We would love to have you! I will let others answer about things to do since I have to fly.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Andrew Musselman <andrew.mussel...@gmail.com > wrote: > In case this thread is still a good place to reply with an offer to help, > I'd love to pitch in. I have built a few production recommenders, most > recently using Mahout at a large retailer along with my partner where we > used ALS, with a pipeline of transforming transactions in XML into vectors > using Pig, running them through Mahout, and writing to Cassandra. I've > also used Hadoop extensively and am experienced writing non-trivial UDF > libraries for Pig, so I am comfortable in that world. > > Where to start? Do you guys have bugs ranked in priority? > > Thanks > Andrew > > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Daniel Longest <dlong...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 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 > > >
