Adding Emeric! He's interested as well

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On Wed, 4 Jun 2025, 17:49 raghavan m, <raghavan....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone
> 1. Anyone is welcome to participate even if you are not a current solr
> contributor or even a developer of any sort! Other viewpoints such as from
> end-users, data science, or even enthusiasts are all valuable.
> I am interested in this. I have been meaning to contribute to the community
> in some niche area.
> Please count me in. If there is a meetup on this, please add me.
>
> thanks,
> *Raghavan*
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM Kevin Liang (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A) <
> klian...@bloomberg.net> wrote:
>
> > Exciting to see the responses. Based on replies/feedback, a few
> > clarifications:
> >
> > 1. Anyone is welcome to participate even if you are not a current solr
> > contributor or even a developer of any sort! Other viewpoints such as
> from
> > end-users, data science, or even enthusiasts are all valuable.
> >
> > 2. We will broadcast publicly to the solr dev mailing list (will not be
> > creating a new mailing list). I think we will test a monthly meetup
> format
> > starting sometime in late June/early July
> >
> > 3. Better utilizing Jira and tagging DVS issues would be great. We can
> > take a stab at a first iteration of this at first meetup
> >
> > -Kevin
> >
> > From: dev@solr.apache.org At: 06/03/25 05:44:31 UTC-4:00To:
> > dev@solr.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Solr Dense Vector Dev Group
> >
> > Thanks, Kevin, and great to see interest in this!
> >
> > +1 on using Jira, components and why not, maybe even epic to have a
> better
> > view on an "AI Roadmap".
> >
> > Updating Confluence will also be a desirable outcome (although I didn't
> > even know about that roadmap, so even if decently recent maybe its
> utility
> > has faded).
> >
> > We'll keep the dev list updated!
> >
> > Cheers
> > --------------------------
> > *Alessandro Benedetti*
> > Director @ Sease Ltd.
> > *Apache Lucene/Solr Committer*
> > *Apache Solr PMC Member*
> >
> > e-mail: a.benede...@sease.io
> >
> >
> > *Sease* - Information Retrieval Applied
> > Consulting | Training | Open Source
> >
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> >
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 at 04:44, Rahul Goswami <rahul196...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Very interested in this space. A personal area of interest with Vector
> > > search in Solr for me is to be able to utilize a local language model
> > > instead of having to make remote API calls for text-to-vector
> conversion.
> > > Have tinkered with creating a custom UpdateRequestProcessor for this
> > using
> > > ONXX runtime and a couple other approaches, but I am sure with
> > > collaboration from the community, there is a lot of room for
> improvement.
> > >
> > > +1 to Ishan's suggestion of keeping it simple and keeping the
> > > communications on the dev list itself. Just like we have a Solr meetup
> > > every 3rd Wednesday of the month, to begin with, maybe we could fix a
> day
> > > of the month for dev discussions specific to vector search? And send
> out
> > a
> > > reminder a week before the meetup. That way people who would have
> > > "subscribed" to a focus group would anyway attend, and the rest won't
> > miss
> > > out on an opportunity to participate or be an audience if they so
> wish. I
> > > am happy to volunteer for sending out this communication if it helps.
> > >
> > > - Rahul
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya <
> > > ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am very much interested in the area and we have a plan towards
> making
> > > > Solr suitable for vector search applications.
> > > >
> > > > > If you
> > > > > would be interested in this, please reply to this email via the
> email
> > > > > address you would like for communications going forward.
> > > >
> > > > However, I  think we should keep the communications on this list
> > itself,
> > > > given how we have communicated in the past.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 3 Jun, 2025, 12:59 am David Smiley, <dsmi...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I love seeing this initiative/collaboration come from new community
> > > > > members!
> > > > >
> > > > > Note that we have a Roadmap and it doesn't even have the word
> > "vector"
> > > on
> > > > > it https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/Roadmap
> > > > > IMO Updating this roadmap seems to me a useful outcome of this
> > > > > collaboration.
> > > > >
> > > > > Another possible task is to create JIRA issues and use consistent
> > JIRA
> > > > > metadata for "vector" stuff.  I think the JIRA "component" makes
> > sense
> > > --
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/SOLR?selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jir
> > a-projects-plugin:components-page
> > <
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/SOLR?selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:components-page
> >
> > > > > -- there is a bit of grooming to be done in our components by our
> > > > > committers (we have permission).
> > > > >
> > > > > Should these meetings be organized just like the monthly meetups?
> > > There
> > > > > doesn't have to be a Confluence page, however IMO the other aspects
> > of
> > > > the
> > > > > ceremony are useful -- publicize when the meeting happens and post
> a
> > > > > summary somewhere (e.g. dev list) for those that didn't attend.  If
> > > this
> > > > > isn't done, a bunch of people may feel left out just simply wanting
> > to
> > > > know
> > > > > at a high level what's happening... but don't necessarily want to
> > > attend
> > > > > the meeting.  Some months, that applies to me!
> > > > >
> > > > > ~ David
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM Kevin Liang (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A)
> <
> > > > > klian...@bloomberg.net> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hello all,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Alessandro and I were recently chatting about the current state
> of
> > > > dense
> > > > > > vector search in Solr, as well as potential directions going
> > forward.
> > > > One
> > > > > > could argue whether there is a gap in the DVS feature space
> between
> > > > Solr
> > > > > > and other vector DB peers, however we both agree that one of the
> > > > factors
> > > > > > possibly limiting development in this area for Solr is lack of
> > > > > visibility /
> > > > > > coordination amongst contributors.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > To help encourage new improvements in this area, we would like to
> > > gauge
> > > > > > interest in a recurring group meeting to discuss dense vector and
> > > > > semantic
> > > > > > search. This would be an open invite to anyone who is currently
> > > working
> > > > > on
> > > > > > DVS, using DVS, or simply just interested in DVS/AI powered
> search.
> > > If
> > > > > you
> > > > > > would be interested in this, please reply to this email via the
> > email
> > > > > > address you would like for communications going forward.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Since several of us in the Solr community will be attending
> Berlin
> > > > > > Buzzwords in 2 weeks time, we aim to plan our first informal
> > meeting
> > > at
> > > > > the
> > > > > > conference in-person. After that communication/gathering can be
> > > monthly
> > > > > or
> > > > > > ad-hoc depending on interest.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks all,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Kevin
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>

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