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+Mark Asselstine Candidate for StarlingX Distro Technical Lead role
+Affiliation: Wind River Systems
+
+I have been committed to the transition away from CentOS as the
+provisional PL for the StarlingX Distro working group and would like
+to continue to see this transition through. The comming months and
+year will see lots of excitement as we approach the first release
+based on Debian and I hope to play a continued role in this work.
+
+Thanks,
+Mark
+