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AndrejKiri

Andrej is a pioneer of applying UX research methods in the OTel community. This year, he became a triager of the OTel End-User SIG, co-authored a post on the OTel blog, co-hosted OTel Me podcast, served as a CNCF mentor, and will speak on an OTel related topic at PromCon EU.

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AndrejKiri

Andrej is one of our most active End User SIG members, and is always looking for ways to contribute and to improve things. He has served as LFX mentor to two mentees who have in turn contributed to OTel, and is a diligent and thoughtful mentor.

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andygol

I would like to nominate myself for the work I have done translating and supporting the Ukrainian localization of OpenTelemetry documentation.

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andykellr

Andy has been crucial to developing the OpAMP project as a maintainer of the OpAMP Go and OpAMP Spec repositories.

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atoulme

Antoine is an absolute legend and carries so much of the project. He is dedicated to pushing forward important improvements while also mentoring, reviewing, approving, merging. He is an inspiration and I strive to come close his talent while maintaining a great sense of humor.

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atoulme

Working hard and keeping it fun!

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austinlparker

He is a great guy.

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avillela

Adriana's leadership, tutorials, and stewardship have enabled the project to grow immensely. Her sessions, surveys, and blogs have leveled us up a ton, and I see the impacts of her work constantly.

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avillela

Adriana puts a lot of work on organizing OpenTelemetry Live sessions, and she also spreads OTel knowledge podcasts, videos... this is hugely appreciated!

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bidetofevil

Pushing Android development forward by coordinating efforts on OpenTelemetry-Kotlin project. Leading and collaborating on various sides of client-side improvements.

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bidetofevil

Many contributions to discussion in Android/Client SIG pushing forward usability of OpenTelemetry on mobile/client platforms.

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brettmc

Brett’s relentless work on OpenTelemetry has been nothing short of outstanding—he’s committed, driven, and meticulous in everything he does. He’s also deeply passionate about giving back to the community, always ready to lend a hand and share his knowledge.

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brettmc

Brett revived the OpenTelemetry PHP project, enabled auto-instrumentation, and progressed it to GA. This year he reviewed and assessed about 250 issues and PRs — an extraordinary contribution to the observability community

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brettmc

PHP maintainer par excellence!

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ChrsMark

Collector contributor and great guy to be around

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ChrsMark

I am nominating ChrsMark because he gives his time generously, supports others with patience and clarity, and consistently contributes thoughtful, high-impact improvements. Christos cares deeply about the project and the people behind it.

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ChrsMark

I nominate ChrsMark for his sustained technical contributions to the OpenTelemetry Collector and exceptional community leadership. He is collaborative, thoughtful, and dependable-consistently improving the project and contributor experience while guiding the ecosystem forward

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ChrsMark

Great engineer with many community contributions.

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codeboten

One of the pillars of Collector, great person

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danielgblanco

His book about OpenTelemetry is still one of the best ones in my personal library

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danielgblanco

Daniel taught a bunch of people in his talk at Edinburgh KCD about the importance of picking the right signals and eliciting meaning from them. Understanding of OTel concepts like context, resources and semantic conventions are now in my tool belt and all that thanks to Dan.

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dashpole

A researcher who pursues extreme performance.

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DidiViking

Diana drives OTel's global growth through localization leadership (Spanish SIG, Romanian SIG founder), exam development, and lots of speaking events

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DidiViking

Diana has been inspiring individuals to contribute to OpenTelemetry and advocating about the project this year.

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DidiViking

Diana is an OTel exam developer, cloud native events speaker and active contributor to localization SIGs for Spanish and Romanian. She advocates for OTel at various conferences, offering support and helping the community to grow. She published a series of articles on OTel as well.

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DidiViking

Diana is an active contributor on Spanish localization, created a SIG for Romanian localization, delivered multiple Cloud Native talks focused on OpenTelemetry, served as an OpenTelemetry exam developer, advocating for OTel and its importance in the observability ecosystem.

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DidiViking

Diana is an active contributor to Spanish localization SIG, founded the Romanian localization SIG, spoke at numerous cloud native conferences about OTel and served as an OTel exam developer. She continuously advocates for OTel in the observability ecosystem.

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DidiViking

Diana is an active member and contributor to OpenTelemetry and KCD organizer. She's great at welcoming newcomers and helps established members with their contributions

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DidiViking

DidiViking has made significant contributions to the localization of OpenTelemetry. While it already holds substantial influence in popular countries and regions, it is crucial to further promote OpenTelemetry to a broader range of nations and areas.

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DidiViking

For the OTel exam development and l10n contributions!

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DidiViking

Has a huge knowledge about the domain

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DidiViking

I simply love her presentations, even though I am new to the field, and she helps us translators and reviewers to localize the OpenTelemetry website into Romanian. SHe is always there with advice and ready to guide us.

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DidiViking

OTel exam developer, Spanish localization SIG member and contributor, creator of Romanian localization SIG, speaker at 11 events and conferences on OTel topic (including Cloud Native Days, KCDs).

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DidiViking

She is Awesome!

