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Created January 28, 2012 23:54 — forked from dynajoe/gist:1696239
initial meeting

In order for me to have a good idea of who will be attending the event please #rsvp to @nodekc before each meeting. Our meetings will be held at snow and company (Just off I35 in downtown KC) monthly or every other week, depending on interest. If you have a laptop please bring it (wireless internet will be provided).

The NodeKC user group will focus on building open source node projects. We'll work collaboratively on projects that the group determines to be interesting and challenging. Our first project, however, has been pre-determined for the sake of a quick start. This project idea will be announced and developed further at the first meetup.

We'll break into two groups and work toward a similar goal on the project after the first meeting. These groups will have a set of user stories to accomplish before the next meetup. At the following meeting we'll review each of the groups code and determine which codebase to merge into the main github branch. We can also selectively choose parts of each of the grou

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smerchek / solr-session-proposal-lightning.md
Last active September 29, 2015 22:28
Session Proposal - Solr

###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-agn

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smerchek / speakerbio.md
Last active September 29, 2015 22:27
My Speaker Bio

Scott graduated from Kansas State University in 2010 and has since worked at Softek Solutions, Inc. He is considered a man of all trades at Softek, working on anything from SQL on the back-end to HTML/JS on the front-end and everything in between. He has recently specialized in using Puppet to deploy infrastructure and customizing Lucene and Solr. He is very interested in search, analytics, dealing with big data, and data visualization. He is always interested in the latest technologies and trends in the industry, and of course learning! Outside software and technology, Scott enjoys reading, cycling, running, and spending time with his wife.