Author: srowen
Date: Sun Aug 1 13:05:08 2010
New Revision: 981219
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=981219&view=rev
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mahout/pmc/board-reports/2010/board-report-august.txt
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+=== Mahout Status Report: August 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
+
+NEW COMMITTERS
+
+Sebastian Schelter was elected as a new committer in recognition of
+work on distributed recommender implementations.
+
+GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE
+
+Mahout continues to mentor four GSoC projects. The projects will add or
+enhance capability in the specific areas of:
+
+- Boltzmann Machines
+- Support Vector Machines
+- Neural network with back propagation learning
+- Eigencuts spectral clustering
+
+One project was discontinued due to insufficient student participation:
+
+- Singular Value Decomposition for recommendations
+
+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.
