Author: srowen
Date: Thu Jul 1 09:47:34 2010
New Revision: 959575
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mahout/pmc/board-reports/2010/board-report-july.txt
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+=== Mahout Status Report: July 2010 ===
+
+ISSUES
+
+There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
+
+CURRENT ACTIVITY
+
+The project continues to target September, 2010 for release of version 0.4.
+This is unchanged since the last report. Recent activity in the project
+can be viewed here:
+
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?
+ pid=12310751&fixfor=12314396&resolution=1
+
+In particular:
+- First real support for distributed recommenders has been released
+
+The project has completed migration of mailing lists and website
+to mahout.apache.org.
+
+GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE
+
+As part of Google's Summer of Code program, Mahout is halfway through
+mentoring five projects. The projects will add or enhance capability in
+the specific areas of:
+
+- Boltzmann Machines
+- Support Vector Machines
+- Singular Value Decomposition for recommendations
+- Neural network with back propagation learning
+- Eigencuts spectral clustering
+
+MAHOUT IN ACTION
+
+The book "Mahout in Action", published by Manning, continues to be
+written and is in 2/3 completion review with the publisher.
+
+EXTERNAL EVENTS
+
+Mahout's recommender system was presented in two talks at the Berlin
+Buzzwords 2010 event.
+
