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+title: OpenTelemetry Contribfest at KubeCon North America 2023
+linkTitle: OpenTelemetry Contribfest at KubeCon North America 2023
+date: 2023-11-09
+author: '[Alex Boten](https://github.com/codeboten) (Lightstep)'
+cSpell:ignore: Boten Contribfest
+---
+
+![OpenTelemetry Contribfest at KubeCon North America 2023](contribfest-1.png 'OpenTelemetry Contribfest at KubeCon North America 2023')
+
+This year marked many milestones for the OpenTelemetry project. The project
+achieve the goals it had set in 2019 by announcing the general availability of
+of the logging signal, the last of the signals it had originally committed to.
+In addition, the project continued to grow the number of contributors, being the
+second most active project in the CNCF for a second year in a row, behind
+Kubernetes.
+
+### What's Contribfest?
+
+In an effort to bring more contributors to the table, OpenTelemetry maintainers
+hosted the project’s first [Contribfest](https://sched.co/1R2rQ) at KubeCon
+North America 2023. The goal of a Contribfest is to bring people with all levels
+of experience together with community members to work through the steps needed
+to make a contribution to the project. This year,
+[Juraci](https://github.com/jpkrohling/),
+[Anthony](https://github.com/aneurysm9/),
+[Tyler](https://github.com/tylerhelmuth), [Daniel](https://github.com/dyladan),
+and [myself](https://github.com/codeboten) volunteered to host the event and
+guide newcomers. The hosts of the session prepared ahead of time by combing
+through various repositories and labelling issues with the `Contribfest` label.
+Since the session is only 90 minutes long, it was important to try and find
+items that would be appropriate to tackle in that time. Some slides were also
+prepared, to give attendees an overview of the project, help them navigate the
+repositories, and explain the process of submitting code.
+
+### The event
+
+When the day of the event arrived, the room was completely full. After a few
+minutes to cover the content in the slides, contributors were ready to write
+some code, and questions came in fast. Questions from contributors ranged across
+all levels of expertise, and many OpenTelemetry community members came to the
+session to help answer them. The session began with 53 open issues, and by the
+end of the session, 2 pull requests had already been merged with another 11 pull
+requests having been opened.
+
+![Contributors typing furiously](contribfest-2.png 'Contributors typing furiously')
+
+Even more importantly than the contributions themselves, many great
+conversations and much learning stemmed from the collaborations both for the
+hosts and the attendees. The planning has already started for the next
+Contribfest. Thanks to all the participants for making this inaugural event such
+a success.

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