Congratulations Simon, welcome! On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome, Simon! > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM Mikhail Khludnev <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Welcome Simon! > > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM Simon Cooper > > <simon.coo...@elastic.co.invalid> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> Many thanks for the invite! I'm delighted to accept, and look forward > to future Lucene development. > >> > >> I live in Cambridge, UK, and work as a software engineer, mostly in > Java and C#. My career has been working for various Cambridge-based > software companies over the past 20 years, more recently at a Fintech > startup where I developed their distributed processing engine. I joined > Elastic ~3 years ago, and a few months ago started working on vector > search, which lead me to Lucene. Having worked only for private companies > for my career, I've always wanted to work on a full OSS project, and so > I've been eagerly delving into Lucene and all that it can do. > >> > >> Outside work my main hobbies are playing music (playing the 'cello as a > folk and session musician) and computer gaming, when my young family spares > the time of course. > >> > >> SimonC > >> > >> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 12:38, Michael McCandless < > luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Welcome! > >>> > >>> Mike McCandless > >>> > >>> http://blog.mikemccandless.com > >>> > >>> > >>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM Alan Woodward <romseyg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Congratulations and welcome! We need to start a Cambridge committers > group :) > >>>> > >>>> - Alan > >>>> > >>>> > On 20 Jun 2025, at 08:06, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > Hello everyone, > >>>> > > >>>> > I'm pleased to announce that Simon Cooper has accepted the PMC's > invitation to become a committer! > >>>> > > >>>> > Simon, it is a tradition that new committers introduce themselves > with a brief bio. > >>>> > > >>>> > Thank you for your contributions and welcome to the community! > >>>> > > >>>> > Dawid > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >>>> > > > > > > -- > > Sincerely yours > > Mikhail Khludnev > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
