Re: Welcome Simon Cooper as Lucene committer

Welcome Simon!!

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM Gus Heck <[email protected]> wrote:

> Congratulations, Welcome
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM Michael Froh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations and welcome, Simon!
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM Vigya Sharma <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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