Welcome, Stefan! Good choice, btw! On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 10:03 PM Stefan Vodita <stefan.vod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you all! It's an honor to join the project as a committer. > > I'm originally from a small town in southern Romania > <https://maps.app.goo.gl/fz3Ju683kF91MmbT7>, so I'm really looking > forward to seeing #12172 <https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/12172> > resolved, since both the characters in question (ș, ț) > are supposed to show up in my name. > > In university <https://maps.app.goo.gl/D93VnxFEeRrZFHJs9>, I had > professors who contributed to open software <https://github.com/unikraft> > and I was > lucky enough to be given a taste of the open source world. I had become a > teaching assistant for a few of the courses (Data Structures, Control > Theory), > and it had crossed my mind to stay at the university. Then I got an offer > to > come work at Amazon, in Ireland > <https://maps.app.goo.gl/25nSmtv87hZ2mcKv5>. They gave me a list of teams > I could join that > only had the names of the teams - I thought Search Engine Tech sounded the > coolest. I was right! That's how I first learned about Lucene and started > working with/on it. It's a privilege, Lucene is an amazing piece of > software and > I'm proud to be contributing. > > Outside programming, I like history and philosophy. I've been a voracious > reader basically since I learned how to read. Recently, I've been going > down > a spiral of increasingly obscure books, but nothing has topped > Dostoevsky's > classic, The Brothers Karamazov > <https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/4934>. Knowing books also happens > to be useful > for thinking up faceting examples > <https://communityovercode.org/past-sessions/community-over-code-na-2023/#SH004>, > so that's a plus. > When I was in middle-school, I half-willingly went through 4 years of > classical > guitar training and was left with a life-long desire to be a good musician > despite my inconsistent practice habits. Practice will have to wait until I > finish up the next PR - looking forward to many more in the future! > > Cheers, > Stefan > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 15:56, Michael McCandless < > luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > >> Hi Team, >> >> I'm pleased to announce that Stefan Vodita has accepted the Lucene PMC's >> invitation to become a committer! >> >> Stefan, the tradition is that new committers introduce themselves with a >> brief bio. >> >> Congratulations, welcome, and thank you for all your improvements to >> Lucene and our community, >> >> Mike McCandless >> >> http://blog.mikemccandless.com >> > -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev
