This isn't enough  for a whole session or workshop, but we've been using
Solr for a lot of small-to-medium-sized projects, and I've been interested
in ways to optimize an environment to host a lot of little Solr instances
(multicore?).

I've also been working a bit with Solango (Solr & Django) and am interested
in what kind of development is happening with Solr connectors for simple
webapp frameworks like that.

-Andy

Just one topic to toss out there.


On 11/10/09 8:38 AM, "Erik Hatcher" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm interested presenting something Solr+library related at c4l10.
> I'm soliciting ideas from the community on what angle makes the most
> sense.  At first I was thinking a regular conference talk proposal,
> but perhaps a preconference session would be better.  I could be game
> for a half day session.  It could be either an introductory Solr
> class, get up and running with Solr (+ Blacklight, of course).  Or
> maybe a more advanced session on topics like leveraging dismax, Solr
> performance and scalability tuning, and so on, or maybe a freer form
> Solr hackathon session where I'd be there to help with hurdles or
> answer questions.
> 
> Thoughts?  Suggestions?   Anything I can do to help the library world
> with Solr is fair game - let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Erik
> 
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Kevin S. Clarke wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> It's time again to collect proposals for Code4Lib 2010 preconference
>> sessions.  We have space for six full day sessions (or 12 half day
>> sessions (or some combination of the two)).  If we get more than we
>> can accommodate, we'll vote... but I don't think we will (take that as
>> a challenge to propose lots of interesting preconference sessions).
>> Like last year, attendees will pay $12.50 for a half day or $25 for
>> the whole day.  The preconference space will be in the hotel so we'll
>> have wireless available.  If you have a preconference idea, send it to
>> this list, to me, or to the code4libcon planning list.  We'll put them
>> up on the wiki once we start receiving them.  Some possible ideas?  A
>> Drupal in libraries session? LOD part two?  An OCLC webservices
>> hackathon?  Send the proposals along...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Kevin