Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic

[Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>]

Please join me in congratulating Mahout's newest committers, Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic, both of whom have been contributing to Mahout for some time now.

Gokhan, Stevo, new committer tradition is to give a brief background on yourself, so you have the floor!

Congrats,
Grant

Re: Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic

[Gokhan Capan <gk...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Sorry I was on a vacation.
Congratulations, Stevo!

I think being a Mahout committer is a big deal, and I am really pleased
that I am one now.

I am a Researcher at Anadolu University, Turkey, and a Data Scientist at
Dilisim, a company specialized in IR, NLP, and Data Science solutions.

I hope I can participate well to committers' great efforts to empower users
to perform massive, real-world machine learning.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Gokhan


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dl...@gmail.com>wrote:

> congratulations!
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Dan Filimon
> <da...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Congratulations to the both of you! :)
> > It's great to have you on board!
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Stevo Slavić <ss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Grant, Suneel and rest of the team,
> > >
> > > I'm a Java software developer and OSS enthusiast from Serbia with 7
> years
> > > of professional experience in IT industry.
> > > Together with teams I've been part of, I have designed, built and
> > > successfully delivered multiple applications and websites from various
> > > business domains (online media, e-government, telecommunications,
> > > e-commerce). In both small and large enterprise scale apps, open source
> > > technologies and communities around them were and remain to be one of
> the
> > > key components and ingredients for success.
> > >
> > > It's always a great pleasure for me to give back to OSS projects that I
> > > use, through submitting patches or just being good community member.
> > > So far I've contributed to and been involved the most on Spring
> framework
> > > and other associated projects from the Spring portfolio.
> > >
> > > Back in April last year I rediscovered my passion and interest in
> machine
> > > learning, AI and computer science in general through prof. Andrew Ng's
> > > Coursera
> > > machine learning MOOC <https://www.coursera.org/course/ml> which I
> > > successfully
> > > completed <http://bit.ly/sslavic-coursera-ml>. Going from ML theory to
> > > practice, through the mist of Big Data hype, lead me to the greatness
> of
> > > Apache Mahout project.
> > >
> > > You all do me great honor by accepting me into the team, team of
> > > exceptional individuals yet great team players, with such positive and
> > > creative atmosphere.
> > > My contributions to the project so far were rather limited, and in near
> > > future they are likely to remain so as I still have lots to learn
> first.
> > > At least in the beginning, more than anything else I expect that I'll
> be
> > > able to contribute to the project by making it even more approachable
> to
> > > general audience of IT practitioners like myself through actively
> > promoting
> > > it, supporting users on the mailing list to my best, and working on the
> > > documentation. Level of commitment will surely increase with time.
> > >
> > > I thank you all once more for this wonderful opportunity, and wish us
> and
> > > the project lots of success!
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Stevo Slavic.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Suneel Marthi <
> suneel_marthi@yahoo.com
> > > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > Congrats Gokhan and Stevo!!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________
> > > >  From: Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>
> > > > To: "dev@mahout.apache.org" <de...@mahout.apache.org>
> > > > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:04 PM
> > > > Subject: Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Please join me in congratulating Mahout's newest committers, Gokhan
> > Capan
> > > > and Stevo Slavic, both of whom have been contributing to Mahout for
> > some
> > > > time now.
> > > >
> > > > Gokhan, Stevo, new committer tradition is to give a brief background
> on
> > > > yourself, so you have the floor!
> > > >
> > > > Congrats,
> > > > Grant
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

Re: Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic

[Dmitriy Lyubimov <dl...@gmail.com>]

congratulations!


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Dan Filimon
<da...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Congratulations to the both of you! :)
> It's great to have you on board!
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Stevo Slavić <ss...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Grant, Suneel and rest of the team,
> >
> > I'm a Java software developer and OSS enthusiast from Serbia with 7 years
> > of professional experience in IT industry.
> > Together with teams I've been part of, I have designed, built and
> > successfully delivered multiple applications and websites from various
> > business domains (online media, e-government, telecommunications,
> > e-commerce). In both small and large enterprise scale apps, open source
> > technologies and communities around them were and remain to be one of the
> > key components and ingredients for success.
> >
> > It's always a great pleasure for me to give back to OSS projects that I
> > use, through submitting patches or just being good community member.
> > So far I've contributed to and been involved the most on Spring framework
> > and other associated projects from the Spring portfolio.
> >
> > Back in April last year I rediscovered my passion and interest in machine
> > learning, AI and computer science in general through prof. Andrew Ng's
> > Coursera
> > machine learning MOOC <https://www.coursera.org/course/ml> which I
> > successfully
> > completed <http://bit.ly/sslavic-coursera-ml>. Going from ML theory to
> > practice, through the mist of Big Data hype, lead me to the greatness of
> > Apache Mahout project.
> >
> > You all do me great honor by accepting me into the team, team of
> > exceptional individuals yet great team players, with such positive and
> > creative atmosphere.
> > My contributions to the project so far were rather limited, and in near
> > future they are likely to remain so as I still have lots to learn first.
> > At least in the beginning, more than anything else I expect that I'll be
> > able to contribute to the project by making it even more approachable to
> > general audience of IT practitioners like myself through actively
> promoting
> > it, supporting users on the mailing list to my best, and working on the
> > documentation. Level of commitment will surely increase with time.
> >
> > I thank you all once more for this wonderful opportunity, and wish us and
> > the project lots of success!
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Stevo Slavic.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Suneel Marthi <suneel_marthi@yahoo.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Congrats Gokhan and Stevo!!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > >  From: Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>
> > > To: "dev@mahout.apache.org" <de...@mahout.apache.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:04 PM
> > > Subject: Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic
> > >
> > >
> > > Please join me in congratulating Mahout's newest committers, Gokhan
> Capan
> > > and Stevo Slavic, both of whom have been contributing to Mahout for
> some
> > > time now.
> > >
> > > Gokhan, Stevo, new committer tradition is to give a brief background on
> > > yourself, so you have the floor!
> > >
> > > Congrats,
> > > Grant
> > >
> >
>

Re: Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic

[Dan Filimon <da...@gmail.com>]

Congratulations to the both of you! :)
It's great to have you on board!


