Hi, During the summer of 2008, I used Mahout for a school project on text classification. I really enjoyed experience. I graduated at the beginning of 2009 and I wasn't able to contribute to Mahout while starting my new job. However, I now feel that I have more time and I would like to contribute. My main reason for contributing would be to participate in a software effort outside my regular day job. I would like to see and work with code, designs and methodology of another group, I feel that it would help me become a better developer.
What should I do first? I was not bad at theoretical ML a few years back (while in school), however, I am afraid that most of it is gone. I am sure that I will be able to learn it back, but I would like to start with something that is not to math oriented. I guess adding test coverage would be a start. Any idea? Thanks, Philippe.
