Re: Welcome Simon Cooper as Lucene committer
Michael Sokolov <[email protected]>
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Welcome, Simon! On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM Mikhail Khludnev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Welcome Simon! > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM Simon Cooper <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Welcome! >>> >>> Mike McCandless >>> >>> http://blog.mikemccandless.com >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Congratulations and welcome! We need to start a Cambridge committers group :) >>>> >>>> - Alan >>>> >>>> > On 20 Jun 2025, at 08:06, Dawid Weiss <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> > > > -- > Sincerely yours > Mikhail Khludnev