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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: Members of the OpenTelemetry Project |
| 3 | +linkTitle: Members |
| 4 | +weight: 30 |
| 5 | +cSpell:ignore: subproject triagers |
| 6 | +--- |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +The OpenTelemetry community consists of many individuals from different |
| 9 | +backgrounds, who help to accomplish the |
| 10 | +[vision and mission](/community/mission/) of the project. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +Below you find all the established community members in their different roles |
| 13 | +for the project. |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +If you are a contributor to the OpenTelemetry project already, and not listed |
| 16 | +here, you either have not |
| 17 | +[set your membership to public](https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-your-membership-in-organizations/publicizing-or-hiding-organization-membership), |
| 18 | +or you need to take a look in our |
| 19 | +[contributor guidelines](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/guides/contributor/membership.md) |
| 20 | +on how you can start your contributor as a member, and move up the ladder, all |
| 21 | +the way to maintainer! |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +## Governance Committee |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +The Governance Committee (GC) is the governing body of the OpenTelemetry |
| 26 | +project. Members of the GC are |
| 27 | +[elected by the Members Of Standing in the OpenTelemetry community](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/governance-charter.md#elections) |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +{{% community/members-list "governance-committee" %}} |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +## Technical Committee |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +The Technical Committee (TC) is responsible for all technical development within |
| 34 | +the OpenTelemetry project. |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +{{% community/members-list "technical-committee" %}} |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +## Specification Sponsors |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +Specification sponsors are trusted collaborators of the technical committee, and |
| 41 | +work to review, approve, and sponsor |
| 42 | +[OpenTelemetry specification](/docs/specs/otel/) issues and PRs. |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +{{% community/members-list "spec-sponsors" %}} |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +## Maintainers |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +Maintainers are the technical authority for a subproject in the OpenTelemetry |
| 49 | +project. Maintainers set technical direction and make or approve design |
| 50 | +decisions for their subproject. |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +{{% community/members-list "maintainers" %}} |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +## Approvers |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +Code approvers are able to both review and approve code contributions, as well |
| 57 | +as help maintainers triage issues and do project management. |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +{{% community/members-list "approvers" %}} |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +## Triagers |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +Triagers assist the maintainers and approvers with project management and |
| 64 | +backlog organization. The specific workflows and triage requirements depend on |
| 65 | +the project, and are set by the project maintainers. |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +{{% community/members-list "triagers" %}} |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +## Members |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +Members are continuously active contributors in the community. They can have |
| 72 | +issues and PRs assigned to them. Members are expected to participate in SIG(s) |
| 73 | +and remain active contributors to the community. |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +{{% community/members-list "members" %}} |
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