I registered as well. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I registered on mloss.org and am in the process of writing up a > description. > > > > On Sep 29, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Chuck Lam wrote: > > 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>> > -- ted
