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+Hi All,
+
+I'd like to announce my candidacy for the Technical Committee.
+
+For those of you who do not know me, I've been involved with OpenStack
+from the very early days of the project.  I've attended many OpenStack
+summits and Project Teams Gatherings over the years and have been
+privileged to help the project grow from its small beginnings to
+the established cloud platform that it has now become.
+
+I was the main driver behind migration of the OpenStack Charms to its
+current home as an official OpenStack project which I then led for many
+cycles as PTL and I remain an active core developer on this project.
+
+I'm the current PTL of Sunbeam which was accepted into OpenStack last
+year as a new incubating project, providing a reboot of the charmed
+approach to deploying OpenStack utilising the many new projects that
+have appeared since we started the OpenStack Charms project back in
+2011.
+
+I also work as part of the team responsible for the packaging and
+distribution of OpenStack as part of Ubuntu.
+
+I have been a member of the TC for the last year providing a voice
+from a deployment tooling and distribution perspective. I would like
+the opportunity to continue in this role providing what I believe
+is a valuable perspective to the technical governance of the OpenStack
+project.  In particular I think we need to address some of the
+challenges around the general health of wider ecosystem dependencies
+of OpenStack to ensure that we move forward onto a stable base
+benefiting operators, distributors and developers.
+
+Thank you for taking the time to consider my candidacy for this role.
+
+Regards
+
+James Page (irc:jamespage)