Hi everybody,

These are the highlights from this week's meeting:

• Election:
• CEC Election is live: https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elections/b2fa20e6-1a5d-4f49-a747-0f8f45a67bdd/view
• https://pad.ceph.com/p/css-vote-2024q4
• Feedback from the Ceph Ambassadors meeting - October 2024:
• https://pad.ceph.com/p/ceph-ambassadors-meeting
• 17.2.8 
• ongoing discussion with CERN to help make el8 ceph packages available for 17.2.8 
• QE validation runs in dev leads review phase
• Ceph Tentacle Award
• criteria/logistics needs to be discussed 
• Ceph Windows client builds
• cloudbase is reviewing if they will continue this next year
• Ceph Foundation had funded it in 2021/22, no longer funding it
• Shaman also builds, but we don't distribute. (Signing costs $$)
• Usage metrics unknown, the Ceph Foundation has it on agenda for their 2025 budget discussion