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+Hello OpenStack community,
+
+I would like to announce my candidacy for PTL of Designate for the Bobcat
+cycle.
+
+I would like to continue to support the Designate team for the Bobcat
+release. For the Antelope release, we have continued our code stability work
+and focused development on a major new feature "Shared Zones". Looking forward
+to the Bobcat development cycle I expect to see a lot of work around updating
+for SQLAlchemy 2.x and introducing the "catalog zones" feature.
+
+Thank you for your support and your consideration for Bobcat,
+
+Michael Johnson (johnsom)
+