Congratulations and welcome, Simon! On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM Vigya Sharma <vigya.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations Simon, welcome! > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Welcome, Simon! >> >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM Mikhail Khludnev <m...@apache.org> wrote: >> > >> > Welcome Simon! >> > >> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM 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 >> >>>> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Sincerely yours >> > Mikhail Khludnev >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >>
