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+My fellow OpenStack community,
+
+I would like to nominate myself for Octavia PTL for Stein. I am currently
+the PTL for the Rocky release series and would like to continue helping our
+team provide network load balancing services for OpenStack.
+
+In the Rocky release, we were able to add support for provider drivers,
+improve the user experience when using Barbican, listener timeouts, dashboard
+auto refresh, and creating members designated as "backup" members.
+
+Looking forward to Stein I expect the team to finish out some major new
+features, such as Active/Active load balancers and flavors.
+
+Thank you for your support of Octavia during Rocky and your consideration for
+Stein,
+
+Michael Johnson (johnsom)