Hi, Sorry I was on a vacation. Congratulations, Stevo!
I think being a Mahout committer is a big deal, and I am really pleased that I am one now. I am a Researcher at Anadolu University, Turkey, and a Data Scientist at Dilisim, a company specialized in IR, NLP, and Data Science solutions. I hope I can participate well to committers' great efforts to empower users to perform massive, real-world machine learning. Thank you very much. Best regards, Gokhan On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]>wrote: > congratulations! > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Dan Filimon > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > >
