Announcing the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election
The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by 17 October 2025 23:59 UTC. The list of eligible candidates will be shared on 20 October 2025. Voting will take place between 27 October 2025 00:00 UTC and 29 October 2025 end of day, and the final election results will be announced 31 October 2025.
Vote!
If you are a member of standing in the OpenTelemetry community, we invite you to participate with your vote in this election to ensure that the community is well-represented in the Governance Committee. In this election five 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 before 23:59 UTC on 24 October 2025 to participate in the election. See the voter roll with all members of standing and approved exceptions. Approved exceptions will be added to the roll continuously.
Voting will be open between 27 October 2025 00:00 UTC and 29 October 2025 23:59 29 October 2025, end of day, Anywhere on Earth (30 October 2025 12:00 UTC) on Helios Voting; voters will need to sign in with their GitHub account.
For more information, see the OpenTelemetry 2025 Governance Committee election.
Interested in joining the Governance Committee?
If you’ve been working on OpenTelemetry and seeing it grow or you’re an end-user who 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 post or refer to the charter document. You may nominate yourself (or others!) by submitting a Pull Request against the list of candidates by 17 October 2025 23:59 UTC — see the detailed requirements under nominations for the Governance Committee election.
We would like to thank the GC members whose term expires this year; they have helped grow OpenTelemetry, and invite them to run for re-election if they so choose: Austin Parker, Daniel Gomez Blanco, Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Severin Neumann, and Ted Young.
Questions?
For any election related questions, please file an issue on the
community repository
tagging the @open-telemetry/otel-elections team, email us at
cncf-opentelemetry-governance@lists.cncf.io,
or reach out to us on CNCF Slack in
#opentelemetry if you have
an urgent access issue during voting.
See you at the polls!