Mikel has been an active contributor to our community since August 2024, taking responsibilities on his shoulders at several levels. Since February 2025, he has been a committer and has demonstrated strong leadership skills, embodying the Eclipse Tractus-X community collaboration spirit in his daily work across several products to which he contributes:
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/automotive.tractusx/CM/mgarciab
Mikel also expresses that spirit at our community events, proudly embracing his committer role and openly showing his passion for Tractus-X. He cares deeply about our community initiatives and the quality of our products; therefore, he has taken over the Technical Leadership of the Umbrella Implementation after Evelyn (previous project lead) left the project:
https://eclipse-tractusx.github.io/community/open-meetings#Umbrella%20H…
And is driving the updates from the umbrella to our latest releases, supporting us increasing the quality of our code and is already leading the community to work together.
He actively informs the community when there are problems with our services that affect all of us:
• https://matrix.to/#/!qZkRenDKdhqXlBVIfo:matrix.eclipse.org/$sJXTwKTDfjX……
• https://matrix.to/#/!qZkRenDKdhqXlBVIfo:matrix.eclipse.org/$CxnvyjVzDuq……
Not only does he inform others, but he also proposes and implements solutions — for example, when he actively updated our Helm Chart TRGs to support CloudPirates with the issue regarding Bitnami, posting about it in the mailing list:
• https://www.eclipse.org/lists/tractusx-dev/msg00690.html
• https://www.eclipse.org/lists/tractusx-dev/msg00693.html
And opening a pull request with the updates done:
- https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/eclipse-tractusx.github.io/pull/1367
- https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/eclipse-tractusx.github.io/pull/1377
- Example provided by him: https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/ssi-dim-wallet-stub/pull/86
Mikel, at our fourth Tractus-X Community Days, led and organized the Dataspace Connectivity Workshop together with other committers:
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/eclipse-tractusx.github.io/wiki/EDC……
He has also actively volunteered to support the community in organizing the next Community Days (Fifth Eclipse Tractus-X Community Days), both at the event/overall level and at a technical level with the infrastructure for the workshops. And he is leading the Dataspace Connectivity this year again together with other committers.
Now for the fifth TXCD (the next community event), he has taken the role of organizer and moderator of the developer panel with me, bringing together different developer stakeholders from our community.
Last but not least, regarding our Eclipse Tractus-X Community internationalization strategy (to be announced at the community days), Mikel will be our first international project lead and would support us in expanding the project in Spain, finding new developers, and engaging in community events on our behalf.
Therefore, it is an honor for me to nominate Mikel Garcia Bartolome as a project lead, because of our objective of expanding our Eclipse Tractus-X community globally, from his demonstrated servant leadership skills and his community focus engagements.
| Voter | Vote | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Mathias Brunkow Moser | +1 | +1 implied by nomination |
| Carlos Diez Rodriguez | +1 | I fully support Mikel Garcia’s nomination as Project Lead for Eclipse Tractus-X. His consistent contributions, technical leadership, and commitment to fostering collaboration within the community make him exceptionally well-suited for this role. I am confident that his guidance will continue to strengthen our project and its global reach. |
| Andrii Yurkevych | +1 | |
| Muhammad Saud Khan | +1 | Very good candidate for the Project Lead. Well-organized contributions and demonstrated his leadership in various contributions. |
| Rafael Magalhães | +1 | Strong +1. He fits all the requirements. |
| Robin Gottschalk | +1 | |
| Nico Koprowski | +1 | |
| Sujit Karne | +1 | |
| Gábor Almádi | +1 |