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Get Involved

There is a lot to do! If you are interested in getting involved, please join the mailing lists and attend the community meetings. If you're interested in contributing to a specific part of the project, please join the appropriate special interest group (SIG). Details for all of these items are below. We are a friendly, collaborative group and look forward to working together!

Governing Bodies

Both committees meet regularly, and the respective meeting notes are publicly available in the GC meeting notes and the TC meeting notes Google Docs. The Governance Committee meetings are also recorded. If you want to check out the recordings, head to the meeting recordings.

Areas of Interest

Technical committee members, maintainers, and approvers are encouraged to list their areas of interest in this document to help community members find interested parties and form new special interest groups.

Communication

Discussions

We use GitHub discussions for most communications. Please join us there!

For those who are brand new to OpenTelemetry and want to chat or get redirected to the appropriate place for a specific question, feel free to join the CNCF OpenTelemetry Slack channel. If you are new, you can create a CNCF Slack account here.

Calendar

The shared community calendar contains all public OpenTelemetry meetings, including weekly SIG meetings, monthly community meetings, etc. You can access it via:

The best way to subscribe to specific OpenTelemetry meeting series is to join the associated calendar-...@opentelemetry.io meeting invite groups below. This will invite you to the specific OpenTelemetry meetings, correctly block time for accepted meetings, and keep your calendar in sync with new and updated events.

Alternatively, if you wish to subscribe to all OpenTelemetry meeting series you can subscribe to calendar-all@opentelemetry.io.

Mailing Lists

List Name Signup Membership Write Permissions Read Permissions Notes
cncf-opentelemetry-community@lists.cncf.io Here anyone GC and TC anyone
NotesThe community mailing list is for anybody who wants to monitor the latest news from the project. It is used to send updates on community meetings and announcements about new projects and SIGs. There is minimal moderation for a new user to reduce spam, and new users are approved after one post.
cncf-opentelemetry-contributors@lists.cncf.io Here anyone anyone anyone
NotesThe discussions mailing list is for anyone who is interested in contributing to OpenTelemetry or has questions (related to the contribution, technical issues,etc) they’d like to discuss. Will be used to announce updates related to how the project is being developed and ask general contribution questions related to the contribution processes. No approval is required to join.
cncf-opentelemetry-tc@lists.cncf.io N/A TC anyone members
NotesUsed by the OpenTelemetry Technical Committee for internal communication. This mailing list should be used sparingly as we strive to keep all communication public. It only should be used to contact the Technical Committee with questions that cannot be discussed publicly on GitHub, GitHub discussions, or the community or contributors' mailing lists.
cncf-opentelemetry-governance@lists.cncf.io N/A GC anyone members
NotesUsed by the OpenTelemetry GC for internal communication. Additionally, contact the GC for questions that cannot be discussed publicly on GitHub, GitHub discussions, or other mailing lists. For instance, members could use this for issues related to improper applications of our community membership guidance.
cncf-opentelemetry-comms@lists.cncf.io Here GC and open for anyone anyone anyone
NotesMailing list to notify and request reviews of upcoming announcements, or request a post on the OpenTelemetry Twitter account or other public channels.

Media

For PR & Marketing inquiries, please contact pr@cncf.io.

License

All OpenTelemetry projects are shipped under the permissive Apache 2.0 license as CNCF IP Policy dictates. This blog post explains the reasoning behind choosing this license. Refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for details on code attribution.

Logos and Brand Guide

The OpenTelemetry logos and brand guide can be found in the CNCF artwork repository. In addition, a Google Slides template is also available.

How to

Special Interest Groups

We organize the community into Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to improve our workflow and more efficiently manage a community project. While meetings are expected to happen regularly, they are subject to contributors' availability and may be rescheduled or changed at time. Check our public calendar and SIG-specific GitHub discussions for meeting changes and cancellations. All meetings happen over Zoom, have a meeting notes document, and are recorded and available on Zoom cloud.

Please do not hesitate to contact SIG owners if the proposed time of the meeting or tools used is unavailable for you. For instance, it is a good practice to alternate morning/evening meetings once SIG has representatives from 3 largely distinct timezones. The best way to report it and suggest an alternative is to file an issue on this repository or discuss it in SIG-specific GitHub discussions.

