<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.3.2">Jekyll</generator><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2024-03-22T16:50:49+00:00</updated><id>http://mahout.apache.org//feed.xml</id><title type="html">Apache Mahout</title><subtitle>Distributed Linear Algebra</subtitle><author><name>The Apache Software Foundation</name><email>dev@mahout.apache.org</email></author><entry><title type="html">Meeting Minutes</title><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/03/20/Meeting-Minutes.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meeting Minutes" /><published>2024-03-20T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-03-20T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/03/20/Meeting-Minutes</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/03/20/Meeting-Minutes.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="weekly-community-meeting">Weekly community meeting</h2>

<h3 id="attendees">Attendees</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Trevor Grant</li>
  <li>Tommy Naugle</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="old-business">Old Business</h3>
<ol>
  <li>Happy hour some week soon, invite collaborators and conspirators</li>
  <li>Drop this meeting time from two hours to a half hour</li>
  <li>Coordinate on JIRA
    <ul>
      <li>Web site cleanup (~210 broken links fixed out of ~220, tommy continuing)</li>
      <li>Continued qumat data structure work (tommy in flight, akm to review)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Ask INFRA to help us make sure PRs are defaulting to main instead of trunk (akm) (done)</li>
  <li>Kernel method research spike: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2200</li>
  <li>Make ticket to add notebooks to notebooks directory in source tree (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2198)</li>
  <li>Add execute method to qumat https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2201</li>
  <li>Rebuild JIRA - now that we have wiped it clean, on the qumat side anyway, lets start grooming tasks into the appropriate components/releases/etc (todo)
    <ul>
      <li>Including adding filters to all boards so only those tickets show up (todo)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ol>

<h3 id="new-business">New Business</h3>
<ol>
  <li>Tommy is working on making a docker container for previewing website builds</li>
  <li>Trevor is pivoting from kernel research into implementing POC for cirq ie the 9 gates and circuit execute</li>
</ol>

<h3 id="other-business">Other Business</h3>]]></content><author><name>The Apache Software Foundation</name><email>dev@mahout.apache.org</email></author><category term="minutes" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Weekly community meeting]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Meeting Minutes</title><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/03/13/Meeting-Minutes.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meeting Minutes" /><published>2024-03-13T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-03-13T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/03/13/Meeting-Minutes</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/03/13/Meeting-Minutes.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="weekly-community-meeting">Weekly community meeting</h2>

<h3 id="attendees">Attendees</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Andrew Musselman</li>
  <li>Trevor Grant</li>
  <li>Tommy Naugle</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="old-business">Old Business</h3>

<h3 id="new-business">New Business</h3>
<ol>
  <li>Coordinate on JIRA
    <ul>
      <li>Web site cleanup (~210 broken links fixed out of ~220, tommy continuing)</li>
      <li>Continued qumat data structure work (tommy in flight, akm to review)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Ask INFRA to help us make sure PRs are defaulting to main instead of trunk (akm) (done)</li>
  <li>Kernel method research spike: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2200</li>
  <li>Make ticket to add notebooks to notebooks directory in source tree (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2198)</li>
  <li>Add execute method to qumat https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2201</li>
  <li>Rebuild JIRA - now that we have wiped it clean, on the qumat side anyway, lets start grooming tasks into the appropriate components/releases/etc (todo)
    <ul>
      <li>Including adding filters to all boards so only those tickets show up (todo)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ol>

<h3 id="other-business">Other Business</h3>
<ol>
  <li>Happy hour some week soon, invite collaborators and conspirators</li>
  <li>Drop this meeting time from two hours to a half hour</li>
</ol>]]></content><author><name>The Apache Software Foundation</name><email>dev@mahout.apache.org</email></author><category term="minutes" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Weekly community meeting]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Meeting Minutes</title><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/03/06/Meeting-Minutes.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meeting Minutes" /><published>2024-03-06T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-03-06T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/03/06/Meeting-Minutes</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/03/06/Meeting-Minutes.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="weekly-community-meeting">Weekly community meeting</h2>

<h3 id="attendees">Attendees</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Andrew Musselman</li>
  <li>Trevor Grant</li>
  <li>Tommy Naugle</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="old-business">Old Business</h3>

