It’s mid-April, so it is high time we made our donation to our open source project and charity organisation of choice, as we do every month. This time, Krzysiek Skarbek did the selecting: he chose the Solr project and the “Unwanted and Forgotten” Foundation from Lodz.
Solr is a highly efficient universal information search platform, based on the Lucene library. Both projects are being developed together (as “Lucene/Solr”) by the Apache Software Foundation. We have been using Solr in our work as a search mechanism for a few web applications that we build for our customers. We would like to thank the creators and ASF for their efforts in developing the project.
The “Unwanted and Forgotten” Foundation was established in 2006 in Lodz; its purpose is to help homeless animals by finding new homes for them, as well as sterilization and interventions in cases of abused animals. This is the second time we have financially helped this foundation; we made a previous donation back in January 2013.
A big thanks goes to the foundation’s employees and volunteers. We wish them perseverance and the best of luck in the future!