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CVREG: Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiasts’ Group – “SOLR: Searching on Lucene with Ruby :)”

By Erik HatcherDecember 12, 2011

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Last minute mention, in case you happen to be in the Central VA area (Richmond and surrounding areas) tomorrow night… I’ll be discussing Solr and the latest greatest techniques folks are using to work with Solr from Ruby.  The abstract blurb follows: “Erik Hatcher will discuss and demonstrate the state of the art with using Solr from Ruby. He’ll cover RSolr (and the forthcoming deprecation and removal of solr-ruby, RIP: solr-ruby), …

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The Rich Web Experience

By Erik HatcherNovember 15, 2011

Tuesday, 29 November 2011 to Friday, 2 December 2011

I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Rich Web Experience conference in Ft. Lauderdale, presenting an “Introduction to Solr”, “Solr Recipes”, and “Lucene for Solr Developers”.  I’ll be tying all of these presentations together into a cohesive search/Solr track going from the introduction, to recipes for common tasks, through advanced customization of Solr.…

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Triangle Hadoop Users Group, Next Meeting: November 15, 2011 @ Bronto Software

By Grant IngersollNovember 9, 2011

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
18:30 to 23:30

For those of you in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill NC area, Lucid Imagination is sponsoring the next (and ongoing) Triangle Hadoop Users Group Meeting, November 15, 2011 @ Bronto Software in Durham, NC.   The next meeting will feature Alan Gates of Hortonworks.  Alan will be speaking on Apache Pig and HCatalog.  To RSVP and find out more, visit www.trihug.org.…

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SF Bay Area Apache Mahout User Meeting on Nov. 29

By Grant IngersollNovember 5, 2011

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
18:30 to 21:30

For all of those interested in Apache Mahout and scalable machine learning, Lucid Imagination is hosting a Mahout Users Meeting at it’s new office in Redwood City on Nov. 29th. Doors open at 6:30 pm. The night will feature two speakers, Ted Dunning of MapR Technologies and Grant Ingersoll of Lucid Imagination, along with a social gathering with food and drinks.

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Charlottesville, VA meetup

By Erik HatcherAugust 9, 2011

Monday, 15 August 2011
18:00 to 21:00

If you’re in the central VA, or even in the northern VA / DC area, come join us for the inaugural “Charlottesville Solr and Lucene Meetup”. Charlottesville is home to the co-authors of Manning’s “Lucene in Action” and Packt’s Solr “Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server” books. This area is a hotbed of search activity thanks to NGIC and DIA calling Charlottesville home, and the many gov’t subcontractors …

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Überconf – No Fluff, Just Solr

By Erik HatcherJuly 19, 2011

Tuesday, 12 July 2011 to Friday, 15 July 2011

I had the honor and pleasure of being invited to speak at Überconf last week in the Denver, CO area. Überconf The annual conference is organized by Jay Zimmerman of No Fluff, Just Stuff fame. Überconf has the same top-notch quality, at a grander scale – 10 concurrent tracks (woah!), full day pre-conference trainings (mobile, anyone?), food (full breakfast! that’s a REAL hearty bonus!), and …

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Search for National Intelligence and Defense

By David M. FishmanApril 1, 2011

Sunday, 1 May 2011 to Thursday, 5 May 2011

Lucid Imagination will be at the DoDIIS conference in Detroit, May 1-5. Come see us at Booth #869 along with our partner, OpenSource Connections. Marc Krellenstein, Lucid CTO will be speaking on “Future of Enterprise Search with Solr & Lucene” on Monday May 2, 13:00-13:45. Hosted annually by the DIA Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Officer, DoDIIS provides an opportunity for the defense …

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Lucene Revolution: Open Source Search Training Workshops May 23-24

By David M. FishmanMarch 15, 2011

Monday, 23 May 2011 to Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Lucene RevolutionTraining Sessions have now been published for Lucene Revolution, with classes scheduled May 23 and 24 prior to the conference. Workshops include:

  • Developing Search Applications with LucidWorks Enterprise: a 2-day instructor-led, hands-on classroom training course designed and developed by the engineers that developed LucidWorks Enterprise (LWE). The objective of this course is to introduce LucidWorks Enterprise to users with no previous experience working with search applications.
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Community Conference: Berlin Buzzwords, June 6-7

By David M. FishmanMarch 15, 2011

Monday, 6 June 2011 to Tuesday, 7 June 2011

The 2d annual Berlin Buzzwords 2011 conference comes to the German capital again this spring, June 6-7, organized by the European dev and open source community for scalable search, data analysis and NoSQL projects. Topics include current developments in the Apache projects Hadoop, Lucene and Solr, scaling search,  NoSQL databases such as Apache CouchDB, HBase and MongoDB  and more.

Conference organizers include:  our friends Isabel Drost …

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Reminder: RTP Solr/Lucene Meetup 15 February at Lulu Press — Raleigh, NC

By David M. FishmanFebruary 14, 2011

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
18:00 to 20:45

Join us for the latest Solr/Lucene Meetup in Raleigh, North Carolina, this Tuesday February 15

Sponsored by Lucid Imagination and hosted at Lulu Press - 3101 Hillsborough Raleigh, NC

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 6:30 PM

  • 6:30: Meet and Greet
  • 7:00-7:30: Title TBD — Rob Shin from ElasticPath
  • 7:35-8:05: Implementing Local Search (geo-spatial search) with Apache Solr and Lucene — Grant Ingersoll from Lucid Imagination
  • 8:30-8:45: News

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