Lucene Solr Has First Female Committer

August 28, 2013

CMS Wire has a new edition of Big Data Bits that features a lot of exciting news for the open source community. Read the latest in their article, “Big Data Bits: Featuring Facebook, Apache Giraph, Continuuity, LucidWorks, Hortonworks & Infochimps.”

The article begins:

“Talk about leaning in, Apache Lucene/Solr’s newest core-commiter is female! Out of the 43 individuals in this prestigious group, Cassandra Targett is the only woman. From what we can tell, she didn’t have to break through a glass ceiling to claim her place, instead she used a great deal of her talent and time to create the Solr reference guide and to update it after each release. While Targett did much of this work as an employee of LucidWorks, now that the company has donated the Lucene/Solr documentation to the Community, she’s ‘volunteering’ there.”

This is good news for women in the open source community. It also bodes well for LucidWorks. They are the commercial entity behind the Apache Lucene Solr community and they employ one-quarter of the core committers on the Apache Lucene Solr project. They build LucidWorks Search and LucidWorks Big Data on top of the foundation of Apache Lucene Solr, which leads to an agile, cost-effective solution that is renowned in the industry for its support.

Emily Rae Aldridge, August 28, 2013

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Big data, News

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