This isn't enough for a whole session or workshop, but we've been using Solr for a lot of small-to-medium-sized projects, and I've been interested in ways to optimize an environment to host a lot of little Solr instances (multicore?).
I've also been working a bit with Solango (Solr & Django) and am interested in what kind of development is happening with Solr connectors for simple webapp frameworks like that. -Andy Just one topic to toss out there. On 11/10/09 8:38 AM, "Erik Hatcher" <erikhatc...@mac.com> wrote: > I'm interested presenting something Solr+library related at c4l10. > I'm soliciting ideas from the community on what angle makes the most > sense. At first I was thinking a regular conference talk proposal, > but perhaps a preconference session would be better. I could be game > for a half day session. It could be either an introductory Solr > class, get up and running with Solr (+ Blacklight, of course). Or > maybe a more advanced session on topics like leveraging dismax, Solr > performance and scalability tuning, and so on, or maybe a freer form > Solr hackathon session where I'd be there to help with hurdles or > answer questions. > > Thoughts? Suggestions? Anything I can do to help the library world > with Solr is fair game - let me know. > > Thanks, > Erik > > On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Kevin S. Clarke wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> It's time again to collect proposals for Code4Lib 2010 preconference >> sessions. We have space for six full day sessions (or 12 half day >> sessions (or some combination of the two)). If we get more than we >> can accommodate, we'll vote... but I don't think we will (take that as >> a challenge to propose lots of interesting preconference sessions). >> Like last year, attendees will pay $12.50 for a half day or $25 for >> the whole day. The preconference space will be in the hotel so we'll >> have wireless available. If you have a preconference idea, send it to >> this list, to me, or to the code4libcon planning list. We'll put them >> up on the wiki once we start receiving them. Some possible ideas? A >> Drupal in libraries session? LOD part two? An OCLC webservices >> hackathon? Send the proposals along... >> >> Thanks, >> Kevin