> Have you used Mahout in some context before? Did you already checkout the > code base and build it? It usually helps if you are looking into solving a > specific problem with the project to find an area that interests you > personally.
I worked through the Coursera ML course, which is how I heard about Mahout. I then read through some of Mahout in Action. I have checked out the codebase, had difficulty building it on Windows, but I've done it successfully on Ubuntu tonight so full steam ahead. Not sure I have a specific interest, seen a lot of good ideas thrown around on this thread this week. Ted had listed some possible GSOC ideas that I'd be open to if no students took them on. I see the JIRA has an "intro" tag, was going to explore some of those a bit to get my feet wet. Daniel
