Come to the hometown of some Solr gurus like Eric Pugh, Erik Hatcher, and Doug Turnbull for our search relevance conference :)
Check out the agenda. Lots of good Solr talks from people doing innovative work at places like Wikimedia Foundation, Elsevier, Snagajob, LexisNexis, Lucidworks, Elastic and others. Hope to see you there https://opensourceconnections.com/events/haystack/ Haystack is a pretty affordable conference $75! We're just covering our costs, and we want to make this as open as possible. And you can stay for a cool machine learning conference https://tomtomfest.com/machine-learning/ Best -- CTO, OpenSource Connections Author, Relevant Search http://o19s.com/doug