Open Source HK Monthly Meeting 2019.07

1. Review and Highlights of Hong Kong Open Source Conference (Sammy Fung and OSHK)
2. Openwords: open source (human) language learning (Marc Bogonovich)
3. Search as the New Data Warehouse (Grant Ingersoll)
4. Open Street Map application in Japan (Stroly)
5. Kotlin 101 (Mikhail Vink & Shengyou Fan)

Special Thanks to Venue Sponsor:
Department of Computer Science, City Univerisity of Hong Kong
https://cs.cityu.edu.hk/

3rd speaker: Grant Ingersoll, CTO and co-founder of Lucidworks

Search as the new Data Warehouse
Examine the mapping of search engine capabilities onto modern data warehousing and data lake needs and weigh the pros and cons of such an approach by looking at use cases and capabilities of open source engines like Apache Solr and Elasticsearch.

Grant Ingersoll is the CTO and co-founder of Lucidworks as well as an active member of the Lucene community – a Lucene and Solr committer, co-founder of the Apache Mahout machine learning project, and a long standing member of the Apache Software Foundation. Grant is also the co-author of “Taming Text” from Manning Publications.