Apache Solr/Lucene Meetup comes to Raleigh/Durham North Carolina

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
18:00

Announcing the inaugural meeting of the RTP Apache Solr/Lucene Meetup, sponsored by Lucid Imagination and Lulu Press.

Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform for the Research Triangle Park Area of Raleigh, Durham and neighboring environs of North Carolina. Mark your calendars for September 21, 2010. Agenda:

6:00 – 6:30 Meet and Greet
7:00 – 7:15 Discussion about Lulu

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Webinar: From RDBMS to Apache Solr/Lucene – Open Source Search for database developers

Wednesday, 8 September 2010
09:00 to 10:00

September 8, 2010
09:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT, 16:00 GMT
Hosted by Bitpipe.com and sponsored by Lucid Imagination

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In order to deliver a compelling, customized search experience, a broad span of leading organizations are turning to search solutions that include full-text search capabilities.

In this webcast, author and database/XML expert Nicholas Chase contrasts the conventional SQL-driven programming approach with the simpler, more streamlined approaches available…

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Next Triangle HUG Meeting: Hadoop with Lucene and Solr

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
13:00

Just a quick announcement that I will be speaking on using Hadoop with Lucene and Solr at the next Triangle Hadoop Users Group on Sept. 14.  So, if you are in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area on that night, please stop in.  For more information and to RSVP, see Triangle Hadoop Users Group.

Cheers,

Grant

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Executive Search Briefing, São Paulo, Brazil, 24 August 2010

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
15:30 to 18:30

Lucid Imagination Authorized Partner Primeware SA presents an Executive Search Briefing, in São Paulo, 24 August 2010, 1930 local time, featuring Lucid Imagination CEO Eric Gries.

Join this exclusive event by RSVP only, by 18 August 2010.

Click here for details and registration.

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UK Open Source — Ixxus Partner Webcast: Introduction to Solr with Grant Ingersoll

Thursday, 29 July 2010
08:30 to 09:30
08:30 to 09:30

As you may know, Ixxus, the Platinum partner for Alfresco open source enterprise content management in the UK, has recently joined the Lucid Imagination Partner’s program.

The drive to open source in content management is part of a broader trend. More and more organizations are taking ownership of their own destiny when it comes to achieving competitive advantage with their own content. As the set of commercial vendors in…

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Partner Webcast: Document Filters, Commercial and Open Source

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
10:00 to 10:30

Document filters often serve as a key first step in driving search-enabled applications. Some use cases are best addressed with open source such as Tika and Solr-CELL; in other cases, the best solution is license this technology from ISYS Search Software, a Lucid Imagination Partner. ISYS is one of only three commercial providers of this technology.

To offer a better understanding of document filters and the commercial and open-source options available,…

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Webinar: Cutting Search Chaos – Faster Findability for Lucene/Solr

Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Join us for a free webinar
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
North America: 11:00am PDT / 2:00pm EDT – Sign up
Europe: 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET – Sign up

Are your search results cutting it? The daunting diversity and rapid growth in information that search applications must slice through puts constant pressure on the quality of search results. There are many individual approaches that help ensure users can find…

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The Open Source Legal Maze

As some of you may know, I blog regularly on Network World’s Open Source Subnet. Watch weekly for more of my musings on trends, news and any number of topics that catch my interest. In my most recent post, I ask readers for their take on the legal maze associated with open source. In my opinion, Apache is the most liberal open source package today, the one most true to form. Everybody can use it,…

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Lucene Revolution features Cisco, IBM, eHarmony, LinkedIn, Twitter, Sears, Acquia

Tuesday, 5 October 2010 23:00 to Saturday, 9 October 2010 23:00

We’re pleased to announce that the list of speakers for Lucene Revolution (Boston, Massachusetts — October 7-8) has now been published! The conference features  a broad swath of thought leaders, experienced search application development participants and technologists, cutting edge architects, leading expert Apache Lucene/Solr committers and open source developers.

What’s equally interesting is the broad cross section of companies in attendance: Cisco, IBM, eHarmony, LinkedIn, Twitter, Sears,…

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Free Webinar: How Cisco’s Pulse uses Lucene/Solr to put Social Networks to Work

Join Sonali Sambhus, senior search architect at Cisco, Stephen Bochniski, Software Engineer at Cisco and Thangam Arumugam, Senior Search Architect at Cisco for an in-depth technical workshop. Learn how the Cisco team designed and optimized Pulse with Lucene and Solr.

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