<h3 id="new-business">New Business</h3>
<ol>
  <li>Trevor going off on a spike for kernel methods- what is output?
    <ul>
      <li>Other gates needed?</li>
      <li>Other <other> needed?</other></li>
      <li>https://chat.openai.com/share/ba29ef75-4158-4e22-be40-78ae14c25f93</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Coordinate on JIRA
    <ul>
      <li>Web site cleanup (~200 broken links fixed out of ~220, tommy continuing)</li>
      <li>Python packaging (jowanza tagged on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2174) (done)</li>
      <li>Continued qumat data structure work (tommy in flight, akm to review)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Rebuild JIRA - now that we have wiped it clean, on the qumat side anyway, lets start grooming tasks into the appropriate components/releases/etc (todo)
    <ul>
      <li>Including adding filters to all boards so only those tickets show up (todo)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ol>

<h3 id="other-business">Other Business</h3>
<ol>
  <li>Upgrading Scala and Spark
    <ul>
      <li>At its core would mean fixing docstrings</li>
      <li>So it could compile for Java 1.8</li>
      <li>So we could compile for Spark 2.3/Scala 2.12</li>
      <li>Or in the mean time use maven flag to ignore docstrings for a local build</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Ask INFRA to help us make sure PRs are defaulting to main instead of trunk (akm)</li>
  <li>Make ticket to add notebooks to notebooks directory in source tree (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2198)</li>
  <li>JIRA hygiene with Shashanka in monthly Classic meeting (on hold until Shashanka or Eric picks this up, meeting cancelled otherwise)</li>
</ol>]]></content><author><name>The Apache Software Foundation</name><email>dev@mahout.apache.org</email></author><category term="minutes" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Weekly community meeting]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Meeting Minutes</title><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/02/14/Meeting-Minutes.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meeting Minutes" /><published>2024-02-14T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-02-14T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/02/14/Meeting-Minutes</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/02/14/Meeting-Minutes.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="weekly-community-meeting">Weekly community meeting</h2>

<h3 id="attendees">Attendees</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Andrew Musselman</li>
  <li>Trevor Grant</li>
  <li>Tommy Naugle</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="old-business">Old Business</h3>
<ol>
  <li>Ask INFRA again about boards (done)</li>
  <li>Create new board or adapt one for current work</li>
  <li>Start meeting agenda and minutes doc and share (done)</li>
  <li>Share agenda for next week by Monday (done)</li>
</ol>

<h3 id="new-business">New Business</h3>
<ol>
  <li>Rebuild JIRA - now that we have wiped it clean, on the qumat side anyway, let’s start grooming tasks into the appropriate components/releases/etc (todo)
    <ul>
      <li>Including adding filters to all boards so only those tickets show up (todo)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>A more formal mechanism for proposing / posting agendas (done: Agreed we will chime in on the-asf#mahout channel when agenda is posted)</li>
  <li>Create new board or adapt one for current work (done)</li>
  <li>Coordinate on JIRA
    <ul>
      <li>Web site cleanup (akm and tommy to work off tommy’s spreadsheet)</li>
      <li>Python packaging (jowanza tagged on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2174)</li>
      <li>Continued qumat data structure work (tommy in flight, akm to review)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ol>

<h3 id="other-business">Other Business</h3>
<ul>
  <li>JIRA hygiene with Shashanka in monthly Classic meeting</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>The Apache Software Foundation</name><email>dev@mahout.apache.org</email></author><category term="minutes" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Weekly community meeting]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Meeting Minutes</title><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/01/31/Meeting-Minutes.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meeting Minutes" /><published>2024-01-31T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-01-31T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/01/31/Meeting-Minutes</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2024/01/31/Meeting-Minutes.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="monthly-community-meeting">Monthly community meeting</h2>

<h3 id="attendees">Attendees</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Andrew Musselman</li>
  <li>Trevor Grant</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="jira-focus">JIRA focus</h3>
<ol>
  <li>TBD clear out old “boards;” question into INFRA for help</li>
  <li>Cleared out old versions</li>
  <li>Cleared out old components</li>
  <li>Assigned all potentially relevant Classic tickets to Shashanka Srinivasa</li>
  <li>Resolved stale tickets</li>
  <li>Created new versions <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">classic-15.0</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">qumat-0.1.0</code></li>
  <li>Created new components <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">website</code>, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">classic</code>, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">build-classic</code>, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">qumat</code>, and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">build-qumat</code></li>
</ol>

