Session Proposal - Solr

solr-session-proposal-lightning.md

###The Lightning Version Solr is an open source search platform built on top of the Apache Lucene project. Solr wraps Lucene with a nice RESTful API, and adds other features like faceted search, grouping, field types, caching, xml configuration, an administration interface, and the ability to scale with distributed search. This session will breeze through the basics of Solr and Lucene. Then we'll touch on each of advanced/awesome features of Solr to demonstrate the power and ease of Solr. This session will of course be supplemented with working examples and demos.

####Reviewer Comments I gave the longer version of this talk for the first time this year, and hope to give it a few more times between now and September. That talk also happened to be my first technical presentation and I got a very good response. I think Solr is a great fit for a 20 minute presentation because it is so easy to set up and query that the power of Solr is immediately apparent. Because of Solr's RESTful API, this talk is language-agnostic and applicable to just about any type of developer.

solr-session-proposal.md

##A RESTful Search Server: Apache Solr Solr is an open source search platform built on top of the Apache Lucene project. Solr wraps Lucene with a nice RESTful API, and adds other features like faceted search, grouping, field types, caching, xml configuration, an administration interface, and the ability to scale with distributed search. This session will start with the basics of Solr and Lucene. We'll then touch on some of the advanced/awesome features of Solr and also look at how to extend Solr with additional pluggable functionality. This session will of course be supplemented with working examples and demos.

####Reviewer Comments I gave this talk for the first time this year, and hope to give it a few more times between now and September. That talk also happened to be my first technical presentation and I got a very good response. The 50 minute format allows for a thorough introduction to the basics of Lucene/Solr and some of Solr's most powerful features. Because of Solr's RESTful API, this talk is language-agnostic and applicable to just about any type of developer.

###Tags open source, solr, search, lucene, REST

toned-down.md

####Add search to your Application: Introcution to Lucene and Solr Solr is an open source search platform built on top of the Apache Lucene project. Solr wraps Lucene with a nice RESTful API, and adds other features like faceted search, grouping, field types, xml configuration, an administration interface, and the ability to scale with distributed search. This session will be an introductory look at the basics of Solr to get search working in a basic application. We'll cover just what's necessary to get a Solr server running, index some documents, and perform the essential queries.

I'd go!