Thanks Shad! I'm really excited to be an Apache Lucene.NET committer. I have wanted to get involved with the open source community for some time and then I discovered Lucene.NET. Wow! Lucene.NET is such an amazing search library. The more I used it the more I felt the pull to get involved in the Lucene.NET community.
I've been fond of computers and writing software since I bought my first computer, a Commodore 64, many years ago. I received my Computer Science Degree at the University of Alaska Fairbanks which was the main campus of the statewide system where I grew up. Out of University I started my first Software company in 1988 (dating myself I know), and several months later my company became one of the first 1000 Apple Certified Developers. Kinda fun. I'm not sure if that makes me old or somewhat experienced or BOTH I guess. I've been doing .NET development since 2001 when it was in beta and I started working with ASP.NET Core at release candidate 2 stage. I love C#, vue.js and .NET Core. All are very well thought out technologies and a pleasure to work with. I mostly do web development (full stack) but do some desktop dev as well. All my life I've been as interested in business as software development (entrepreneur!) and so I tend to work at the intersection of business and technology which is why the Web is such a good fit for me. I'm particularly interested in marketing, strategy and sustainability and have held significant positions leading companies and business units. I earned my MBA for the Univ. of NC and hope to leverage my marketing background as well as my technical skills for the benefit of Lucene.NET. Finally, I'd like to call out a big THANK YOU to Shad Storhaug. He has been very patient and has taught me so much as I've learned how to contribute the Apache way. His thoroughness and thoughtfulness make him an ideal leader and he is great to work with. I am grateful for his help and leadership and I look forward to participating as an official committer for this project. No doubt I have tons more to learn and I look forward to the journey. Cheers! -Ron Clabo StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/story/1415614 Twitter (dev): https://twitter.com/dotnetcore (yah, gotta be an early adopter, and like marketing, to get a twitter handle like this one :-) Twitter (entrepreneurship): https://twitter.com/ronclabo -----Original Message----- From: Shad Storhaug [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2021 3:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Welcome Ron Clabo as Lucene.NET committer The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Lucene.NET has invited Ron Clabo to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted. Ron has contributed to a wide range of areas from code cleanup to reviewing tests to analyzing and working out the Grouping module to updating the documentation and website. He rises to the challenge of whatever task he sets his mind to. Not to mention, he jumps in and tries to help other users who have questions and/or problems. Ron, the Lucene tradition is that new committers introduce themselves with a short bio. Congratulations and welcome!
