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+=== Apache Mahout Status Report: October 2013 ===
+
+-----
+
+Apache Mahout has implementations of a wide range of machine learning and
+data mining algorithms: clustering, classification, collaborative filtering
+and frequent pattern mining
+
+Project Status
+--------------
+
+The project continues to have a large and active user base and the developer
+base continues to grow, as well.
+
+
+
+Community
+---------
+
+* On November 28th Frank Scholten was voted in as new committer.
+* No changes to the PMC in the reporting period.
+
+* With Suneel Marthi now working full time on the project there has
+ been a flurry of patches reviewed and committed.
+* The project has moved to Apache CMS, is in the process of tidying
+ most of the wiki based documentation.
+* After a small Hackathon in Berlin pre-Christmas activity has been
+ steady even during the holiday season.
+
+
+
+Community Objectives
+--------------------
+
+With most committers not working on Mahout full time there is always a
+lack of time on lists as well as when it comes to dealing with patches
+submitted quickly. The current goal is to grow the committer base to
+deal with that issue.
+
+As for students that would like to contribute the problem remains that
+the most interesting work seems to be adding new algorithms and
+implementations. It remains a challenge to motivate those interested in
+contributing to work on getting existing implementations stable,
+improving documentation and reviewing incoming patches.
+
+
+Releases
+--------
+
+The community is actively working on getting the 0.9 release out the
+door with just one scaling issue remaining the the k-means++ code newly
+added as part of the 0.8 release (June 2013).
+
+This is supposed to be the last release before 1.0.
+
+
+
+Issues
+------
+
+There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.