Welcome Simon! On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 13:50, Simon Cooper <simon.coo...@elastic.co.invalid> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > Many thanks for the invite! I'm delighted to accept, and look forward to > future Lucene development. > > I live in Cambridge, UK, and work as a software engineer, mostly in Java > and C#. My career has been working for various Cambridge-based software > companies over the past 20 years, more recently at a Fintech startup where > I developed their distributed processing engine. I joined Elastic ~3 years > ago, and a few months ago started working on vector search, which lead me > to Lucene. Having worked only for private companies for my career, I've > always wanted to work on a full OSS project, and so I've been eagerly > delving into Lucene and all that it can do. > > Outside work my main hobbies are playing music (playing the 'cello as a > folk and session musician) and computer gaming, when my young family spares > the time of course. > > SimonC > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 12:38, Michael McCandless < > luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > >> Welcome! >> >> Mike McCandless >> >> http://blog.mikemccandless.com >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM Alan Woodward <romseyg...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Congratulations and welcome! We need to start a Cambridge committers >>> group :) >>> >>> - Alan >>> >>> > On 20 Jun 2025, at 08:06, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > Hello everyone, >>> > >>> > I'm pleased to announce that Simon Cooper has accepted the PMC's >>> invitation to become a committer! >>> > >>> > Simon, it is a tradition that new committers introduce themselves with >>> a brief bio. >>> > >>> > Thank you for your contributions and welcome to the community! >>> > >>> > Dawid >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >>> >>>
