Re: New Lucene PMC Chair: Chris Hegarty

[Bruno Roustant]

Thank you Chris, congrats!
And of course thank you Greg for the past year!

Le sam. 20 janv. 2024 à 01:15, Greg Miller  a écrit :

> Hello Lucene developers-
>
> I wanted to let you know that the Lucene PMC has elected a new Chair—Chris
> Hegarty—and the board has approved the appointment. It's been an honor to
> fill this role for the past year, but it's time to pass the torch to
> someone new.
>
> Chris- thank you for stepping up for this role and congratulations!
>
> Cheers,
> -Greg
>

Re: Welcome Stefan Vodita as Lucene committter

[Bruno Roustant]

Congrats Stefan!

Le sam. 20 janv. 2024 à 08:26, Michael Wechner 
a écrit :

> Hi Stefan, thank you very much for your contributions and helping to
> improve Lucene!
>
> All the best
>
> Michael
>
> Am 19.01.24 um 20:03 schrieb Stefan Vodita:
>
> Thank you all! It's an honor to join the project as a committer.
>
> I'm originally from a small town in southern Romania
> , so I'm really looking
> forward to seeing #12172 
> resolved, since both the characters in question (ș, ț)
> are supposed to show up in my name.
>
> In university , I had
> professors who contributed to open software 
> 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
> . 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
> . Knowing books also happens
> to be useful
> for thinking up faceting examples
> ,
> 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
>>
>
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