Blogpost to annoucing 2024 OTel Community Awards winners (#5613)

Author: danielgblanco

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+title: Announcing 2024 OpenTelemetry Community Awards Winners
+linkTitle: OpenTelemetry Community Awards Winners
+date: 2024-11-15
+author: OpenTelemetry Governance Committee
+# prettier-ignore
+cSpell:ignore: anunarapureddy Anusha avillela codeboten emdneto Narapureddy ozal serkan Serkan Özal
+---
+
+We are excited to announce the winners of the first-ever **OpenTelemetry
+Community Awards**! These awards recognize individuals who have made a notable
+impact to OpenTelemetry project over the past year, whether it's through code,
+documentation, project management, outreach, adoption, or simply helping others
+answer technical questions on our [CNCF Slack](https://slack.cncf.io/). We
+received many nominations from the community, and we are delighted to share the
+winners with you.
+
+Let's congratulate our 2024 OpenTelemetry Community Awards winners:
+
+- [@serkan-ozal](https://github.com/serkan-ozal) (Serkan Özal)
+- [@anunarapureddy](https://github.com/anunarapureddy) (Anusha Narapureddy)
+- [@avillela](https://github.com/avillela) (Adriana Villela)
+- [@codeboten](https://github.com/codeboten) (Alex Boten)
+- [@emdneto](https://github.com/emdneto) (Emídio Neto)
+
+We have collected any attached comments (some of them summarized) from all
+received nominations. These demonstrate the great appreciation from the
+community towards all nominated individuals. You can find those comments in the
+following
+[presentation slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YaJvAWnNcUJd1RNsqvEYCcqvJUoj0TDd).
+
+We would like to thank everyone who participated in the nomination process, and
+we congratulate the winners for their outstanding contributions to the
+OpenTelemetry project.

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