Specification SIGs

Name Meeting Time Meeting Notes Slack Channel Meeting Invites Group Sponsors Governance Committee Liaison
Specification: General Every Tuesday at 08:00 PT Google Doc #otel-specification calendar-spec-general
Specification: Sampling Every Thursday at 08:00 PT Google Doc #otel-sampling calendar-spec-sampling Josh MacDonald Daniel Dyla
Specification: Configuration Every other Monday at 8:00 PT Google Doc #otel-config-file calendar-spec-config Carlos Alberto,
Jack Berg
Trask Stalnaker
Specification: Events Every Friday at 10:00 AM PT Google Doc #otel-event calendar-spec-events Ted Young,
Trask Stalnaker
Ted Young
Semantic Conventions: General Every Monday at 08:00 PT Google Doc #otel-semantic-conventions-wg calendar-semconv Armin Ruech,
Josh Suereth,
Reiley Yang
Trask Stalnaker
Semantic Conventions: Tooling Every Wednesday at 07:00 PT Google Doc #otel-semantic-conventions-wg calendar-semconv Josh Suereth
Semantic Conventions: Messaging Every Thursday at 8:00 PT Google Doc #otel-messaging calendar-semconv Johannes Tax,
Liudmila Molkova
Trask Stalnaker
Semantic Conventions: Database Every Wednesday at 9:30 PT and Friday at 8:30 PT Google Doc #otel-db-client-semconv-stability-wg calendar-semconv Jack Berg,
Liudmila Molkova
Trask Stalnaker
Semantic Conventions: System Metrics Every Thursday at 07:30 PT Google Doc #otel-system-metrics-wg calendar-semconv Josh Suereth Severin Neumann
Semantic Conventions: LLM Every Wednesday alternating between 10:00 and 16:00 PT Google Doc #otel-llm-semconv-wg calendar-semconv Alolita Sharma,
Liudmila Molkova
Alolita Sharma
Semantic Conventions: CI/CD Meets during Semantic Conventions: General Google Doc #otel-semconv-security calendar-semconv Josh Suereth,
Carlos Alberto
Trask Stalnaker
Semantic Conventions: Security Meets during Semantic Conventions: General Google Doc #otel-semconv-security calendar-semconv Josh Suereth Trask Stalnaker
Semantic Conventions: Sustainability Every Monday at 7:00 PT Google Doc #otel-sustainability-semconv-sig calendar-semconv Johannes Tax,
Daniel Gomez Blanco
Daniel Gomez Blanco
Specification: Entities Every other week on Thursday at 08:00 AM PT Google Doc #otel-entities calendar-entities Josh Suereth,
Tigran Najaryan
Daniel Dyla
Agent Management Every other week on Tuesday at 11:00 PT Google Doc #otel-agentmanwg calendar-agent-mgmt Tigran Najaryan Ted Young
Prometheus Interoperability Every other week on Wednesday at 08:00 PT Google Doc #otel-prometheus-wg calendar-prometheus Alolita Sharma
Functions as a Service (FAAS) Every other Tuesday at 12:00 PM PT Google Doc #otel-faas calendar-faas Austin Parker
Profiling Every other week on Thursday at 08:00 AM PT Google Doc #otel-profiles calendar-profiling Josh Suereth,
Tigran Najaryan
Morgan McLean
OpenTelemetry on Mainframes Weekly on Tuesday at 10:00 AM PT Google Doc #otel-mainframes calendar-mainframe Alolita Sharma,
Daniel Dyla,
Morgan McLean
Morgan McLean
Client Instrumentation Every Tuesday at 9:00 AM PT Google Doc #otel-client-side-telemetry calendar-client-side Daniel Gomez Blanco

