I personally am looking forward to the ³advice" from the newest ³recommended² committer to hadoop.
Congratulations to Mahout team for increasing and growing :) Now back to my using . (and hopefully creating something meaningful for you guys) Scott PS: am bootstrapping my Machine Learning knowledge by taking the coursera course offered by Andrew NG - correct my shaky knowledge of classifiers. Anyone else on this list taking or have taken this course? (obviously - committers are probably not, but .) On 3/7/14, 11:36 AM, "Andrew Musselman" <[email protected]> wrote: >Thank you for the welcome! Looking forward to it. > >I have a math background and got started with recommenders by building the >first album recommender for Rhapsody ( http://rhapsody.com ) while I was >doing web development and web services work for the service. Since then I >learned to love/hate Pig and Hadoop for a living, and now I do data >engineering and analytics at Accenture. > >We've used Mahout on a few production projects, and we're looking forward >to more. > >See you on the lists! > >Best >Andrew > > >On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> this is to announce that the Project Management Committee (PMC) for >>Apache >> Mahout has asked Andrew Musselman to become committer and we are >>pleased to >> announce that he has accepted. >> >> Being a committer enables easier contribution to the project since in >> addition to posting patches on JIRA it also gives write access to the >>code >> repository. That also means that now we have yet another person who can >> commit patches submitted by others to our repo *wink* >> >> Andrew, we look forward to working with you in the future. Welcome! It >> would be great if you could introduce yourself with a few words :) >> >> Sebastian >>
