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+Hello!
+
+I would like to announce my candidacy for the Winstackers PTL election for the
+upcoming cycle.
+
+I have been involved in OpenStack for several years, mostly working on
+different projects which also involves Windows, Hyper-V, and related
+technologies.
+
+As you might know, over the past several years, we were able to work on
+different projects, developing drivers, agents, plugins necessary to integrate
+Windows and Hyper-V into the OpenStack environment. Most of them are using
+the os-win library. Some of these are:
+
+- Cinder Windows iSCSI and SMB drivers
+- Neutron OVS Agent on Windows
+- Ceilometer Polling Agent on Windows
+- Manila Windows SMB Driver
+- Designate Microsoft DNS Server backend support
+- Kolla ansible role for Hyper-V
+- involvements in other tangential projects like os-vif and os-brick
+
+Most of the efforts go towards ensuring and maintaining the functionality of
+those drivers. One goal for the near future will be to transition our CIs to
+using python3, since python2 is approaching its end of life.
+
+Recently, our focus was on the following items:
+
+- Glance Windows support, which we need for a usecase, allowing images to be
+  stored on S2D backed HA shares.
+- ovsdb monitor support.
+- adding log rotation options in our installers.
+- general bug fixing and improvements, including python 3.6 related issues on
+  Windows.
+- CI maintenance.
+
+As for the future, we plan on finishing any previously unfinished items, plus
+a few othe items:
+
+- Upstreaming some features which are currently only on compute-hyperv,
+  including: Shielded VMs, Nova assisted volume snapshots.
+- documentation updates. We have some all-purpose general documentation
+  regarding how to set up and configure the nodes, but it doesn't fit the
+  OpenStack style documentation, so it has to be adapted.
+
+New items will be added to the list when the need arises. New goals and
+suggestions are always welcome.
+
+Thank you for your consideration,
+
+Claudiu Belu
+