I had already planned on going to the conference for other reasons, so I can be kind of a "messenger" if none of you can make it.
Of course, ideally one of you can go and actually participate in the discussion. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Yeah, we need to hurry up, if we're going to do it. > > > On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > 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. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >