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DidiViking

The amazing initiative of supporting the translation of OpenTelemetry docs in Romanian, leading by example and setting the foundation for a group of contributors.

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DidiViking

Through Diana’s work with the Spanish and Romanian localization SIGs, Diana is helping to make OpenTelemetry more accessible to non-English speakers enabling them in turn to learn and contribute.

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DidiViking

Wonderful co-organizer for https://cloudnativedays.ro/. Her attributions at OTel: OTel exam developer, Spanish localization SIG member and contributor, creator of Romanian localization SIG, speaker at 11 events and conferences on OTel topic.

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dmathieu

A highly promising and very diligent maintainer.

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dmitryax

Writes the important Collector code

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dpaasman00

Dakota actively helps develop the OpenTelemetry Collector and has been one of the key contributors to the OpAMP project.

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IrinaKarantoniou

Support with Ro translations

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jaydeluca

Jay is an amazing contributor across the project. From Java, to Docs to driving the "Instrumentation Explorer" he is helping where he can! Way to go!

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jaydeluca

Jay's instrumentation explorer will massively improve the OTel documentation and user experience. He works across many SIGs (Comms, Collector, Go SDK, Java, etc.) to gather requirements. His ingenuity and helpfulness are invaluable to the project's overall goals.

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jmacd

The otel arrow project, though nascent, is incredibly exciting and I can't wait to see the next updates from it!

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jonathanmdr

He did good presentations about OpenTelemetry resources for Brazilian software engineers in Portuguese language for communities and companies also.

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jscancella

I championed OpenTelemetry as the observability standard within the United States Patent and Trademark Office—overturning a top-down Instana mandate. I led adoption across teams and built the OpenTelemetry-based observability suite now used enterprise-wide.

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jsuereth

What sets Josh apart for me is not his deep knowledge (which of course is awesome) but his interpersonal skills. He is a kind and understanding person that is always there to solve problems and help others succeed. OTel wouldn't be what it is without his presence.

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jsuereth

Josh has been an amazing evangelist for OpenTelemetry with many organizations. His passion for the project not only motivates people around him but it helps grow the community and understanding about the importance of this project.

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jsuereth

Josh seems to be everywhere, but I'm nominating Josh because of how he always listens, always takes in people's opinions and provides insightful answers, respectfully. IMO he represents the spirit of OTel!

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LisaHJung

Amazing job on the OpenTelemetry Getting Started series, looking forward to see more of this!:-)

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lmolkova

Liudmila's contribution to the OTel ecosystem as so invaluable! I honestly think she has super powers, because apart from having deep knowledge of many areas, she is also a super kinda human being and just a great person to work with.

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maryliag

Marylia consistently brings kindness, clarity and collaboration to the OpenTelemetry. When it comes to docs, she has an extraordinary commitment, expertise and knowledge of the processes, writing styles, and also demonstrates great dedication within the community.

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maryliag

Mary is a major contributor to OTEL. On my first contribution, she performed detailed and succinct checks on my developments and commits. She is always willing to help and very active in the community.

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maryliag

JavaScript, Contributor Experience, Database SemConv, Portuguese Localization, Documentation... just the things Marylia is doing! Way to go:-)

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maryliag

She is an inspiring person.

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maryliag

Marylia was very helpful to my journey of contributing to OTel, always helpful, patient and welcoming!

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maryliag

She is very helpful, welcoming and very active in the JS SDK

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mhausenblas

Michael's O11y News provide a great way for people to not just be up to date with what comes out of OTel's blogpost, but also other surrounding media, helping to increase awareness across boundaries. Keep it up Michael!

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mkelly

Mike was instrumental in building the OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder—github.com/observIQ/otel-distro-builder. He wanted to contribute a more simplistic and user friendly way of building complete OTel Collector distributions.

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MrAlias

I nominate Tyler for his leadership in the OpenTelemetry Go, and for driving the establishment of OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation. His guidance was key to the successful Beyla donation, expanding OpenTelemetry’s reach into eBPF-based observability.

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MrAlias

A maintainer with superb programming skills and experience, relentlessly pursuing performance and best practices, and is trustworthy.

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mx-psi

Pablo's leadership in the collector group has been fantastic, and I've loved getting to see the collector get closer and closer to the major milestones.

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mx-psi

Dedicated to OTel, considerate person

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nwanduka

Victoria joined the OTel End User SIG as an LFX Mentee doing overlapping work with the OTel/Prometheus working group, and has continued on in the End User SIG even after her internship was over. Her contributions have been invaluable, and she’s always willing to help out.

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paulsbruce

Paul believes in the mission of OTel, and his work to integrate OTel into the standards driven by other organizations like IEEE is hugely appreciated!

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pellared

He is a very rigorous and aspiring maintainer, as well as an outstanding leader in the open-source community.

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pellared

Robert is doing amazing work on OTel specification, especially around logs, clarifying any ambiguities and making spec more readable for everyone.

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pellared

Robert is an awesome professional and explains OTel concepts very accessibly. I attended his talk at Edinburgh KCD and loved every minute of it.

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pichlermarc

He is very active, helpful and does a lot in the JS SDK

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rafabene

He did good presentations about OpenTelemetry resources for Brazilian software engineers in Portuguese language.

