Congratulations to the both of you! :) It's great to have you on board!
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Stevo Slavić <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
