Meetings/2013-07-03

June 27

Wikimedia Tech Talk

What	Solr based Search
How	Google Hangout on Air / YouTube stream + IRC for questions to the speakers.
When	Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 19:30 UTC (12:30 PDT), 60 minutes
Where	Physical space: Wikimedia Foundation Inc., 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA, 6th floor SF office, "Collab" space IRC: #wikimedia-dev connect YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVkItxI0I0c
Food	Brown bag - bring your own
Facilitators	tbc

Solr based Search

Nik Everett and Chad Horohoe have started work to replace our current mostly home grown high performance Search backend with the intent of leveraging Solr, a popular open source search tool to provide a more fault tolerant, faster, and more relevant search while reducing our dependency on high end servers.