1. Solr, Lucene, Apache and You!

3. • Lucene and Solr are the guts of Enterprise
Search
• Who develops them? Where did they come
from? How do we know they are safe to use?
Will they be around in 5 years' time? How do
we get support for them? Bugfixes?

5. Lucene Potted History
1999: Created by Doug Cutting
2001: Donated to the ASF
2005: ASF “top level project”
photo by Tim Bray; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doug-Cutting.JPG

6. Solr Potted History
2004: Created by Yonik Seeley
2006: Donated to the ASF
2007: Graduated from incubator
2010: Merged with Lucene
photo by tomdz; http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomdz/2038233746/

7. Apache Potted History
1994: Web server started
1996: number one web server
1999: Foundation formed
2011:
2663 committers
370 members
94 projects
57 incubating projects

8. Graduated from incubator Top level
Members Projects
ASF
Donated
Committers
Apache

9. The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal,
and financial support for a broad range of open source software
projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for
intellectual property and financial contributions that
simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure.
Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process,
Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software
products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic
Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and
individual, to deploy Apache products.

10. Community
over
Code

11. http://people.apache.org/map.html

13. Meritocracy in Action

14. User Contributor Committer Member

19. Photo by tomylees; http://www.flickr.com/photos/71256895@N00/5397681271/lightbox/

21. How to get involved
• Read the lists
• Ask questions
• Offer patches
• Engage with the community