Any or all of the above, and more.
OTOH, how many people are there out there who want to become Solr
consultants, but aren't already either doing it or at least already in the
process of coming up to speed or maybe just not cut out for it?
But then there are the kids in school. Maybe we need to get more professors
interested in Solr (or do they prefer Elasticsearch?!) and assigning
projects? And maybe the problem is that a lot of the need is in departments
outside of CS, but Solr (the people with actual data needs) is just too...
"difficult"... for a lot of non-CS students to "casually pick up".
I sense the difficulty is that Solr is too much of a complex "toolkit"
rather than a packaged product. For example, the recent inquiry related to
queries for compound and split terms - it's not automatic and OOB for Solr,
and without an obvious and simple solution. Lots of things are like that in
Solr.
-- Jack Krupansky
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandre Rafalovitch
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 4:52 AM
To: solr-user
Subject: Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Well, if we do it in England, we could hire out a castle, I bet. :-) I
am flexible on my "holiday" locations. And probably easier to do the
first one in English.
We can continue this on direct email, on the LinkedIn group (perfect
place probably) and/or on the margins of the Solr Revolution. Target
next spring/summer for the week-long event, work backwards from there.
Talk to http://www.techstars.com/program/locations/london/ to
specifically target the startups, etc....
Regards,
Alex.
Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov
Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart
Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Charlie Hull <char...@flax.co.uk> wrote:
On 24/07/2014 01:54, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com>
wrote:
All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy.
Sounds like an opportunity for somebody to put together a training
hacker camp, similar to https://hackerbeach.org/ . Cross-train
consultants in Solr, immediately increase their value.
We're definitely interested in the idea of 'growing' more Solr
consultants,
and eventually committers. Beaches and mountains are good too :) I think
the
skill shortage is a huge problem for the open source search world.
Charlie
