Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Details and RSVP at: SFBay Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup San Mateo, CA – Meetup.com.

SFBay Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup San Mateo, CA – Meetup.com.
Lucene/Solr Meetup, June 3
http://www.meetup.com/SFBay-Lucene-Solr-Meetup/
Join us for an evening of presentations and discussion on
Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout (and the rest of the Lucene ecosystem), the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform, featuring:
-Erik Hatcher, Apache Lucene/Solr PMC: Solr power
your data: How to get up an running in 20 minutes or less
-Grant Ingersoll, Apache [...]

BarCamp wiki / BarCampRDU
I’ll be at BarCampRDU tomorrow.  I proposed two sessions, one on Hadoop and Mahout and one on Lucene and Solr.  I don’t think I really want to do both, but I would like to do at least one, so we’ll see what other people are interested in.
If you’re around and you want [...]

For a while now, I have been trying to get my hands on TREC data for the Lucene project.  For those who aren’t familiar, TREC is an annual competition for search engines that provides a common set of documents to index, queries to execute and judgments to check your answers to see how good an [...]

FeatherCast » Blog Archive » Episode 43: Lucene
I did a FeatherCast today with Rich Bowen.  Dang, he is quick at editing…

Coderspiel / The right tool for the slob
This guy’s comment system wasn’t working at the moment, so I will leave my comment here. This won’t make much sense without reading the post first:
It’s funny you mention Wikipedia as an example, since they are running Lucene. As is Technorati and the Internet Archive. [...]