Welcome Nick! We’re very fortunate to have your spatial expertise. ~ David
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:40 PM Nicholas Knize <nkn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the honor to join such a talented group! > > Brief Bio: I started as a Meteorology major in undergrad. After the > Meteorology program bored me with colored pencils and paper maps (but > rocking a FORTRAN class) I switched to Computer Science. I received a CS > Bachelor's and Master's focused on Computer Vision. Interestingly I was > first exposed to Lucene/Solr in 2006 while working on a proprietary Remote > Geospatial Imaging System. After a "fun" detour through the land of Oracle > Spatial integration and MongoDB and Accumulo core development I finished a > PhD in GIS focused on high dimension spatial Indexing. With sights set on > working with the open source community I joined Elasticsearch 1 year ago > this November which brings me here. I currently live in Dallas, TX with my > Wife, 3 Kids, and a Dog and when my face is not behind a monitor I plant it > either behind a drum kit, on a hockey rink, or in the park with the family. > > I look forward to continuing to virtually work with many of you and hope > to meet many at conferences and meetups. > > Thanks again! > > - Nick > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Michael McCandless < > luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > >> I'm pleased to announce that Nick Knize has accepted the PMC's >> invitation to become a committer. >> >> Nick, it's tradition that you introduce yourself with a brief bio / >> origin story, explaining how you arrived here. >> >> Your handle "nknize" has already added to the “lucene" LDAP group, so >> you now have commit privileges. >> >> Please celebrate this rite of passage, and confirm that the right >> karma has in fact enabled, by embarking on the challenge of adding >> yourself to the committers section of the Who We Are page on the >> website: http://lucene.apache.org/whoweare.html (use the ASF CMS >> bookmarklet >> at the bottom of the page here: https://cms.apache.org/#bookmark - >> more info here http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html). >> >> Congratulations and welcome! >> >> Mike McCandless >> >> http://blog.mikemccandless.com >> > -- Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com
