It's great fun to watch Chris squirm in front of hundreds of people, I highly recommend it!
Unfortunately, it's really hard to stump him entirely! Erick On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org>wrote: > > (Note: cross posted announcement, please confine any replies to solr-user) > > > Hey folks, > > On Wednesday, I'll be doing a "Stump The Chump" session at Lucene > Revolution EU in Dublin Ireland. > > http://lucenerevolution.org/stump-the-chump > > If you aren't familiar with "Stump The Chump" it is a Q&A style session > where I (the Chump) get put on the hot seat to answer tough / interesting > / unusual questions about Lucene & Solr -- live, on stage, in front of > hundreds of people who are laughing at me, with judges who have all seen > and thought about the questions in advance and get to mock me and make me > look bad. > > It's really a lot of fun. > > Even if you won't be at the conference, you can still participate by > emailing your challenging question to st...@lucenerevolution.org. > (Regardless of whether you already found a solution to a tough problem, > you can still submit it and see what kind of creative solution I might > come up with under pressure.) > > Prizes will be awarded at the discretion of the judges, and video should > be posted online at some point soon after the con -- more details and > links to videos of past sessions are in my recent blog posts... > > http://searchhub.org/tag/chump/ > > > > -Hoss >
