On Saturday 17 May 2008, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
> Yeah, these are all cool.  Competitions are a lot of work

:) Too true.


> and cost money, 

In terms of development time, computing time?


> but I think it is a good goal that we should support those 
> interested in participating (which are often academics.) 

I would guess there are quite a few people on this list that might be 
interested in taking part in such a contest. E.g. I remember postings of 
students. In addition I think such competitions provide nice use cases for 
demonstrating what one can do with Mahout - and find topics, that should be 
covered by our project.


> By getting adoption of Mahout in the schools, it will no doubt lead to more
> contributions, etc.

+1

Isabel

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