Hey guys, First of all I would like to start by thanking all the commiters and contributors for all their hard work so far on this project.
Most importantly, I want to thank the Apache Mahout community for bringing this very promising project to where it is now. It's pretty amazing to see what the project has accomplished in a short span of 2 years. I strongly believe that Apache Mahout is really going to change things around for the data mining and machine learning community the same way Apache Lucene and Apache Solr is taking over this sector as we speak. Currently Apache Mahout is only available in Java and there are a lot of tools in Mahout that is very useful and a lot of people (students, instructors, researchers and computer scientists are using it daily). I think it would be nice if all of these tools in Mahout were also available in C++ so that users that already have systems written in C++ can plug in an integrate Mahout a lot easier with their existing or planned C++ systems. If we have the C++ port up and running possibly more members of the data mining and machine learning community could get involved and ideas could be shuffled in both directions (Java and C++ port) I will volunteer to spearhead this porting effort to get things started. I am sending this message to all members of the Apache Mahout community on what you think can should be done to get this porting effort up and running. Thanks in advance for you constructive and anticipated responses. Sincerely, Israel Ekpo -- "Good Enough" is not good enough. To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. Quality First. Measure Twice. Cut Once. http://www.israelekpo.com/
