On Monday 06 July 2009 18:54:40 Grant Ingersoll wrote: > > However the basic assumptions and implications (e.g. data locality) > > are known only by few groups/ people at least in the IR and data mining > > domains. > > This is always the case with new things. It is impossible to keep up > with all the things happening.
+1 > It's why it is important to keep trying to raise visibility like we are > doing. > FWIW, I see the same here, although Hadoop has a lot of buzz right now. With all the buzz around I think it is also important that people realise that Hadoop is no silver bullet that solves all their parallel programming problems. I think one should explore the limitations as well. > > Anytime I asked people using Apache software as to whether they are > > subscribed to the corresponding user mailinglist the answer was a > > questioning face and no as an answer. I tried to make clear why > > participation is important - I guess we will see in the near future > > whether I was successful ;) > > Participation takes a whole other level of commitment. People need > to be able to quickly see the benefit or be willing to be on the > cutting edge. It's hard to join a project in the early stages because > it may very well be the case that the project doesn't make it. I > think the ASF raises the chances of success, but it doesn't guarantee > it. +1 I'd guess for researchers it may be even harder: Doing a PhD is more than a fulltime job already. And doing open source work is not exactly recognised on ones list of scientific work... > > I was surprised to see people only vaguely aware of the GSoC > > program. > > GSOC is relatively small, so I don't find it that surprising. And, > they cut back this year, too. Hmm, probably my own selective perception tricked me. > > and found it hard to setup a demo application. I think having some > > JavaDoc, tutorial, setup sort of documentation for each release version on > > our website might help people getting started easier? > > I've been working on this a lot lately and agree it is important for > us for 0.2. Some rework of the landing web page to include quicker > links to source, etc. would be helpful. +1 > Having some sites in production will also be useful, once we get > there. All in good time. I guess that might be the harder part currently as we are still in pretty early stages. Though there are people testing Mahout. > The key right now is for us committers to > make sure we are reviewing patches, improving the code and helping new > contributors feel welcome and help them become committers when > appropriate. +1 > > My first thought was to prepare a task with the goal of building a new > > blog "search engine". They could build a system that identifies > > clusters of > > blogs on a common topic, work on the link graph in the blogosphere, > > detect > > new emerging topics and the like. Before preparing the final seminar > > proposal, I would like to ask you whether there is anything you > > might want > > those students to work on during their winter-term. > > That sounds pretty involved to get done in a semester, but maybe it > depends on the level of student. I could also see things like > benchmarking, setting up clusters and running/tuning. Creating demos, > etc. In other words, let them do a couple of projects. Depends on the number of students - but yes, that was the idea. Isabel -- QOTD: Words are the voice of the heart. |\ _,,,---,,_ Web: <http://www.isabel-drost.de> /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) (fL) IM: <xmpp://[email protected]>
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