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+Hi,
+
+I'd like to nominate myself to serve as the Kolla PTL for the Train cycle.
+
+I've been a user and developer of Kolla and Kolla Ansible since 2016 -
+initially while at Cray, but my upstream contribution really started in earnest
+when I joined StackHPC two years ago. I became core in May last year.
+I am passionate about this particularly operator-driven and community-led
+project, and started the Kayobe [1] project that allows deployment of an
+OpenStack control plane to bare metal using Kolla, Kolla Ansible and
+Bifrost.
+
+The flip side of being an operator-driven project is that contributors come and
+go, and even regular contributors don't always have as much time as they might
+like. That said, the project is very much alive in terms of code and review
+contributions. I'd like to help those on the periphery of the project to get
+more involved. Kolla is also a very global project, with many contributors in
+Asia particularly. This is really healthy, and I'd like to try out a more
+APAC-friendly IRC meeting time and a virtual PTG to keep everyone involved.
+
+I'm lucky enough to also be an Ironic core (I don't intend for that to change
+if elected Kolla PTL), and it's been interesting to compare how these two quite
+different projects operate. The Ironic team does a great job of planning and
+tracking their work, making use of a whiteboard [2].  I'd like to try adopting
+a lightweight version of some of these practices in Kolla.
+
+As the project matures, stability becomes increasingly important. This is
+particularly true for the images, which are used by multiple projects. We've
+been working on improving our CI testing this cycle, but still have a way to
+go. I want to make sure that work continues, to ensure we can continue to make
+changes with confidence, whatever the hype cycle throws at us.
+
+Thanks for reading,
+Mark Goddard (mgoddard)
+
+[1] https://kayobe.readthedocs.io
+[2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/IronicWhiteBoard