open-telemetry/community

OpenTelemetry community is a community governance and coordination hub for an open-source observability project.

The project addresses the need for organized collaboration across a distributed community working on standardized observability instrumentation and tooling. It provides structure through governing bodies, special interest groups organized by specification, implementation, and cross-cutting concerns, and communication channels that enable contributors to coordinate work and make decisions transparently.

Developers should engage with this repository if they want to contribute to OpenTelemetry's core specifications, language implementations, or ecosystem tools. It suits organizations building observability solutions that need to align with community standards or those seeking to influence the direction of distributed tracing and metrics standards. The project explicitly welcomes new contributors through dedicated Slack channels and a contributor guide, making it accessible to those unfamiliar with the community's processes.

The project maintains active governance through two committees with publicly available meeting notes and recordings. Special interest groups operate across multiple technical domains with documented membership and areas of interest. Communication infrastructure includes dedicated Slack channels, a published calendar of meetings, and mailing lists to support asynchronous participation across time zones.