On Mar 29, 2010, at 7:13 AM, David Stuart wrote:

> Re this proposal if I am going to help out with mentoring on the Drupal side 
> of things should I sign up to be a mentor with Drupal or Mahout? Anybody know 
> how cross project stuff works?

Not sure, we should probably ask on the GSOC list.

> 
> 
> 
> On 23 Mar 2010, at 09:30, David Stuart wrote:
> 
>> Having looked at Daniels work from last years GSOC where he created a nice 
>> recommendation module (in Drupal) I'm not sure how much mentoring he needs 
>> on the Drupal side of things.
>> 
>> Having said that using Mahout with Drupal for both Recommendation and 
>> Classification is one of the projects that I am looking at for one of my 
>> clients this year so I am quite happy to help out (on the Drupal side as my 
>> Mahout skills are still evolving) in this area.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> 
>> On 23 Mar 2010, at 09:15, Isabel Drost wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Still valuable, but it seems to me that the best mentors will be
>>>> Drupal developers rather than Mahout developers.
>>> 
>>> I would guess for the student's project to be successful he will need
>>> support both, from Drupal people (for the integration side of the
>>> project) and from Mahout people (for the how to use the recommender
>>> side of the project). To me that sounds like a cross-project proposal -
>>> which is always exciting to see.
>>> 
>>> So my proposal would be to find at least a co-mentor in the Drupal
>>> project.
>>> 
>>> Isabel
>> 
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