Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-08 Thread Sebastian Schelter
Hi Pavan, Committership is given for engagement with the project like providing documentation, answering questions on the mailinglist, reviewing patches, testing patches and submitting patches. We currently have a discussion ongoing about the future of mahout, feel free to participate.

Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-07 Thread Sebastian Schelter
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

Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-07 Thread Suneel Marthi
Congrats Andrew. On Friday, March 7, 2014 12:13 PM, Sebastian Schelter s...@apache.org 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

RE: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-07 Thread Martin, Nick
Awesome! Congrats Andrew very well-deserved. -Original Message- From: Sebastian Schelter [mailto:s...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 12:13 PM To: user@mahout.apache.org; d...@mahout.apache.org Subject: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter Hi, this is to announce

Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-07 Thread Frank Scholten
Congratulations Andrew! On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Sebastian Schelter s...@apache.org 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.

Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-07 Thread Kevin Moulart
Congratulation Andrew !— Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Frank Scholten fr...@frankscholten.nl wrote: Congratulations Andrew! On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Sebastian Schelter s...@apache.org wrote: Hi, this is to announce that the Project Management Committee

Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-07 Thread Andrew Musselman
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

Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-07 Thread Pavan Kumar N
Congratulations to Andrew. Would be nice to have some information/background on how PMC evaluated Andrew to become committer. Also would be nice what future aspects/algorithms of machine learning is mahout is going to focus on. I have been keen to maintain code for one of the projects and

Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-07 Thread Scott C. Cote
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 Š. (and hopefully creating something meaningful for you guys) Scott PS: am bootstrapping my Machine Learning

Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-07 Thread Gokhan Capan
Welcome and congratulations, Andrew! Sent from my iPhone On Mar 7, 2014, at 20:20, Scott C. Cote scottcc...@gmail.com wrote: I personally am looking forward to the ³advice from the newest ³recommended² committer to hadoop. Congratulations to Mahout team for increasing and growing :) Now

RE: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-07 Thread Saikat Kanjilal
Congrats Andrew, I've taken the coursera course, it was interesting but was hoping it could cover some more in the area of deep learning. Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 12:19:52 -0600 Subject: Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter From: scottcc...@gmail.com To: user@mahout.apache.org I

Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter

2014-03-07 Thread Stevo Slavić
:52 -0600 Subject: Re: Welcome Andrew Musselman as new comitter From: scottcc...@gmail.com To: user@mahout.apache.org I personally am looking forward to the ³advice from the newest ³recommended² committer to hadoop. Congratulations to Mahout team for increasing and growing :) Now