The Apache way of developing open source software relies on an active community of users, contributors and developers. All of us can contribute in some way or another. Being a committer means that you participate actively in the software development work and have write access to the source code repository. Each project is lead by a the PMC (Project Management Committee) which consists of some of the committers taking an extra responsibility of staking out the future of the project. (more…)

The number of Solr users in the Oslo area is growing, and many have wished for a better community for open source search in the area. Therefore Cominvent together with FindWise have founded a MeetUp group to gather the Oslo Solr Community. We’ll hold the first gathering at The Scotsman right after work time wednesday June 8th. See details at meetup.com

It’s been a long wait, and now it’s here – the release of Solr version 3.1. The 1.4.1 release was in June 2010, and for various reasons there was never a 1.4.2 nor a 1.5 release. Part of the reason is the merge of Lucene and Solr codebase which is also why the version number is 3.1 instead of 1.5.

So what’s new? For me, the single most important features are the Extended Dismax parser (SOLR-1553) and Geospatial search. The full list of improvements is found in CHANGES.TXT, but here are my favorites:

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We held a talk at the Open Source Conference GoOpen 2011 in Oslo today, together with our customer NHST, represented by Hans Jørgen Hoel. The talk was about the process of migrating from FAST ESP to Apache Solr for all of NHST’s news publications and other data sources.

The presentation is in Norwegian.

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Cominvent has been delivering professional training within enterprise search for more than 7 years. First on the FAST platform, and then on Solr/Lucene. We were the first to introduce Solr training in Europe.

We have now expanded our comprehensive training offering, as shown in the training modules illustration, covering the whole range from short half-day introduction for anyone to full certification track for developers.

Go visit our training site www.solrtraining.com and sign up for the training which fits you best.