blog: community award winners 2025 (#8395)

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+title: Announcing 2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards Winners
+linkTitle: OpenTelemetry Community Awards Winners
+date: 2025-11-12
+author: OpenTelemetry Governance Committee
+# prettier-ignore
+cSpell:ignore: brettmc ChrsMark jsuereth Markou Pająk pellared Suereth Todea Vasconcellos vitorvasc
+---
+
+We are excited to announce the winners of the second **OpenTelemetry Community
+Awards**! These awards recognize individuals who have made a notable impact to
+the OpenTelemetry project over the past year, whether it's through code,
+documentation, project management, outreach, adoption, or simply helping others
+answer technical questions on our [CNCF Slack](https://slack.cncf.io/). We
+received many nominations from the community, and we are delighted to share the
+winners with you.
+
+Let's congratulate our 2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards winners:
+
+- [@vitorvasc](https://github.com/vitorvasc) (Vitor Vasconcellos)
+- [@DidiViking](https://github.com/DidiViking) (Diana Todea)
+- [@ChrsMark](https://github.com/ChrsMark) (Christos Markou)
+- [@brettmc](https://github.com/brettmc) (Brett McBride)
+- [@jsuereth](https://github.com/jsuereth) (Josh Suereth)
+- [@pellared](https://github.com/pellared) (Robert Pająk)
+
+We have collected any attached comments (some of them summarized) from all
+received nominations. These demonstrate the great appreciation from the
+community towards all nominated individuals. You can find those comments in the
+following
+[presentation slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iyR2HhYaAl1DMFl0992atj76mu0wqY6M/).
+
+We would like to thank everyone who participated in the nomination process, and
+we congratulate the winners for their outstanding contributions to the
+OpenTelemetry project.

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