[technology-pmc] Nomination of Eric Rizzo to the Technology PMC

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings esteemed colleagues of the Technology PMC.

I would like to nominate Eric Rizzo to join the ranks of the PMC. You 
will no-doubt recogise Eric's name. He was the winner of the "Top 
Newcomer Evangelist" award at last year's EclipseCon. If you spend any 
time in the newsgroups, you've likely come across his name. He is very 
active in the newcomer, and platform groups. And in many others. He's 
pushed a lot of useful changes into our infrastructure to make things 
easier for users (he successfully lobbied, for example, to have noticed 
added to the downloads page to make the Windows decompression issue known).

Eric is not a committer on an Eclipse project, but he is very 
knowledgeable about Eclipse technology. He leads a team that builds 
Eclipse-based products for Skyway Software. He's well-versed in RCP and 
numerous other Eclipse projects. He has contributed to numerous bugs. 
He's wrestled with PDE Build.

I see Eric as a bit of a yin to our yang. He approaches Eclipse from the 
consumer side. We approach it from the producer side. He can help with 
community development. He's an energetic, smart, commonsense sort of guy 
who I think will add a lot of value.

Please acknowledge your approval of Eric by responding to this message 
with a +1.

Thanks,

Wayne