Sylvain Bauza candidacy for Antelope Nova PTL

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+Hi Nova and Placement folks,
+
+Yet again, I want to help our community for this cycle by working on papers.
+If you accept me for being Antelope Nova/Placement PTL, it would be my last
+cycle for it after already two of them (unless nobody runs for this).
+
+For the moment, we are not yet done with Zed but I'm happy to see that we have
+13 open blueprints that are reviewed and where some of them are from
+contributors that aren't everyday Nova developers.
+That's the reason why I wanted to help those on-off contributors that have not
+a large time for upstream work and that's why we added a Gerrit review label
+value for them (saying "I want to review as a contributor").
+We also tried a new way for discussing about open changes creating a new API
+microversion and even if it hadn't really needed, I think we could use this way
+next time if needed.
+
+So, what would I like for us to discuss during Antelope then ?
+Well, at least three points :
+
+ - given Antelope will be the first 'tick' release, I want to make sure we
+   won't have any issues in Nova or Placement for this cycle, and I also would
+   like to prepare for the 'tock' release.
+
+ - I would like to discuss with our community how to find some opportunities
+   for new contributors that would like to work on Nova.
+
+ - as we discussed with operators in the Berlin Summit, I would like to find a
+   way for them to discuss with us and see how they could be in our community
+   even if they're not developers. At least, I'd love to see some operators in
+   our meetings and in our PTG sessions.
+
+Thanks,
+-Sylvain
+(again, not a leader but just a herder.)