Grant, I could "force" myself to go if necessary as long as it doesn't conflict with December 2-3.
Note the October 1 deadline. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I'm interested, but don't know if I can attend, as much as I would love to > go to Whistler in December. Let's talk off list, and we can add others if > they are interested. We should have a release out w/in the week, so I would > think that would be acceptable. > > -Grant > > > On Sep 28, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Chuck Lam wrote: > > Hi all, >> >> I've been a lurker on the dev mailing list, hoping to make some code >> contribution at some point but haven't gotten around to it yet :P >> >> In any case, my background is a machine learning researcher, and I want >> the >> Mahout developers to be aware of this NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning >> Open >> Source Software in December of this year. >> >> http://mloss.org/workshop/nips08/ >> >> NIPS is one of the top 3-4 conferences for machine learning researchers. >> It >> was in fact at this conference in 2006 where the Stanford MapReduce >> machine >> learning paper was presented. (And obviously that paper is an important >> reference point for Mahout.) I think it's extremely important for Mahout >> to >> have a presence at the workshop, both to recruit contributors and to >> understand the open source direction of the general machine learning >> community. >> >> The submission deadline is Oct. 1, which obviously is extremely tight. >> However, they're only looking for a 500-word abstract right now, and >> deadline for this type of workshop is usually flexible if we can convince >> the workshop organizers the importance of our work. Another requirement is >> that the software must be officially released at the time of submission. I >> don't know the legal definition of that, but I would think that release >> candidate 3 is probably good enough. >> >> I had already planned on attending NIPS, so I'm more than happy to help >> one >> of the main Mahout contributors on positioning and presenting Mahout to >> the >> NIPS researchers. >> > > -- ted
