# Announcing the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election

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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](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 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](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/614ece1538e6697842bc25d436d8d70ab6175808/governance-charter.md?from_branch=main#elections)
before 23:59 UTC on 24 October 2025 to participate in the election. See the
[voter roll](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/f7b99ef75580e4d88159e66730e1b8bc6719ce30%5E/elections/2025/voters-roll.csv)
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~~](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/3001#issuecomment-3449011021)
12:00 UTC and 29 October 2025, end of day,
[Anywhere on Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth) (30 October
2025 12:00 UTC) on
[Helios Voting](https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elections/f94a7c58-990b-11f0-a16d-5270fb641b4c/view);
voters will need to sign in with their GitHub account.

For more information, see the
[OpenTelemetry 2025 Governance Committee election](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/55c58353ce8651dbb5269ca91bb6dde5b47bac2e/elections/2025/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 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](/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/1b7d0d85924677149593a18639ce0b897ed4751f/elections/2025/governance-committee-candidates.md?from_branch=main)
by 17 October 2025 23:59 UTC — see the detailed requirements under
[nominations](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/55c58353ce8651dbb5269ca91bb6dde5b47bac2e/elections/2025/governance-committee-election.md?from_branch=main#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](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues)
tagging the `@open-telemetry/otel-elections` team, email us at
[cncf-opentelemetry-governance@lists.cncf.io](mailto:cncf-opentelemetry-governance@lists.cncf.io),
or reach out to us 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!