Thanks a lot guys for inviting me and for the wishes. I am a graduate student in Virginia Tech University doing my Masters in Computer Science. I have been using Apache Nutch for the last one year as part of my assistantship with our University Library.
The Digital Libraries and Archives division of our libraries was using Google Mini Search Engine for their website that hosts 600k files but Google Mini was no longer supported and we want to try building Search Engine using Open Source technologies. That is when i started my journey with Nutch and we were able to successfully achieve our Goals using Nutch and Solr. The library was pleased with the project and they are more interested now to work with Open Source software whenever possible. I liked working with Nutch community and it has been a great learning experience for me. I would like to learn and contribute back even after my graduation. Few things that I have in my mind right now other than committing patches are to improve our documentation (Wiki), helping users to my best and also to start the Apache Wicket UI work soon for 2.x in Nutch. Regards, Kiran. On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Tejas Patil <[email protected]>wrote: > Welcome aboard Kiran :) > > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 12:56 PM, lewis john mcgibbney > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Over the last while we have been aware of Kiran's ongoing contribution to >> the Nutch community. >> It is with great pleasure that we invite Kiran to join the Nutch PMC and >> also take up Committer role. >> @Kiran, please feel free to say a bit about yourself and introduce what >> brought you to Apache Nutch. >> Have a great weekend. >> Best >> Lewis > > > -- Kiran Chitturi