<h3 id="release-plans">Release plans</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Not discussed but qumat is pushed to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">main</code> and nightlies are building the website from that branch</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="active-ideas">Active Ideas</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Quantum computing</li>
  <li>Python bindings for DSL</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="summary-and-next-steps">Summary and next steps</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Completed work on beta of <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">qumat</code> <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2166">Proof of concept of quantum front-end</a></li>
  <li>Completed JIRA ranching</li>
  <li>TODO in Q12024: Submit proposal to NSF <a href="https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pathways-enable-open-source-ecosystems-pose">Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE)</a></li>
  <li>Reach out to formerly active project members</li>
  <li>Reach out to quantum compute people</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>The Apache Software Foundation</name><email>dev@mahout.apache.org</email></author><category term="minutes" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Monthly community meeting]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Meeting Minutes</title><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/11/29/Meeting-Minutes.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meeting Minutes" /><published>2023-11-29T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-11-29T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/11/29/Meeting-Minutes</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/11/29/Meeting-Minutes.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="monthly-community-meeting">Monthly community meeting</h2>

<h3 id="attendees">Attendees</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Andrew Musselman</li>
  <li>Shannon Quinn</li>
  <li>Trevor Grant</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="jira-focus">JIRA focus</h3>
<ol>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2166">Proof of concept of quantum front-end</a></li>
  <li>TBD: Updating Docker images</li>
  <li>TBD: Live in-browser code environment</li>
  <li>TBD: Simple spike for matrix math on the IBM quantum compute platform</li>
  <li>TBD: Assess all quantum platforms vis-a-vis interop and portability</li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2152">Web site check</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2153">Download page improvements</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2154">Update NOTICE</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2156">Add “how to do your first JIRA” notes</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2157">Add “first ticket” tag or type in JIRA</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2159">Add Docker instructions to nav</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2165">Docker image for web site build</a></li>
  <li>Complete: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2149">Migrate off Travis</a></li>
</ol>

<h3 id="release-plans">Release plans</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Nov: 14.2, point release with minor improvements and new build system</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="active-ideas">Active Ideas</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Quantum computing</li>
  <li>Python bindings for DSL</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="summary-and-next-steps">Summary and next steps</h3>
<ul>
  <li>TODO in Dec: Push 14.2 out</li>
  <li>TODO Dec 3: Pair work (Trevor/Andrew) on beta of <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">mahout-q</code> <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2166">Proof of concept of quantum front-end</a></li>
  <li>TODO in Q12024: Submit proposal to NSF <a href="https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pathways-enable-open-source-ecosystems-pose">Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE)</a></li>
  <li>Reach out to formerly active project members</li>
  <li>Reach out to quantum compute people</li>
  <li>JIRA ranching</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>The Apache Software Foundation</name><email>dev@mahout.apache.org</email></author><category term="minutes" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Monthly community meeting]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Meeting Minutes</title><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/10/25/Meeting-Minutes.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meeting Minutes" /><published>2023-10-25T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-10-25T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/10/25/Meeting-Minutes</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/10/25/Meeting-Minutes.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="monthly-community-meeting">Monthly community meeting</h2>

<h3 id="attendees">Attendees</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Andrew Musselman</li>
  <li>Shannon Quinn</li>
  <li>Jowanza Joseph</li>
  <li>Trevor Grant</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="jira-focus">JIRA focus</h3>
<ol>
  <li>TBD: Updating Docker images</li>
  <li>TBD: Live in-browser code environment</li>
  <li>TBD: Simple spike for matrix math on the IBM quantum compute platform</li>
  <li>TBD: Assess all quantum platforms vis-a-vis interop and portability</li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2152">Web site check</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2153">Download page improvements</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2154">Update NOTICE</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2156">Add “how to do your first JIRA” notes</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2157">Add “first ticket” tag or type in JIRA</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2159">Add Docker instructions to nav</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2165">Docker image for web site build</a></li>
  <li>Complete: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2149">Migrate off Travis</a></li>
</ol>

