Web site facelift completed? Might be nice to mention.
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