Implementation SIGs

Name Meeting Time Meeting Notes Slack Channel Meeting Invites Group Governance Committee Liaison
Android: SDK + Automatic Instrumentation Every Tuesday at 08:00 PT Google Doc #otel-android calendar-android Trask Stalnaker
Collector Every Wednesday at 09:00 PT plus monthly on first Wednesday at 00:00 PT and on third Wednesday at 16:00 PT Google Doc #otel-collector calendar-collector Juraci Paixão Kröhling
C++: SDK Every week alternating between Monday at 13:00 PT and Wednesday at 9:00 PT Google Doc #otel-cpp calendar-cpp Severin Neumann
.NET: Automatic Instrumentation Every Wednesday at 9:00 PT Google Doc #otel-dotnet-auto-instr calendar-dotnet Morgan McLean
.NET: SDK Every Tuesday alternating between 9:00 and 16:00 PT Google Doc #otel-dotnet calendar-dotnet Morgan McLean
Erlang/Elixir: SDK Every other Thursday at 9:00 PT Google Doc #otel-erlang-elixir calendar-erlang Austin Parker
GoLang: SDK Every Thursday alternating between 9:00 and 10:00 PDT Google Doc #otel-go calendar-go Ted Young
GoLang: Automatic Instrumentation Every other week on Tuesday at 9:30 PT Google Doc #otel-go-instrumentation calendar-go Juraci Paixão Kröhling
Java: SDK + Automatic Instrumentation Every Thursday at 09:00 PT Google Doc #otel-java calendar-java Trask Stalnaker
JavaScript: SDK Every Wednesday at 09:00 PT Google Doc #otel-js and GitHub Discussions calendar-js Daniel Dyla
PHP: SDK Every Wednesday at 10:30 PT Google Doc #otel-php calendar-php Severin Neumann
Python: SDK Every Thursday at 09:00 PT Google Doc #otel-python calendar-python Daniel Gomez Blanco
Ruby: SDK Every Tuesday at 09:00 PT Google Doc #otel-ruby and GitHub Discussions calendar-ruby Ted Young
Rust: SDK Every Tuesday at 09:00 PT Google Doc #otel-rust and Gitter calendar-rust Ted Young
Swift: SDK Every Thursday at 09:00 PT Google Doc #otel-swift calendar-swift Alolita Sharma
eBPF Every week on Tuesday at 09:00 PT Google Doc #otel-ebpf calendar-ebpf Ted Young
Kubernetes Operator Every other week on Thursday at 09:00 PT Google Doc #otel-operator calendar-k8s-operator Juraci Paixão Kröhling
Community Demo Application Every Wednesday at 8:00 PT Google Doc #otel-community-demo calendar-demo-app Austin Parker

Cross-Cutting SIGs

Name Meeting Time Meeting Notes Slack Channel Meeting Invites Group Governance Committee Liaison
Maintainer Meeting Every Monday at 09:00 PT Google Doc #otel-maintainers calendar-maintainer-meeting Morgan McLean
Communications (Website, Documentation, etc.) Every other week on Monday at 10:00 PT Google Doc #otel-comms calendar-comms Severin Neumann
End-User SIG Every other week on Thursday at 10:00 PT Google Doc #otel-user-research calendar-user-research Daniel Gomez Blanco
Security Weekly on Wednesday at 08:30 AM PT Google Doc #otel-sig-security calendar-sig-security Juraci Paixão Kröhling

Related groups

W3C - Distributed Tracing Working Group

Join W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group to discuss standardization efforts in distributed tracing space.

Erlang Ecosystem Foundation – Observability Working Group

The Erlang and Elixir API and SDK are maintained by the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation Observability Working Group members. See the Observability Working Group page on the EEF website for details.

CNCF TAG Observability - Technical Advisory Group

The CNCF TAG Observability is a technical advisory group for observability that focuses on topics pertaining to the observation of cloud native workloads. Check out the CNCF TAG Observability page for details.

K8s SIG - Instrumentation Special Interest Group

The K8s SIG Instrumentation special interest group coordinates metric requirements of different SIGs for other components through finding common APIs. This group also covers best practices for cluster observability through metrics, logging, and events across all Kubernetes components. See the Instrumentation Special Interest Group for details on joining this group.

OpenMetrics

OpenMetrics is an effort to create an open standard for transmitting metrics at scale, supporting text representation and Protocol Buffers. See the OpenMetrics page for details.

eBPF Foundation

The eBPF foundation aims to facilitate collaboration between eBPF projects, and to ensure good maintenance and clear roadmap for eBPF core. See the eBPF Foundation page for more details.