Dear Prasanth, Welcome to the communities! :)
You may want to check out our JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH on both projects. Feel free to check those out for things to work on, and also feel free to pipe up on discussions that you are interested in. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Prashant Shekar <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, August 28, 2014 6:35 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Hi! >Hi, > > >I am Prasanth Iyer - a graduate student in Computer Science at the >University of Southern California. I am currently taking a course - >Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines with Prof. Chris Mattmann >where I hope to learn about some of the > technologies and tools that power today's search engines. > >Tika and Nutch are two of the technologies that we are learning about and >I would love to contribute to it. I love creating software and I am >passionate about open-source technology given that I have always been a >huge benefactor from it. > >My prior experience with information retrieval was as part of a research >project to find the centers of influence of a Twitter dataset where we >tweaked Google's PageRank algorithm to find the most influential people >in a Twitter dataset with 41.7 million users > and 1.47 billion relationships. Besides this, I have also done an >internship at eBay on a project which used data analytics to achieve >automatic monitoring of eBay's services. > > >I would love to contribute to both Tika and Nutch as part of the research >I plan to do with Prof. Mattmann this semester. > >Thanks, > >Prasanth Iyer
