There seems to be a continuous, mostly lurking, handful of people in the IRC channel #mahout on irc.freenode.net and I've seen a few questions asked/answered there lately, despite the low number of participants.
Someone today asked "is this an official channel?" I'm not sure what "official" would mean here, but that aside ... is it worth mentioning #mahout in https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/mahout-wiki.html#MahoutWiki-Community ? The nearby #hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/irc.html) has 122 users in it (#solr 89, #hadoop-pig 12, ...). I'd edit the wiki but the front page seems locked down. Suggest something like: "* For IRC users, there is a (not yet heavily used) channel #mahout on irc.freenode.net, alongside related channels e.g. #hadoop " I assume it would be a mistake to put anything in the wiki that gives impression that IRC questions will be answered, but since neigbouring technologies are well represented in IRC, maybe mentioning the potential venue is worthwhile. Presumably many Solr, Hadoop, Pig users are at least Mahout-curious? cheers, Dan
