Congrats and welcome, Eric! :D On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:44 AM Gus Heck <gus.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations! :) Welcome > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:03 PM Doug Turnbull < > dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com> wrote: > >> Eric, great work! Congrats! >> >> Yes we need to see a pic of that quilt... ;) >> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 4:40 PM Mikhail Khludnev <m...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Welcome, Eric. >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 4:57 PM 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. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sincerely yours >>> Mikhail Khludnev >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Doug Turnbull **| CTO* | OpenSource Connections >> <http://opensourceconnections.com>, LLC | 240.476.9983 >> Author: Relevant Search <http://manning.com/turnbull>; Contributor: *AI >> Powered Search <http://aipoweredsearch.com>* >> 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. >> > > > -- > http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) > http://www.the111shift.com (play) >
