Welcome, Nick!
We were so close last week while many of us were at the Lucene Revolution in
Austin, TX. You got mentioned and big kudos during David Smiley’s geo talk -
it’s great to have you aboard.
Erik
> On Oct 20, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Nicholas Knize <nkn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the honor to join such a talented group!
>
> Brief Bio: I started as a Meteorology major in undergrad. After the
> Meteorology program bored me with colored pencils and paper maps (but rocking
> a FORTRAN class) I switched to Computer Science. I received a CS Bachelor's
> and Master's focused on Computer Vision. Interestingly I was first exposed to
> Lucene/Solr in 2006 while working on a proprietary Remote Geospatial Imaging
> System. After a "fun" detour through the land of Oracle Spatial integration
> and MongoDB and Accumulo core development I finished a PhD in GIS focused on
> high dimension spatial Indexing. With sights set on working with the open
> source community I joined Elasticsearch 1 year ago this November which brings
> me here. I currently live in Dallas, TX with my Wife, 3 Kids, and a Dog and
> when my face is not behind a monitor I plant it either behind a drum kit, on
> a hockey rink, or in the park with the family.
>
> I look forward to continuing to virtually work with many of you and hope to
> meet many at conferences and meetups.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> - Nick
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Michael McCandless
> <luc...@mikemccandless.com <mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com>> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce that Nick Knize has accepted the PMC's
> invitation to become a committer.
>
> Nick, it's tradition that you introduce yourself with a brief bio /
> origin story, explaining how you arrived here.
>
> Your handle "nknize" has already added to the “lucene" LDAP group, so
> you now have commit privileges.
>
> Please celebrate this rite of passage, and confirm that the right
> karma has in fact enabled, by embarking on the challenge of adding
> yourself to the committers section of the Who We Are page on the
> website: http://lucene.apache.org/whoweare.html
> <http://lucene.apache.org/whoweare.html> (use the ASF CMS
> bookmarklet
> at the bottom of the page here: https://cms.apache.org/#bookmark
> <https://cms.apache.org/#bookmark> -
> more info here http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html
> <http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html>).
>
> Congratulations and welcome!
>
> Mike McCandless
>
> http://blog.mikemccandless.com <http://blog.mikemccandless.com/>
>
