Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I'm very excited and honored to join the Lucene / Solr committer team.
I'm a software engineer living in downtown New York City. Lucene first caught my attention in 2001 while working for a scientific publisher that was evaluating search engines. Even in those early days Lucene was beating the commercial engines in our performance and relevance tests. I lobbied hard for Lucene, but in the end was overruled. So I snuck Lucene into my work whenever I could, often using it as a key/ value store. It's amazing now to see how far Lucene / Solr have come and I'm looking forward to contributing to the project. Aside from programming, I'm a science fiction fan and enjoy learning about eastern philosophy. I'm currently engaged to my girlfriend Lauren who lives with me in Battery Park City. Joel On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome, Joel! I have to say, Joel is one of my all-time favorite people > in the world. We are very fortunate to have him here. > > Erik > > On Oct 3, 2013, at 1:24 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The Lucene PMC is happy to welcome Joel Bernstein as a committer on the > Lucene and Solr project. Joel has been working on a number of issues on > the project and we look forward to his continued contributions going > forward. > > > > Welcome aboard, Joel! > > > > -Grant > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- Joel Bernstein Professional Services LucidWorks
