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+Hi everyone,
+
+I would like to propose my candidacy for Octavia PTL during the Xena cycle.
+
+I have been an Octavia contributor for 2 years, and a core reviewer for 2
+releases. Since then, I have been working in many areas in Octavia: adding
+support for new protocols (SCTP), fixing CI jobs, improving the
+octavia-dashboard.
+
+My focus will be to continue the work that the team has accomplished these last
+years, particularly adding many new features in Octavia (active/active load
+balancers, leveraging features provided by HAProxy 2.0) and improving our CI
+coverage (restoring CentOS jobs).
+
+Thanks for your consideration,
+
+Gregory