Re: Welcome Simon Cooper as Lucene committer

Congratulations Simon, welcome!

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM Michael Sokolov <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> > --
> > Sincerely yours
> > Mikhail Khludnev
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