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elections/2023/governance-committee-candidates.md

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+### Austin Parker
+![Austin Parker](static/austin-parker.jpg)
+
+- Company: Embargoed until 2nd Week of October
+- GitHub: [austinlparker](https://github.com/austinlparker)
+
+Austin Parker is the Community Maintainer of OpenTelemetry and long-term
+contributor. They have been involved in the project since inception, and have
+been a consistent advocate, organizer, and contributor. Austin has been a
+maintainer of the Communications and Demo SIGs, a co-chair and organizer of
+Observability Day event at KubeCon EU and NA, has authored two books on
+distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry, and is an overall swell person.
+
+If elected, Austin will continue to work on community advocacy, outreach, and
+contributor experience. OpenTelemetry is only as successful as it is because of
+its community, and the GC's role is to nurture and guide that community. They
+will prioritize efforts to increase the contributor and maintainer community
+size, ensure that the project is welcoming and inclusive, and to guide the
+project towards graduation and long-term success.