Although it’s still high summer here in the UK (which means it’s probably raining) we’re already looking forward to the autumn and the events across the world we’re attending. In early September we’re running another free to attend London Lucene/Solr Usergroup Meetup, sponsored this time by Blackrock who are talking about using Solr for websites. At the end of September there is another Elasticsearch London Meetup which we will also attend (and may be speaking at this time).
October brings the biggest event in the Lucene/Solr calendar, Lucene Revolution in Austin, Texas, a 4-day event with training and a conference. We’re happy to announce that Alan Woodward and Matt Pearce from Flax will be presenting “Searching the Stuff of Life: BioSolr” about our work with the European Bioinformatics Institute where we’ve been developing Solr features for use by bioinformaticians (and any others who find them useful of course!), for example ontology indexing and external JOINs.
A week later we’ll be at Enterprise Search Europe, where I’ll be delivering the keynote on The Future of Search (you can see an earlier version of this talk from the IKO Singapore conference last month). We’re also running a Meetup on the evening of the 20th open to both conference attendees and others – an informal chance to chat with other search folks. During the conference itself I’m particularly looking forward to hearing from Ian Williams of NHS Wales on Powering the Single Patient Record in NHS Wales with Apache Solr – this is a very large scale and exciting project using Solr for healthcare data.
Looking further ahead, in November we have plans to attend (and possibly speak) I’m speaking on Test Driven Relevancy at Search Solutions 2015, a great one-day event in London which I highly recommend, and we are planning another event running a workshop on Taming Enterprise Search in Singapore together with a partner. As ever, do let us know if you would like to meet up at an event and talk open source search!
