# Announcing the 2022 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election

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The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2022 OpenTelemetry
Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by end-of-day on 7
October 2022, with the ratification happening by 8 October 2022 and a list of
eligible candidates will be shared on 9 October 2022. Voting will take place
between 18 October 2022 and 20 October 2022, and the final election results will
be announced 22 October 2022.

## Vote!

If you are a
[member of standing](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/614ece1538e6697842bc25d436d8d70ab6175808/governance-charter.md?from_branch=main#members-of-standing)
in the OpenTelemetry community, we invite you to participate in this election to
ensure that the community is well-represented in the Governance Committee. In
this election four people must be elected, each with two-year terms.

If you have made contributions to our ecosystem not measured by the automatic
process, you can request
[an exception](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/614ece1538e6697842bc25d436d8d70ab6175808/governance-charter.md?from_branch=main#members-of-standing)
to participate in the election before 23:59 UTC on 17 October 2022. The voter
roll with all members of standing and approved exceptions will be published here
by 11 October 2022 and continuously updated.

Voting will be open between 00:00 UTC on 18 October 2022 00:00 UTC and 20
October 2022 23:59 UTC on
[Helios Voting](https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elections/76558134-3384-11ed-8688-02871af94755/view);
voters will need to sign in with their GitHub account.

For more information, see the
[OpenTelemetry 2022 Governance Committee election](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/fe12ecb89802550b4d3daa9a30646157c540b391/elections/2022/governance-committee-election.md?from_branch=main).

## Interested in joining the Governance Committee?

If you’ve been working on OpenTelemetry and seeing it grow, or are an end-user
that wants to help us make OpenTelemetry better, now’s the time to consider
running for a seat on the Governance Committee. You can read about the
Governance Committee's role in
[this blog](/blog/2019/opentelemetry-governance-committee-explained/) post or
refer to the
[charter document](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/614ece1538e6697842bc25d436d8d70ab6175808/governance-charter.md?from_branch=main).
You may nominate yourself (or others!) by submitting a Pull Request against the
[list of candidates](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/24b30b978af4a71066655c62dfc50a2e60101d06/elections/2022/governance-committee-candidates.md?from_branch=main)
by 7 October 2022 23:59 UTC — see the detailed requirements under
[nominations](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/fe12ecb89802550b4d3daa9a30646157c540b391/elections/2022/governance-committee-election.md?from_branch=main#nominations)
for the Governance Committee election.

We would like to thank the GC members who have helped grow OpenTelemetry, and
invite them to run for re-election if they so choose: Alolita Sharma, Daniel
Dyla, Liz Fong-Jones and Morgan McLean. After this election, the Governance
Committee will comprise 9 members with staggered 2-year terms, all elected by
the community.

## Questions?

For any election related questions, please file an issue on the
[community repository](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues) here
and tag [@jpkrohling](https://github.com/jpkrohling),
[@bogdandrutu](https://github.com/bogdandrutu), and
[@bhs](https://github.com/bhs). Or send us a message on
[CNCF Slack](https://slack.cncf.io/) in
[#opentelemetry](https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/CJFCJHG4Q) if you have
an urgent access issue during voting.

See you at the polls!