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Stevo Slavić <ss...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Grant, Suneel and rest of the team,
>
> I'm a Java software developer and OSS enthusiast from Serbia with 7 years
> of professional experience in IT industry.
> Together with teams I've been part of, I have designed, built and
> successfully delivered multiple applications and websites from various
> business domains (online media, e-government, telecommunications,
> e-commerce). In both small and large enterprise scale apps, open source
> technologies and communities around them were and remain to be one of the
> key components and ingredients for success.
>
> It's always a great pleasure for me to give back to OSS projects that I
> use, through submitting patches or just being good community member.
> So far I've contributed to and been involved the most on Spring framework
> and other associated projects from the Spring portfolio.
>
> Back in April last year I rediscovered my passion and interest in machine
> learning, AI and computer science in general through prof. Andrew Ng's
> Coursera
> machine learning MOOC <https://www.coursera.org/course/ml> which I
> successfully
> completed <http://bit.ly/sslavic-coursera-ml>. Going from ML theory to
> practice, through the mist of Big Data hype, lead me to the greatness of
> Apache Mahout project.
>
> You all do me great honor by accepting me into the team, team of
> exceptional individuals yet great team players, with such positive and
> creative atmosphere.
> My contributions to the project so far were rather limited, and in near
> future they are likely to remain so as I still have lots to learn first.
> At least in the beginning, more than anything else I expect that I'll be
> able to contribute to the project by making it even more approachable to
> general audience of IT practitioners like myself through actively promoting
> it, supporting users on the mailing list to my best, and working on the
> documentation. Level of commitment will surely increase with time.
>
> I thank you all once more for this wonderful opportunity, and wish us and
> the project lots of success!
>
> Kind regards,
> Stevo Slavic.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Suneel Marthi <suneel_marthi@yahoo.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Congrats Gokhan and Stevo!!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >  From: Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>
> > To: "dev@mahout.apache.org" <de...@mahout.apache.org>
> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:04 PM
> > Subject: Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic
> >
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating Mahout's newest committers, Gokhan Capan
> > and Stevo Slavic, both of whom have been contributing to Mahout for some
> > time now.
> >
> > Gokhan, Stevo, new committer tradition is to give a brief background on
> > yourself, so you have the floor!
> >
> > Congrats,
> > Grant
> >
>

Re: Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic

[Stevo Slavić <ss...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Grant, Suneel and rest of the team,

I'm a Java software developer and OSS enthusiast from Serbia with 7 years
of professional experience in IT industry.
Together with teams I've been part of, I have designed, built and
successfully delivered multiple applications and websites from various
business domains (online media, e-government, telecommunications,
e-commerce). In both small and large enterprise scale apps, open source
technologies and communities around them were and remain to be one of the
key components and ingredients for success.

It's always a great pleasure for me to give back to OSS projects that I
use, through submitting patches or just being good community member.
So far I've contributed to and been involved the most on Spring framework
and other associated projects from the Spring portfolio.

Back in April last year I rediscovered my passion and interest in machine
learning, AI and computer science in general through prof. Andrew Ng's Coursera
machine learning MOOC <https://www.coursera.org/course/ml> which I successfully
completed <http://bit.ly/sslavic-coursera-ml>. Going from ML theory to
practice, through the mist of Big Data hype, lead me to the greatness of
Apache Mahout project.

You all do me great honor by accepting me into the team, team of
exceptional individuals yet great team players, with such positive and
creative atmosphere.
My contributions to the project so far were rather limited, and in near
future they are likely to remain so as I still have lots to learn first.
At least in the beginning, more than anything else I expect that I'll be
able to contribute to the project by making it even more approachable to
general audience of IT practitioners like myself through actively promoting
it, supporting users on the mailing list to my best, and working on the
documentation. Level of commitment will surely increase with time.

I thank you all once more for this wonderful opportunity, and wish us and
the project lots of success!

Kind regards,
Stevo Slavic.


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Suneel Marthi <su...@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Congrats Gokhan and Stevo!!
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>
> To: "dev@mahout.apache.org" <de...@mahout.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:04 PM
> Subject: Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic
>
>
> Please join me in congratulating Mahout's newest committers, Gokhan Capan
> and Stevo Slavic, both of whom have been contributing to Mahout for some
> time now.
>
> Gokhan, Stevo, new committer tradition is to give a brief background on
> yourself, so you have the floor!
>
> Congrats,
> Grant
>

Re: Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic

[Suneel Marthi <su...@yahoo.com>]

Congrats Gokhan and Stevo!!




________________________________
 From: Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>
To: "dev@mahout.apache.org" <de...@mahout.apache.org> 
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:04 PM
Subject: Welcome new committers Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic
 

Please join me in congratulating Mahout's newest committers, Gokhan Capan and Stevo Slavic, both of whom have been contributing to Mahout for some time now.

Gokhan, Stevo, new committer tradition is to give a brief background on yourself, so you have the floor!

Congrats,
Grant