# [[GLPDE - How to contribute to OpenTelemetry]]
![[GLPDE - How to contribute to OpenTelemetry.svg]]
speakers:: "[[Liudmila Molkova]]"
[slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OSt0BwAbtVGNUdGYVy8Hu-RJxzCFZBFttCPlHdCrxWo/edit?slide=id.g379d0b3ece9_0_0#slide=id.g379d0b3ece9_0_0)
- Liudmila has done OTel before OTel started, technical committee member of OTel, has done distributed tracing implementation
- OTel is a CNCF incubation project but will graduate soon
- Where to start?
- Scratch your own itch
- Do what helps your advocacy area
- Fix customer-impacting issues and gaps we know of
![[grafana-glpde-how-to-contribute-to-otel-logs.png]]
![[grafana-glpde-how-to-contribute-to-otel-other-opps.png]]
![[grafana-glpde-how-to-contribute-to-otel-community-roles.png]]
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