--- title: Announcing the 2026 Governance Committee Election Results description: OpenTelemetry announced the results of its 2026 Governance Committee election. Dan Gomez Blanco, Josh Suereth, Pablo Baeyens Fernández, and Trask Stalnaker won... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-the-2026-governance-committee-election-results-4gvscjajj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Announcing the 2026 Governance Committee Election Results | daily.dev og:description: OpenTelemetry announced the results of its 2026 Governance Committee election. Dan Gomez Blanco, Josh Suereth, Pablo Baeyens Fernández, and Trask Stalnaker won... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-the-2026-governance-committee-election-results-4gvscjajj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4gVScJAjj.png og:image:alt: Announcing the 2026 Governance Committee Election Results og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Announcing the 2026 Governance Committee Election Results **[OpenTelemetry](https://daily.dev/sources/opentelemetry)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenTelemetry announced the results of its 2026 Governance Committee election. Dan Gomez Blanco, Josh Suereth, Pablo Baeyens Fernández, and Trask Stalnaker won the four open seats and will each serve a two-year term. Of 836 eligible contributors, 345 cast ballots, a 41% participation rate, in line with last year's 39% (273 of 702 eligible). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Who was elected to the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee in the 2026 election? Dan Gomez Blanco, Josh Suereth, Pablo Baeyens Fernández, and Trask Stalnaker were elected to fill the four open seats on the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee. Each will serve a two-year term. The election had 836 eligible voters, of whom 345 cast ballots, a 41% participation rate, similar to the prior year's 39%. _Contributors tracking OpenTelemetry's leadership and roadmap can follow project governance news on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Announcing the 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-the-2026-opentelemetry-governance-committee-election-kfqfg3pkd) · OpenTelemetry · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Istio Project Announces 2026 Technical Oversight Committee Election Results](https://daily.dev/posts/istio-project-announces-2026-technical-oversight-committee-election-results-r51nqamov) · Istio · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing the 2026 Steering Committee Election Results](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-the-2026-steering-committee-election-results-cxo24jmzd) · K8S Contributors · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Results from the 2026 TAB election](https://daily.dev/posts/results-from-the-2026-tab-election-qdpxgvjh5) · LWN.net · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#opentelemetry](https://daily.dev/tags/opentelemetry) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-the-2026-governance-committee-election-results-4gvscjajj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Announcing the 2026 Governance Committee Election Results","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-the-2026-governance-committee-election-results-4gvscjajj","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-the-2026-governance-committee-election-results-4gvscjajj"},"datePublished":"2026-10-29T16:37:08.631Z","dateModified":"2026-10-29T16:44:03.774Z","description":"OpenTelemetry announced the results of its 2026 Governance Committee election. 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