Hi folks, I apologize if this isn't the right place to post this (alternate suggestions welcome alongside appropriate chastisement :-)
I'm trying to recruit a volunteer to implement a Solr-based search system for the Grand Comic-Book Database (http://www.comics.org/). We're a non-profit, non-commercial, international group researching and indexing comic books, and we have only two active programmers (we're both unpaid volunteers, as are all GCD personnel). We'd love to have better search, and Solr looks like the right tool, but we're swamped with other technical work. So if anyone reading this would like to help out a comic book-related web site with their Solr experience, for absolutely no monetary compensation whatsoever, do please let me know :-D It would help to be into comic books, but that's not strictly required. Your work would be used quite heavily, and you could of course point that out to anyone you might wish to impress with your expertise. Our technical work is open-source, and therefore available for inspection and showing off. To clarify: I'm not looking for assistance with or pointers about setting Solr up myself (no matter how easy it is). And I'm not trying to get the list as a whole to do our work for us. I'm just trying to find if any individual feels like joining our tech team and volunteering for the project and couldn't think of a more likely place to find candidates than here. If we don't find a volunteer, I'll end up doing it next year, and I'll be reading a lot more documentation before asking any questions here. thanks, -henry
