On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the main discussions was on obtaining data to be used by anyone > coming in to the project who may not have data. There were a couple of good
For what it's worth, the example that I included with my code was the GroupLens data (http://grouplens.org/). This may be specific to the algorithms I was implementing (it's movie recommendation data) but I bet we can turn up some publicly-available data sets too. Even if we can't redistribute them, as in the case of GroupLens, we can write examples that let people plug in the data to them. Just a thought. > Another one was about obtaining computing resources. Had some possible > contacts that may be able to help, but am not going to commit anything at > this point, until it is official. But hopefully we can get something in > place for committers. Also was the suggestion that we work with Hadoop and > Nutch to figure out ways to obtain computing resources. Does Amazon donate resources to developers of open-source projects? If I can ever get a Google App Engine account, and see if it fits our needs, I could inquire about getting some modest resources for free for Mahout. I think they'd be quite inclined in spirit to do this, just a question of how ready GAE is.
