Welcome Eric! On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:12 AM Houston Putman <houstonput...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congrats Eric! > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 9:57 AM Eric Pugh <ep...@opensourceconnections.com> > wrote: > >> Thank you everyone! I’ll keep it short, otherwise this will be a very >> long email… ;-). >> >> I was first introduced to Solr and Lucene by Erik Hatcher, and today I >> wonder what my life would be like if he hadn’t taken the time to show me >> some cool code he was working on and explained to me the way to change the >> world was through open source contributions! >> >> I co-founded OpenSource Connections (http://o19s.com) along with Scott >> Stults and Jason Hull in 2005. We found our niche in Solr consulting after >> I went to the first LuceneRevolution and got inspired (complete with Jerry >> Maguire style manifesto shared with the company). Through consulting, I get >> to help onboard organizations into the Solr community - a thriving, healthy >> ASF is very near & dear to my heart. >> >> I’ve been around this community for a long time, with my first JIRA being >> three digits: SOLR-284. Today, I’m still contributing to Apache Tika. I’ve >> gotten to meet and spend some significant time with Tim Allison from that >> project and learned a LOT about text! >> >> I was in the right place at the right time and was able to join David >> Smiley as co-author on the first Solr book, we went on and did a total of >> three editions of that book. Phew! >> >> Once I got to sit on stage as a judge for Stump the Chump, it was Erick, >> Erik, and Eric ;-) >> >> After doing Solr for a good while, I got lucky and met Doug Turnbull on >> the sidewalk one day because he had on a t-shirt that said “My code doesn’t >> have bugs, it has unexpected features”. Couple of years later he and >> fellow colleague John Berryman published Relevant Search and today I’m >> working in the fascinating intersection of people, Search, and Data Science >> helping build smarter search experiences as a Relevance Strategist. I'm >> excited about bringing relevance use cases 'down to earth'. I also steward >> OSC's contributions to the open source tool Quepid to help fulfill that >> goal. >> >> Oh, and I’ve got a stack of LuceneRevolution and related conference >> t-shirts that my mother turned into a fantastic quilt ;-). >> >> Eric >> >> >> >> On Apr 6, 2020, at 9:39 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <shalinman...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Congratulations and welcome Eric! >> >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 5:51 PM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Please join me in welcoming Eric Pugh as the latest Lucene/Solr >>> committer! >>> >>> Eric has been part of the Solr community for over a decade, as a code >>> contributor, book author, company founder, blogger and mailing list >>> contributor! We look forward to his future contributions! >>> >>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself >>> with a brief bio, Eric. >>> >>> Jan Høydahl >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Shalin Shekhar Mangar. >> >> >> _______________________ >> *Eric Pugh **| *Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 >> | http://www.opensourceconnections.com | My Free/Busy >> <http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal> >> Co-Author: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, 3rd Ed >> <https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-enterprise-search-server-third-edition-raw> >> This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be >> Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless >> of whether attachments are marked as such. >> >>
