Thanks Grant, Suneel and rest of the team, I'm a Java software developer and OSS enthusiast from Serbia with 7 years of professional experience in IT industry. Together with teams I've been part of, I have designed, built and successfully delivered multiple applications and websites from various business domains (online media, e-government, telecommunications, e-commerce). In both small and large enterprise scale apps, open source technologies and communities around them were and remain to be one of the key components and ingredients for success.
It's always a great pleasure for me to give back to OSS projects that I use, through submitting patches or just being good community member. So far I've contributed to and been involved the most on Spring framework and other associated projects from the Spring portfolio. Back in April last year I rediscovered my passion and interest in machine learning, AI and computer science in general through prof. Andrew Ng's Coursera machine learning MOOC <https://www.coursera.org/course/ml> which I successfully completed <http://bit.ly/sslavic-coursera-ml>. Going from ML theory to practice, through the mist of Big Data hype, lead me to the greatness of Apache Mahout project. You all do me great honor by accepting me into the team, team of exceptional individuals yet great team players, with such positive and creative atmosphere. My contributions to the project so far were rather limited, and in near future they are likely to remain so as I still have lots to learn first. At least in the beginning, more than anything else I expect that I'll be able to contribute to the project by making it even more approachable to general audience of IT practitioners like myself through actively promoting it, supporting users on the mailing list to my best, and working on the documentation. Level of commitment will surely increase with time. I thank you all once more for this wonderful opportunity, and wish us and the project lots of success! Kind regards, Stevo Slavic. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Suneel Marthi <[email protected]>wrote: > Congrats Gokhan and Stevo!! > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:04 PM > Subject: Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic > > > Please join me in congratulating Mahout's newest committers, Gokhan Capan > and Stevo Slavic, both of whom have been contributing to Mahout for some > time now. > > Gokhan, Stevo, new committer tradition is to give a brief background on > yourself, so you have the floor! > > Congrats, > Grant >
