It's time for the Community App Catalog to go through an official election cycle, and I'm putting my name in for PTL. I've been filling that role provisionally since before the App Catalog was launched at the Vancouver summit, and I would like to continue service as PTL officially. Now that we've joined the Big Tent[1], having a committed leader is more important than ever :) . I believe the App Catalog has tremendous potential for helping the end-users of OpenStack clouds find and share things they can deploy on those clouds. To that end, I've been working with folks on extending the types of assets that can live in the catalog and also trying to make finding and consuming those assets easier. Since we announced the Community App Catalog I've done everything I could to deliver on the "community" part. With the help of the OpenStack Infra team, we moved the site to OpenStack infrastructure as quickly as possible. All planning and coordination efforts have happened on IRC (#openstack-app-catalog), the dev and operators mailing list, and during the weekly IRC meetings[2]. I've also been working to get more people engaged and involved with the Community App Catalog project while attempting to raise the profile and exposure whenever possible. Speaking of community, I know being part of the OpenStack community at a broad level is one of the most important things for a PTL. On that front I'm active and always available on IRC (docaedo), and do my best to stay on top of all the traffic on the dev mailing list. I also work with Richard Raseley to organize the OpenStack meetup in Portland in order to reach, educate (and entertain) people who want to learn more about OpenStack. The next big thing we will do for the Community App Catalog is to build out the backend so it becomes a more engaging experience for the users, as well as makes it easier for other projects to contribute and consume the assets. In addition to the Horizon plugin[3][4] (check it out with devstack, it's pretty cool!) we are thinking through the API side of this and will eventually contribute the code to search, fetch and push from the OpenStack Client. All of this is to say that I'm eager and proud to serve as the Community App Catalog PTL for the next six months if you'll have me! [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/217957/ [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/app-catalog [3] https://github.com/stackforge/apps-catalog-ui [4] https://github.com/openstack/app-catalog-ui