Re: One year of Mahout

[Suneel Marthi <sm...@apache.org>]

Shall we get going with this? Its about time we called out the
accomplishments and the new shape of Mahout.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Andrew Palumbo <ap...@outlook.com> wrote:

> >Where should we collaborate on this? I'd love for this to be a community
> effort,
> >so some place that accepts PRs would be ideal, maybe? Any suggestions?
> Otherwise
> >I'd start on my private github repo with the explicit statement that I'm
> more
> >than happy to have stuff moved elsewhere.
>
> We could start a directory in gh-pages branch for the blog drafts (where
> the docs live):
>
> https://github.com/apache/mahout/tree/gh-pages
>
> Not sure how we would want to deal with the markdown rendering that way.
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Isabel Drost-Fromm <is...@apache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 7:50:45 AM
> To: dev@mahout.apache.org
> Subject: Re: One year of Mahout
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 06:28:27AM -0400, Suneel Marthi wrote:
> > Yes, we have been talking about writing a blog post. One of us will have
> to
> > start on that.
>
> I can promise to start but if I'm not able to finish for whatever reason
> please
> give it to someone else.
>
> Where should we collaborate on this? I'd love for this to be a community
> effort,
> so some place that accepts PRs would be ideal, maybe? Any suggestions?
> Otherwise
> I'd start on my private github repo with the explicit statement that I'm
> more
> than happy to have stuff moved elsewhere.
>
>
> > Some of the accomplishments being:
> >
> > 1. New Mahout Book - 'Apache Mahout: Beyond MapReduce' - Dmitriy
> Lyubimov,
> > Andrew Palumbo
>
> Sounds like a short paragraph.
>
>
> > 2. Backend Integrations with Spark, Flink, H2O
>
> I think we could have one retrospective part here - what did we learn
> walking
> through these integrations and one future part - how do downstream users
> benefit
> from using those.
>
>
> > 3. Multi-Modal Recommender based on Mahout-Samsara in PredictionIO
> > (proposed for Apache Incubator) - Pat Ferrel
>
> Sounds like we should have a brief paragraph in the overview post and an
> extended one on the deeper technical details and reasoning behind it, Pat,
> do
> you think you can provide some notes to that?
>
>
> > 4. Major Linear Algebra performance enhancements (Sebastiano Vigna,
> > Dymitriy Lyubimov)
>
> Performance enhancements are always a great win.
>
>
> > 5. Mahout talks in conferences (Apache Big Data 2016, Vancouver)
> > 6. Most recent being visualization and plotting with Apache Zeppelin
> > (Trevor Grant)
>
> Yeah for screenshots and community pictures ;)
>
>
> Isabel
>
>

Re: One year of Mahout

[Suneel Marthi <sm...@apache.org>]

This is very helpful, we can start filling in the meat.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:51 AM, isabel@apache.org <is...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:28:04PM -0400, Suneel Marthi wrote:
> > Shall we get going with this? Its about time we called out the
> > accomplishments and the new shape of Mahout.
>
> I haven't been actively contributing to Mahout for too long, posted a PR
> to the
> Github repo, let me know if this should be done differently.
>
> Isabel
>
>

Re: One year of Mahout

["isabel@apache.org" <is...@apache.org>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:28:04PM -0400, Suneel Marthi wrote:
> Shall we get going with this? Its about time we called out the
> accomplishments and the new shape of Mahout.

I haven't been actively contributing to Mahout for too long, posted a PR to the
Github repo, let me know if this should be done differently.

Isabel