Thanks Robin, Ted, Jake and Sean for your feedback. I've refined my proposal, added in a milestone timeline, with design details, and have submitted it at the GSoC site. The title of the proposal is *Restricted Boltzmann Machines on the Netflix Dataset. Please do give me your feedback on the proposal located here<https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-jUrudTSg7-ZTg3YTU5YTktZDBhZC00NWFiLTk4MTQtNzVlODZhOWEzYTU0&hl=en> .*
I have a couple of queries that'd help me further refine my proposal. Firstly, I am expecting to reuse the code at *org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.example.netflix *and have mentioned so in my proposal. Please let me know if this is OK, or if you foresee any problems doing this. Secondly, I will implement a HBase-based datastore as well as a InMemory-based one, but is the InMemory-based one a pre-requisite for the HBase-based one to be used? (Eventually everything has to go to memory, so is this being done elsewhere or does the InMemory datastore do it?) Thanking you, Best regards, Sisir Koppaka