<h3 id="release-plans">Release plans</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Building web site and library code in GitHub Actions now</li>
  <li>Nightly builds working</li>
  <li>Nov: 14.2, point release with minor improvements and new build system</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="ideas">Ideas</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Quantum computing (IBM and Honeywell have free-tier APIs) XXXL</li>
  <li>Python bindings for DSL (XXXL)</li>
  <li>Automating or maintaining Docker images (XL, including docs)</li>
  <li>New parsing and processing modules
    <ol>
      <li>Proof of concept blockchain data and metadata (XXL)</li>
      <li>Proof of concept GPL/BSD/ALv2/MIT classifier (start with small tutorial)</li>
    </ol>
  </li>
  <li>Live code environment (in-browser) to try DSL (XXL for a real version, start with simple env)</li>
  <li>Language modeling
    <ol>
      <li>Guaranteed ALv2-licensed training models</li>
      <li>Blessed chat/code recs</li>
    </ol>
  </li>
  <li>Look at OpenNLP for tokenizing and other processing</li>
  <li>New embedding similarity job</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="summary-and-next-steps">Summary and next steps</h3>
<ul>
  <li>DONE: Get travis migration done, nightlies running</li>
  <li>TODO in Nov: Push 14.2 out</li>
  <li>Reach out to formerly active project members</li>
  <li>JIRA ranching</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>The Apache Software Foundation</name><email>dev@mahout.apache.org</email></author><category term="minutes" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Monthly community meeting]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Meeting Minutes</title><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/09/27/Meeting-Minutes.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meeting Minutes" /><published>2023-09-27T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-09-27T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/09/27/Meeting-Minutes</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/09/27/Meeting-Minutes.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="monthly-community-call">Monthly community call</h2>

<h3 id="attendees">Attendees</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Andrew Musselman</li>
  <li>Shannon Quinn</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="recap-from-last-meeting">Recap from last meeting</h3>
<ol>
  <li>No material progress</li>
</ol>

<h3 id="jira-focus">JIRA focus</h3>
<ol>
  <li>TBD: Updating Docker images</li>
  <li>TBD: Live in-browser code environment</li>
  <li>TBD: Simple spike for matrix math on the IBM quantum compute platform</li>
  <li>TBD: Assess all quantum platforms vis-a-vis interop and portability</li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2152">Web site check</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2153">Download page improvements</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2154">Update NOTICE</a></li>
  <li>In progress: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2149">Migrate off Travis</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2156">Add “how to do your first JIRA” notes</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2157">Add “first ticket” tag or type in JIRA</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2159">Add Docker instructions to nav</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2165">Docker image for web site build</a></li>
</ol>

<h3 id="release-plans">Release plans</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Nov: 14.2, point release with minor improvements and new build system</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="ideas">Ideas</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Quantum computing (IBM and Honeywell have free-tier APIs) XXXL</li>
  <li>Python bindings for DSL (XXXL)</li>
  <li>Automating or maintaining Docker images (XL, including docs)</li>
  <li>New parsing and processing modules
    <ol>
      <li>Proof of concept blockchain data and metadata (XXL)</li>
      <li>Proof of concept GPL/BSD/ALv2/MIT classifier (start with small tutorial)</li>
    </ol>
  </li>
  <li>Live code environment (in-browser) to try DSL (XXL for a real version, start with simple env)</li>
  <li>Language modeling
    <ol>
      <li>Guaranteed ALv2-licensed training models</li>
      <li>Blessed chat/code recs</li>
    </ol>
  </li>
  <li>Look at OpenNLP for tokenizing and other processing</li>
  <li>New embedding similarity job</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="summary-and-next-steps">Summary and next steps</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Continue monthly community calls</li>
  <li>Complete JIRA focus</li>
  <li>Get travis migration done, nightlies running</li>
  <li>Push 14.2 out</li>
  <li>Reach out to formerly active project members</li>
  <li>JIRA ranching</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>The Apache Software Foundation</name><email>dev@mahout.apache.org</email></author><category term="minutes" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Monthly community call]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Meeting Minutes</title><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/08/30/Meeting-Minutes.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meeting Minutes" /><published>2023-08-30T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-08-30T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/08/30/Meeting-Minutes</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/08/30/Meeting-Minutes.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="monthly-community-call">Monthly community call</h2>

<h3 id="attendees">Attendees</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Andrew Musselman</li>
  <li>Jowanza Joseph</li>
  <li>Trevor Grant</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="recap-from-last-meeting">Recap from last meeting</h3>
<ol>
  <li>No material progress</li>
</ol>

<h3 id="jira-focus">JIRA focus</h3>
<ol>
  <li>TBD: Simple spike for matrix math on the IBM quantum compute platform</li>
  <li>TBD: Assess all quantum platforms vis-a-vis interop and portability</li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2152">Web site check</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2153">Download page improvements</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2154">Update NOTICE</a></li>
  <li>In progress: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2149">Migrate off Travis</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2156">Add “how to do your first JIRA” notes</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2157">Add “first ticket” tag or type in JIRA</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2159">Add Docker instructions to nav</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2165">Docker image for web site build</a></li>
</ol>

