OpenTelemetry Observes International Women’s Day 2021
Happy International Women’s Day!
The OpenTelemetry project would like to extend our thanks to all our women contributors. They’ve helped make OpenTelemetry the second most popular CNCF project after Kubernetes. A special shout-out to the women participating in the project’s governance committee and contributing as engineers, designers, editors, community cat-herders. Some of them include Alolita Sharma, Amelia Mango, Amye Scavarda Perrin, Constance Caramanolis, Emily Griffin, Eunice Kim, Harnidh Kaur, Hong Gao, Isobel Redelmeier, Jaana Dogan, Janet Vu, Kanwaldeep Dang, Karen Xu, Ling Huang, Liz Fong-Jones, Liudmila Molkova, Nina Stawski, Sarah Novotny, Zoe Cai.
International Women’s Day (IWD), held on March 8, is an annual global celebration of the technical, cultural and political achievements of women.
At OpenTelemetry, we support the goals and activities of IWD. We are proud of the opportunity to help women learn and grow technically and professionally. The project provides an opportunity for women to build their professional networks. On IWD, we celebrate the achievements of all women participants. To gain further insight into our efforts to increase diversity on the project you can follow this discussion thread. Please share your thoughts and suggestions on the topic with us.
OpenTelemetry has focused its efforts to increase diversity in open source by establishing an inclusive and welcoming community, and through participation in various mentorship and learning initiatives. We are thrilled to be participants in the Outreachy program, where 92% of internships have been awarded to women. The project maintainers have also been mentors in CNCF’s mentorship initiatives, including LFX Mentorship (previously known as Community Bridge), encouraging diverse participation in the project.
We welcome more women to get involved in the project. OpenTelemetry is one of the most welcoming and open projects I’ve participated in. As women developers, designers, tech writers, community mavens; professionals and students, we have an opportunity to be recognized for our achievements and help make open source projects more diverse and inclusive. So join in.
See you on the project!
Alolita
