Congrats Eric! On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 9:57 AM Eric Pugh <ep...@opensourceconnections.com> wrote:
> 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) 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 <shalinman...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Congratulations and welcome Eric! > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 5:51 PM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> 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: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. > > > _______________________ > *Eric Pugh **| *Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 > | 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. > >
