Mahout at Twitter

[Jake Mannix <ja...@gmail.com>]

<changing subject line to split off from Sean's Myrrix discussion>

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Dan Brickley <da...@danbri.org> wrote:

> On 5 April 2012 00:18, Jake Mannix <ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > +1 to everything Ted said.
> >
> >  As an added point, while we're on the subject of corporate involvement,
> > forks, and extensions of Mahout, now is as good a time as any to announce
> > that I (and my teammate Andy Schlaikjer) are maintaining a official
> > "Twitter fork" of Mahout (hosted and worked on entirely in the open on
> > GitHub: http://github.com/twitter/mahout ), which we'll be making
> patches
> > off of to submit back to Apache trunk on a periodic basis.
> [...]
>
> Jake, care to add some appropriate brief mention to
> https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/powered-by-mahout.html ? Knowing that
> Twitter make serious use of Mahout adds a lot of credibility to the
> project, and I'm sure would be enough additional information to tip
> various others over into more seriously considering adoption. I
> thought about linking your previous email mention of it, ... but you'd
> know better what to say and/or link to.
>

done!

-- 

  -jake

Re: Mahout at Twitter

[Isabel Drost <is...@apache.org>]

On 05.04.2012 Jake Mannix wrote:
> <changing subject line to split off from Sean's Myrrix discussion>
> 
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Dan Brickley <da...@danbri.org> wrote:
> > On 5 April 2012 00:18, Jake Mannix <ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > +1 to everything Ted said.
> > > 
> > >  As an added point, while we're on the subject of corporate
> > >  involvement,
> > > 
> > > forks, and extensions of Mahout, now is as good a time as any to
> > > announce that I (and my teammate Andy Schlaikjer) are maintaining a
> > > official "Twitter fork" of Mahout (hosted and worked on entirely in
> > > the open on GitHub: http://github.com/twitter/mahout ), which we'll be
> > > making
> > 
> > patches
> > 
> > > off of to submit back to Apache trunk on a periodic basis.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Jake, care to add some appropriate brief mention to
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/powered-by-mahout.html ? Knowing that
> > Twitter make serious use of Mahout adds a lot of credibility to the
> > project, and I'm sure would be enough additional information to tip
> > various others over into more seriously considering adoption. I
> > thought about linking your previous email mention of it, ... but you'd
> > know better what to say and/or link to.
> 
> done!

Awesome - Thanks!

It's always great to see more entries to this list.

Isabel