I'd love to see that quilt! ~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 1:33 PM Tomás Fernández Löbbe <tomasflo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >>> >>>