I'll put this in SVN later when I'm back at my computer, but, here's what I'm thinking for our quick board report this month. Anything else to be called out as recent progress?
=== Mahout Status Report: June 2010 === ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY The project continues to target September, 2010 for release of version 0.4 Recent activity in the project can be viewed here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa? pid=12310751&fixfor=12314396&resolution=1 In particular: - First real support for distributed recommenders has been released in HEAD - TODO The project has completed migration of mailing lists and website to mahout.apache.org. GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE As part of Google's Summer of Code program, Mahout has begun work mentoring five projects. The projects will add or enhance capability in the specific areas of: - Boltzmann Machines - Support Vector Machines - Singular Value Decomposition for recommendations - Neural network with back propagation learning - Eigencuts spectral clustering MAHOUT IN ACTION The book "Mahout in Action", published by Manning, continues to be written and is entering 2/3 completion review with the publisher.
