Telemetry Talks ep 8 - Fireside chat with OpenTelemetry maintainers
Telemetry Talks episode 8 is here 🎙️
We sat down with OTel maintainers to talk about the future of the community, GenAI semantic conventions, contributing beyond code, OTel in Practice, and what they’re currently building, writing, organizing, and experimenting with across the CloudNative and OpenSource ecosystem. A conversation about where OTel is today and what comes next.
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1:00 Intros
14:00 OTel graduated: now what? Where's the community heading?
25:35 Examples from End User, Demo, and Comms special interest groups
49:20 What are OTel GenAI Semantic Conventions?
1:08:40 How to start contributing to OTel?
1:12:50 Come chat with OTel maintainers at future events!
How to contribute to OpenTelemetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch
"OTel has graduated" blog article: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/08/31/opentelemetry-has-graduated-now-what-2/
Learn about OTel GC Elections: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/gc-elections/, https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/3677.
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