2025-kris-header-final Kris Freedain is the Senior Community Manager for the OpenSearch Project, OpenSearch Sofware Foundation, and technical steering c...
Published a new post today over on the OpenSearch Project blog. " From Search to Search & Apache Lucene: Growing the heart of OpenSearchCon " We had a great conversation with the community at a past event, and a Lucene committer brought up how they don't have their own dedicated conference anymore. I kept thinking about this and updated the CFP language we use. This has already resulted in a ton…
Well friends, I'm off on another bit of travel to represent OpenSearch around the world, giving talks, running a booth, and building community. First stop, my favorite city on the planet - Berlin! June 5th, I will be giving a talk along with my friend Nils Bandener at our OpenSearch Berlin User Group RSVP here Then, I will be managing the OpenSearch booth at Berlin Buzzwords ! We sponsor this…
A couple weeks ago, I was looking at the Apache Lucene site, and noticed the top slides contained the following information quote: " Lucene is the search core of both Apache Solr™ and Elasticsearch™. " As the community manager for the OpenSearch Project, this felt incomplete from my perspective. 😉 So, I put in a PR to update appropriately ( apache/lucene-site/pull/86 ) and it was merged. Guess I…
I've been a happy member of the Fosstodon community for a while now. When I changed Mastodon instances the last time, I looked at a number of them and a couple seemed like a good fit. I work in open source, and Fosstodon seemed like the place for open source people to congregate, exchange ideas, share common interests, and build community with one another. The decision became pretty simple.…
This year at OpenSearchCon Europe in Amsterdam, I got to kick off the second day of the event with a talk on the User Group program. This is a program that is near and dear to my heart - it's been a major part of what I have been creating with the OpenSearch community for a couple years now. I covered an overview of the program including topics about: How I knew it was time to start this program…
After publishing on Wordpress for many years, I've decided to move to bearblog. I really enjoy how lightweight it is. I'll probably add and back-date some of my other content, articles, talks, and links in the near future. I think it may be a valuable effort to have most of that compiled or collected here. This site will be my professional site, while you can find my personal updates on…