Hello all, I am Satyam, a Computer Science student, with great interest in Scalability and Machine Learning, and a strong flair in java programming .I recently discovered Apache technologies in the above areas: Hadoop and Mahout, while browsing Google I/O videos on youtube. I aspire to get involved in these projects .Incidentally, Mahout has a strong presence in GSOC and has me interested. I have been digging the mahout mailing-list archives and stumbled upon the threads that seem to be the origin of interest in the JIRA issues. http://find.searchhub.org/document/d8a473db89c7b99e I do not have any experience with Hadoop and am working towards building a sound understanding of this technology. I consider myself to be a self-starter.I am already digging through the Mahout source code and trying to get familiar with it. Please give directions and suggestions to help me on my very first FOSS experience. Hope I can get to be a part of this community and get a chance to contribute to these amazing projects.
Regards, Satyam
