Marylia Gutierrez, principal software engineer at Grafana Labs and an OpenTelemetry maintainer, joins Code RED guest host Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0’s principal developer relations engineer, for a deep dive into how OpenTelemetry really works. They unpack how contributors get started, SIGs, why non-code contributions like documentation, localization, and governance matter just as much as PRs, and what it takes to grow from first-time contributor to maintainer.
Links mentioned in the episode:
How to Contribute to OpenTelemetry, by Marylia Gutierrez: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/contribute-to-otel/
OpenTelemetry community resources: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/contributing/
