Congratulations Marcus! On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 12:48 PM Gus Heck <gus.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations and Welcome! > > On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 10:54 AM Mikhail Khludnev <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Welcome, Marcus! > > > > On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 7:31 AM Marcus Eagan <marcusea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Thanks everyone! > > > > > > Bio TL;DR > > > - I dream and build. > > > - My vocational interests are ease of use, developer productivity, > > machine > > > learning, and doing whichever important tasks others do not want to do. > > > - my charitable interests are open source, preserving schools, and > > economic > > > empowerment > > > - I like classical jazz, and reading books about history and physics > > > > > > I'll be short — not my strength, and clear — another weakness. Thank > you > > > for the invitation. I opened my first PR on the Lucene/Solr repo in > 2018 > > to > > > learn more about search engines by working on them. For years before > > that, > > > I'd been benefiting from this project far more than I will ever give to > > it. > > > Even today, when the news is filled with promises of what a new breed > of > > > Information Retrieval technology might bring, the importance of the > work > > > this team and the extended community of users has done over the years > > > cannot be overstated. For your and my purposes, it also cannot slow > down. > > > > > > This free-to-own, open source technology powers a lot of the academic > > > research. It facilitates the discovery of new and competing > technologies, > > > protects civilians from sophisticated attacks, manages most of the > > world's > > > supply chains, feeds us, brings the movie theater to our smart TVs, and > > is > > > critical to global financial markets. From the memeberg terminal in > > > Reddit's r/wallstreetbets, to over 2,000 clusters at Bloomberg > > > < > > > > > > https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/open-source-bloomberg-solr-work-enhance-enterprise-search/ > > > >, > > > people sometimes forget how important their dayjob is because what is > > > routine can feel mundane. Every one of you and all our users matter. > > > > > > I promise to uphold my duty as a committer to you all and to the > critical > > > infrastructure we steward in all corners of society. I love that the > > > community transcends corporate interest, geopolitical unrest, pandemic > > > confusion, gripping inequity, and even the computer code that we are > > > chartered to maintain. > > > > > > This organization understands a salient point that I, myself, so often > > > forget: we are all in this together. > > > > > > Community over code, > > > > > > - Marcus > > > Apache Solr Committer > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 1:23 PM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Congrats and welcome, Marcus! > > > > > > > > Jan > > > > > > > > > 1. apr. 2023 kl. 09:19 skrev Ishan Chattopadhyaya < > > > > ichattopadhy...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > I'm pleased to announce that Marcus Eagan has accepted the PMC's > > > > > invitation to become a committer. > > > > > > > > > > Marcus, the tradition is that new committers introduce themselves > > with > > > a > > > > > brief bio. > > > > > > > > > > Congratulations and welcome! > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Marcus Eagan > > > > > > -- > > > Marcus Eagan > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sincerely yours > > Mikhail Khludnev > > https://t.me/MUST_SEARCH > > A caveat: Cyrillic! > > > > > -- > http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) > http://www.the111shift.com (play) >
