Here's my current draft. It's mostly copy and paste from last month since I don't believe there have been significant changes. Anyone care to mention or call out particular upcoming changes, improvements, issues, etc.? How about external events?
=== 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.
