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+Hello,
+
+I am hereby announcing my candidancy as OpenStack Chef PTL for the
+Bobcat release cycle.
+
+Over the past year we have made a lot of progress on cleaning up and
+improving OpenStack Chef both in testing and functionality.
+
+My goals for the coming release cycle:
+
+- Get cookbooks updated to support the remaining releases
+- Start migrating cookbooks to be more resource driven similar to Sous
+  Chefs cookbooks and move away from using attributes (where possible).
+
+Thanks-
+
+Lance Albertson (ramereth)