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Submitted by voidberg on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 02:01.

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Session time: 
08/30/2008 - 13:30 - 08/30/2008 - 14:30
Conference booklet summary and bio
Article for conference booklet: 
Update: The session was moved to 13:30 in the same room. Apache Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene which offers an HTTP interface, faceted search, caching and replication. Drupal has already a module (ApacheSolr) which does a very good job but which doesn't use some of the more advanced features. This talk will introduce them to you and will show you how you could use them to build cool stuff with Drupal.
Bios for conference booklet: 
Alexandru Badiu is a Drupal developer from Romania who fell in love with Drupal 5 years ago and hasn't looked back since.

Overview

Apache Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene which offers an HTTP interface, faceted search, caching and replication. Drupal has already a module (ApacheSolr) which does a very good job but which doesn't use some of the more advanced features. This talk will introduce them to you and will show you how you could use them to build cool stuff with Drupal.

Agenda

* Introduction to Solr
* The ApacheSolr module
* Schema
* Request handlers
* Input parameters
* Cache warming
* Geolocation: Localsolr and C-Squares

Goals

The goals of this BoF is to introduce people to Apache Solr and show them how they can use it in Drupal.

Resources
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr

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When?

Submitted by http://davidset... on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 09:34.

Sounds great... When is it?

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I'll probably schedule it on

Submitted by voidberg on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 10:17.

I'll probably schedule it on friday or saturday. I'll wait a little to see if at least 5 people are interested. :)