Welcome Nick! 2015-10-22 16:48 GMT+02:00 Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com>:
> Congratulations on joining the Lucene team! > > Karl > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Welcome, Nick! >> >> We were so close last week while many of us were at the Lucene Revolution >> in Austin, TX. You got mentioned and big kudos during David Smiley’s geo >> talk - it’s great to have you aboard. >> >> Erik >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 20, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Nicholas Knize <nkn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the honor to join such a talented group! >> >> Brief Bio: I started as a Meteorology major in undergrad. After the >> Meteorology program bored me with colored pencils and paper maps (but >> rocking a FORTRAN class) I switched to Computer Science. I received a CS >> Bachelor's and Master's focused on Computer Vision. Interestingly I was >> first exposed to Lucene/Solr in 2006 while working on a proprietary Remote >> Geospatial Imaging System. After a "fun" detour through the land of Oracle >> Spatial integration and MongoDB and Accumulo core development I finished a >> PhD in GIS focused on high dimension spatial Indexing. With sights set on >> working with the open source community I joined Elasticsearch 1 year ago >> this November which brings me here. I currently live in Dallas, TX with my >> Wife, 3 Kids, and a Dog and when my face is not behind a monitor I plant it >> either behind a drum kit, on a hockey rink, or in the park with the family. >> >> I look forward to continuing to virtually work with many of you and hope >> to meet many at conferences and meetups. >> >> Thanks again! >> >> - Nick >> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Michael McCandless < >> luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm pleased to announce that Nick Knize has accepted the PMC's >>> invitation to become a committer. >>> >>> Nick, it's tradition that you introduce yourself with a brief bio / >>> origin story, explaining how you arrived here. >>> >>> Your handle "nknize" has already added to the “lucene" LDAP group, so >>> you now have commit privileges. >>> >>> Please celebrate this rite of passage, and confirm that the right >>> karma has in fact enabled, by embarking on the challenge of adding >>> yourself to the committers section of the Who We Are page on the >>> website: http://lucene.apache.org/whoweare.html (use the ASF CMS >>> bookmarklet >>> at the bottom of the page here: https://cms.apache.org/#bookmark - >>> more info here http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html). >>> >>> Congratulations and welcome! >>> >>> Mike McCandless >>> >>> http://blog.mikemccandless.com >>> >> >> >> > -- Josep Ferrer Boix VP of Engineering www.wallapop.com <http://www.wallapop.com/> Casp, 162 2a planta 08013 Barcelona +34 936 760 510
