Would you like to be paid to work full time on Nutch?
I know of a few companies that are gearing up to build full-scale, commercial Nutch-based web search engines. They’re not ready to make public announcements about this, but if you think you might like to work on this, please send your resumé to jobs @ lucene.com, and I’ll forward it on. If I know you from Nutch or Lucene contributions, then I’ll add my recommendation.
I’m at JavaOne this morning, thanks to Daniel H Steinberg, who slipped me a pass. Erik Hatcher gave one of his great Lucene talks, much of it tidbits from his upcoming book, “Lucene in Action“. Now I’m off to grab trade show tchotchkes for my kids…
Last week I visited Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab. My host was Scott Kveton. They’ve developed some cool network management tools in house, and also host several open source projects, like Gentoo.
OSU is helping Nutch in a couple of ways. First, they’ve been a guinea pig for the development of intranet-specific features of Nutch. We’ve assembled a Nutch demo searching OSU campus websites that is competitive with a Google Appliance but a lot cheaper and easier to extend.
Second, they’ve offered to help host Nutch. Long-term I’d like to move our CVS, mailing lists and website from SourceForge to OSU. Sourceforge’s CVS in particular is too slow these days.
Lessig gives one of his wonderful talks.
Michael Tiemann and Eben Moglen in conversation.
