Welcome on board, Nicholas. Great work! Best regards, Luis Filipe Nassif
Em qui., 3 de jun. de 2021 às 16:00, Nicholas DiPiazza < nicholas.dipia...@gmail.com> escreveu: > Hi Everyone! > > Happy to be one of the committers for Tika! > > My name is Nicholas DiPiazza - I reside in Madison, Wisconsin USA. My name > is Sicilian in origin, and I look Italian... but I'm actually 50% Irish! > > I started doing Tika contributions through my work at Lucidworks ( > https://lucidworks.com) building connectors that grab content from various > data sources such as SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, Alfresco, etc., > parsing it using Apache Tika, and eventually indexing it into Solr. > > I primarily do back-end Java work but also do work in various languages and > frameworks. Most recently I have been doing a lot in Scala and Spark. > > I have been having a lot of fun making Tika work at a massive scale inside > Kube containers! I scraped together a homemade version of the Tika Pipes > project in Tika 1.x to meet some needs I had, and then later collaborated > with Tim Allison to get this into Tika 2.x. Super stoked to get this in a > major version of Tika. > > Other stuff about me: > > I play drums for a metal band called Wake and Prevail > https://www.reverbnation.com/wakeandprevail although the Covid situation > has put music on hold indefinitely, I still jam to albums in my basement > regularly. > > I play Starcraft 2 in my spare time, but am stuck in the Diamond League as > I don't want to hurt my fingers/wrists getting my APM any higher. > > I prefer Ubuntu, Windows then Mac in that order. My Mac is actually in a > box back from when I moved and I have managed not to need it for several > months now. > > > Looking forward to doing even more contributions throughout the next couple > years, in particular improving our DWG support and improving the OneNote > parsing. And hoping to create Tika Pipes tutorials hopefully to help get > lots of people using that feature so we can get lots of contributions to > improve it. > > Thanks! > -Nichiolas > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 1:18 PM Tim Allison <talli...@apache.org> wrote: > > > The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Tika > > has invited Nicholas DiPiazza to become a committer and we are pleased > > to announce that he has accepted. > > > > Nicholas has made numerous contributions including the OneNoteParser, > > and, more recently, the Solr pipes modules. We look forward to continued > > collaboration to make Tika more robust and scaleable. > > > > Being a committer enables easier contribution to the > > project since there is no need to go via the patch > > submission process. This should enable better productivity. > > Being a PMC member enables assistance with the management > > and to guide the direction of the project. > > > > Welcome aboard, Nicholas! Please share a bit about yourself. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Tim > > >
