Thank you everyone! I’ll keep it short, otherwise this will be a very long email… ;-).
I was first introduced to Solr and Lucene by Erik Hatcher, and today I wonder what my life would be like if he hadn’t taken the time to show me some cool code he was working on and explained to me the way to change the world was through open source contributions! I co-founded OpenSource Connections (http://o19s.com <http://o19s.com/>) along with Scott Stults and Jason Hull in 2005. We found our niche in Solr consulting after I went to the first LuceneRevolution and got inspired (complete with Jerry Maguire style manifesto shared with the company). Through consulting, I get to help onboard organizations into the Solr community - a thriving, healthy ASF is very near & dear to my heart. I’ve been around this community for a long time, with my first JIRA being three digits: SOLR-284. Today, I’m still contributing to Apache Tika. I’ve gotten to meet and spend some significant time with Tim Allison from that project and learned a LOT about text! I was in the right place at the right time and was able to join David Smiley as co-author on the first Solr book, we went on and did a total of three editions of that book. Phew! Once I got to sit on stage as a judge for Stump the Chump, it was Erick, Erik, and Eric ;-) After doing Solr for a good while, I got lucky and met Doug Turnbull on the sidewalk one day because he had on a t-shirt that said “My code doesn’t have bugs, it has unexpected features”. Couple of years later he and fellow colleague John Berryman published Relevant Search and today I’m working in the fascinating intersection of people, Search, and Data Science helping build smarter search experiences as a Relevance Strategist. I'm excited about bringing relevance use cases 'down to earth'. I also steward OSC's contributions to the open source tool Quepid to help fulfill that goal. Oh, and I’ve got a stack of LuceneRevolution and related conference t-shirts that my mother turned into a fantastic quilt ;-). Eric > On Apr 6, 2020, at 9:39 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Congratulations and welcome Eric! > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 5:51 PM Jan Høydahl <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi all, > > Please join me in welcoming Eric Pugh as the latest Lucene/Solr committer! > > Eric has been part of the Solr community for over a decade, as a code > contributor, book author, company founder, blogger and mailing list > contributor! We look forward to his future contributions! > > Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself with a > brief bio, Eric. > > Jan Høydahl > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. _______________________ Eric Pugh | Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | http://www.opensourceconnections.com <http://www.opensourceconnections.com/> | My Free/Busy <http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal> Co-Author: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, 3rd Ed <https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-enterprise-search-server-third-edition-raw> This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of whether attachments are marked as such.