<h3 id="release-plans">Release plans</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Aug: 14.2, point release with minor improvements and new build system</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="ideas">Ideas</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Quantum computing (IBM and Honeywell have free-tier APIs) XXXL</li>
  <li>Python bindings for DSL (XXXL)</li>
  <li>Automating or maintaining Docker images (XL, including docs)</li>
  <li>New parsing and processing modules
    <ol>
      <li>Proof of concept blockchain data and metadata (XXL)</li>
      <li>Proof of concept GPL/BSD/ALv2/MIT classifier (start with small tutorial)</li>
    </ol>
  </li>
  <li>Live code environment (in-browser) to try DSL (XXL for a real version, start with simple env)</li>
  <li>Language modeling
    <ol>
      <li>Guaranteed ALv2-licensed training models</li>
      <li>Blessed chat/code recs</li>
    </ol>
  </li>
  <li>Look at OpenNLP for tokenizing and other processing</li>
  <li>New embedding similarity job</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="project-management">Project management</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Previous vote on PMC involvement passed: https://lists.apache.org/thread/stv6jjjx72gmgs3pg7lvwf1wmngmtnbs</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="summary-and-next-steps">Summary and next steps</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Continue monthly community calls</li>
  <li>Complete JIRA focus</li>
  <li>Get travis migration done, nightlies running</li>
  <li>Push 14.2 out</li>
  <li>Reach out to formerly active project members</li>
  <li>JIRA ranching</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>The Apache Software Foundation</name><email>dev@mahout.apache.org</email></author><category term="minutes" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Monthly community call]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Meeting Minutes</title><link href="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/07/26/Meeting-Minutes.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meeting Minutes" /><published>2023-07-26T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-07-26T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/07/26/Meeting-Minutes</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://mahout.apache.org//minutes/2023/07/26/Meeting-Minutes.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="monthly-community-call">Monthly community call</h2>

<h3 id="attendees">Attendees</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Andrew Musselman</li>
  <li>Trevor Grant</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="intros">Intros</h3>
<p>We caught up on personal and ASF topics</p>

<h3 id="recap-from-last-meeting">Recap from last meeting</h3>
<ol>
  <li>No material progress</li>
</ol>

<h3 id="jira-focus">JIRA focus</h3>
<ol>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2152">Web site check</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2153">Download page improvements</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2154">Update NOTICE</a></li>
  <li>In progress: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2149">Migrate off Travis</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2156">Add “how to do your first JIRA” notes</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2157">Add “first ticket” tag or type in JIRA</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2159">Add Docker instructions to nav</a></li>
  <li>Assigned: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2165">Docker image for web site build</a></li>
</ol>

<h3 id="release-plans">Release plans</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Aug: 14.2, point release with minor improvements and new build system</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="ideas">Ideas</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Quantum computing (IBM and Honeywell have free-tier APIs) XXXL</li>
  <li>Python bindings for DSL (XXXL)</li>
  <li>Automating or maintaining Docker images (XL, including docs)</li>
  <li>New parsing and processing modules
    <ol>
      <li>Proof of concept blockchain data and metadata (XXL)</li>
      <li>Proof of concept GPL/BSD/ALv2/MIT classifier (start with small tutorial)</li>
    </ol>
  </li>
  <li>Live code environment (in-browser) to try DSL (XXL for a real version, start with simple env)</li>
  <li>Language modeling
    <ol>
      <li>Guaranteed ALv2-licensed training models</li>
      <li>Blessed chat/code recs</li>
    </ol>
  </li>
  <li>Look at OpenNLP for tokenizing and other processing</li>
  <li>New embedding similarity job</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="project-management">Project management</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Previous vote on PMC involvement passed: https://lists.apache.org/thread/stv6jjjx72gmgs3pg7lvwf1wmngmtnbs</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="summary-and-next-steps">Summary and next steps</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Continue monthly community calls</li>
  <li>Complete JIRA focus</li>
  <li>Get travis migration done, nightlies running</li>
  <li>Push 14.2 out</li>
  <li>Reevaluate timeline of ideas later this quarter</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>The Apache Software Foundation</name><email>dev@mahout.apache.org</email></author><category term="minutes" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Monthly community call]]></summary></entry></feed>