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ralf0131

Huxing Zhang has helped to drive the Golang Compile time instrumentation SIG, collaborating with Datadog and Quesma to work on the first release of this project. He also help the promote OTel in the APAC area, including giving a OTel in practice of Alibaba session.

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reese-lee

Reese does a lot of "invisible" work to help organize OpenTelemetry Live and surveys, and she's expanding OTel awareness in areas that would not be familiar with the project otherwise!

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schmikei

Keith has contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib by merging processors upstream (like the unroll processor), and writing blog posts in the OpenTelemetry Community Blog.

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svrnm

Severin is a great contributor to the OpenTelemetry, his role as GC member makes the project more impactful.

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svrnm

He is great!

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svrnm

Support with Ro translations.

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theletterf

Fabrizio's dedication to the OpenTelemetry localization has made the project more accessible and welcoming to the global community. Thanks to his work, we're able to break the language barrier and reach developers all around the world.

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tiffany76

Tiffany is a driving force behind OpenTelemetry Documentation! Reviewing all the blogs, taking care of Collector Docs and so much more, amazing work!

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trask

Trask's guidance and work to improve our security and organizational posture have been massively helpful in our goal towards graduation.

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trask

Trask’s leadership and conflict-resolution skills have been invaluable for semantic conventions. He automated releases, participated in stabilization of multiple convention, and is pushing the Logs SIG forward on tough topics like span events and complex attributes.

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victorvarza

Support for RO translations.

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vitorvasc

Because you are an active user in the community, contributing to the growth of the tool.

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vitorvasc

Because of his contribution translating to the documentation to spanish and portuguese

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vitorvasc

Contributes a lot to documentation for the entire community

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vitorvasc

Desde hace más de un año viene contrinuyendo con el proyecto, especialmente en documentación y traducciones.

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vitorvasc

Es una persona espectacular! Una persona muy proactiva y dispuesta a colaborar con muchas cosas para la comunidad!

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vitorvasc

Excelent person and user, very passionate about OTel stack. He still has a lot of talent for the community.

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vitorvasc

Hace más de un año que Vitor viene sumando contribuciones en el proyecto de OpenTelemetry, particularmente con documentación y traducciones en portugués y español.

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vitorvasc

He is always thinking of ways to improve documentation and really cares about whether a feature is well documented or not.

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vitorvasc

He is doing a great job with the project documentation/translation

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vitorvasc

His contributions in translations contributed to the understanding of different developers in less technical areas.

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vitorvasc

His translations helped me and my team to delve deeper into OT's implementation and assisted our developers to be on pair regardless if they spoke english or not

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vitorvasc

Several pages translated to brazilian portuguese to assist me and my team to understand OTEL better

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vitorvasc

Vitor contributes actively to the OTel community, it's an honor to work with him

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vitorvasc

Vitor has been a great and dedicated contributor to the OpenTelemetry community, always eager to collaborate, share knowledge and make the project better for everyone in the community.

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vitorvasc

Vitor has made outstanding contributions to the OpenTelemetry documentation, consistently improving clarity and accessibility. His dedication and attention to detail have greatly enhanced the developer experience and community resources.

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vitorvasc

Vitor has made valuable contributions to the Spanish and Portuguese versions of the OpenTelemetry documentation. His work has had a significant impact on our company, particularly in Latin America, by facilitating the adoption and understanding of OpenTelemetry across the region.

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vitorvasc

Vitor impulsa el proyecto como approver, revisando y escribiendo documentación, y sumando traducciones al español y portugués. Además, acompaña de forma constante a contributors y personas usuarias, generando impacto en toda la comunidad.

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vitorvasc

Vitor impulsa el proyecto con mucho entusiasmo y lo comparte con la comunidad

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vitorvasc

Vitor is a young man who is very dedicated to OTEL and is always looking for ways to contribute and attract new members to the CNCF community as a whole. My first contribution to Open Source projects was in OTEL, thanks to Vitor's encouragement.

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vitorvasc

Vitor’s work on localizing the OpenTelemetry website has helped bring the project closer to a truly global audience. Making the documentation available in our native language greatly supports adoption and reduces the effort required to get everything up and running.

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vitorvasc

Vitor’s been a key contributor to the OpenTelemetry docs and localization teams, helping make the project clearer and more accessible in Spanish and Portuguese.

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vitorvasc

Victor es un gran colaborador tanto a nivel global como a nivel interno de nuestra empresa

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vitorvasc

Victor is a great contributor for opentelemetry project. During this year put a lot of efforts on the inclusion, working hard on the translation of the docs to Brazilian Portuguese and helping the community in tasks like "how to contribute" and been a great mentor.

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vitorvasc

Vitor has demonstrated consistent, meaningful contributions across multiple areas, from documentation quality and translation initiatives to community engagement and contributor onboarding. His steady presence and dedication exemplifies what the open source community looks like.

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vitorvasc

While member of the localization SIGs, Vitor’s helped bring OpenTelemetry to thousands of new users, especially Spanish and Portuguese speakers across Latin America.

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