Welcome Nick! From: dev@lucene.apache.org At: Oct 20 2015 18:40:25 To: luc...@mikemccandless.com Cc: dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Welcome Nick Knize as Lucene/Solr committer
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
