Hello. I would like to announce my candidacy for Searchlight PTL for Train. [4] I have been involved in OpenStack since the Queens cycle as it is needed for my research. Over the last three cycles, I learned a lot in both technical and organizational aspects. That is thank to the help of many community members, TCs, PTLs of the OpenStack projects that I am working on. That inspired me to take the role of Searchlight PTL to help survive the project. I could say I can commit my time for that responsibility with my current job. As many of you may know, at the end of the Rocky cycle, the TC intended to remove Searchlight from the Governance (OpenStack official projects). The reasons for that are because Searchlight has missed several milestones and lacked communication of the PTL. I couldn't stand the fact that a pretty cool project like Searchlight would be abandoned so I volunteered to be the PTL of Searchlight for the Stein cycle. I hoped that I could do something to revive it. With the help of some contributors, we finally could find a "light" for the project. In the first two milestones of Stein, Searchlight has identified itself as a useful tool in several use cases such as being a cloud resource lookup, a cloud resource repository, and a multi-cloud search solution [1]. We hope those use cases will attract more contributors and vendors to support and use Searchlight in the near future. Moreover, the team has developed a grand vision for Searchlight [2] to help sustain the project in alignment with the OpenStack Cloud Vision [3]. The very first thing to make that vision come true is building a strong foundation for Searchlight. I take that responsibility personally and passionately. Like many other OpenStack projects, there are always challenges in contributor participation. For that, I especially see the new contributor engagement is an important job of the PTL and always looking for opportunities to do that (e.g., conferences, meetup, training, etc.). That will not be changed whether you'll have me as the Searchlight PTL for Train or not. I will continue working on helping potential developers to come to Searchlight and build a strong community around it. I know that I knew nothing about Searchlight before Stein. I'm not trying to change things with big ideas here. I just want to help Searchlight succeed in Train and further if I can. Thank you for your consideration. Trinh Nguyen (dangtrinhnt) [1] https://docs.openstack.org/searchlight/latest/user/usecases.html [2] https://docs.openstack.org/searchlight/latest/contributor/searchlight-vision... [3] https://docs.openstack.org/searchlight/latest/contributor/vision-reflection.... [4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/641193/ -- *Trinh Nguyen* *www.edlab.xyz <https://www.edlab.xyz>*