Hi Everyone! Happy to be one of the committers for Tika!
My name is Nicholas DiPiazza - I reside in Madison, Wisconsin USA. My name is Sicilian in origin, and I look Italian... but I'm actually 50% Irish! I started doing Tika contributions through my work at Lucidworks ( https://lucidworks.com) building connectors that grab content from various data sources such as SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, Alfresco, etc., parsing it using Apache Tika, and eventually indexing it into Solr. I primarily do back-end Java work but also do work in various languages and frameworks. Most recently I have been doing a lot in Scala and Spark. I have been having a lot of fun making Tika work at a massive scale inside Kube containers! I scraped together a homemade version of the Tika Pipes project in Tika 1.x to meet some needs I had, and then later collaborated with Tim Allison to get this into Tika 2.x. Super stoked to get this in a major version of Tika. Other stuff about me: I play drums for a metal band called Wake and Prevail https://www.reverbnation.com/wakeandprevail although the Covid situation has put music on hold indefinitely, I still jam to albums in my basement regularly. I play Starcraft 2 in my spare time, but am stuck in the Diamond League as I don't want to hurt my fingers/wrists getting my APM any higher. I prefer Ubuntu, Windows then Mac in that order. My Mac is actually in a box back from when I moved and I have managed not to need it for several months now. Looking forward to doing even more contributions throughout the next couple years, in particular improving our DWG support and improving the OneNote parsing. And hoping to create Tika Pipes tutorials hopefully to help get lots of people using that feature so we can get lots of contributions to improve it. Thanks! -Nichiolas On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 1:18 PM Tim Allison <talli...@apache.org> wrote: > The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Tika > has invited Nicholas DiPiazza to become a committer and we are pleased > to announce that he has accepted. > > Nicholas has made numerous contributions including the OneNoteParser, > and, more recently, the Solr pipes modules. We look forward to continued > collaboration to make Tika more robust and scaleable. > > Being a committer enables easier contribution to the > project since there is no need to go via the patch > submission process. This should enable better productivity. > Being a PMC member enables assistance with the management > and to guide the direction of the project. > > Welcome aboard, Nicholas! Please share a bit about yourself. > > Cheers, > > Tim >
