting ways to compute and communicate while on the go, and thus give a voice to the inhabitants of the global village.

For over 15 years, JetBrains has strived to make the strongest, most effective developer tools. Most well-known for IntelliJ IDEA, one of the most popular IDEs for Java and other languages, JetBrains aims to make development a more productive and enjoyable experience.

JetBrains believes involvement in the community is fundamental to helping the Java platform to evolve and has been involved in several Expert Groups, including JSR 305 (Annotations for Software Defect Detection), JSR 334 (Project Coin) and JSR 335 (Lambda Expressions). As a member of the Executive Committee, JetBrains will bring multiple areas of expertise. We are

• an organisation that uses Java extensively, we are developers who use live and breathe the language
• a producer of tools for developers, we understand the challenges of implementing new standards
• active advocates for the Java platform, we help developers to learn about and adopt new standards
• the creators of Kotlin, a JVM language that's fully interoperable with Java, we see the benefits of the JVM as a platform and understand its impact is wider than just Java-the-language

Trisha Gee is a Java Champion and the IntelliJ IDEA Developer Advocate for JetBrains, a role which is perfect for her passion of evangelising Java after nearly 20 years of developing enterprise applications with it. Her goal is to help developers to "level up" as the language evolves. She has written and presented on Java 8, helping developers to understand how to use the new features and how to refactor to utilise the latest idioms, and is now focussed on teaching Java 9.

Trisha was previously involved in the JCP Executive Committee via the London Java Community, and helped to create the Adopt a JSR and Adopt OpenJDK initiatives.