=== Mahout Status Report: June 2010 ===

ISSUES

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

The project continues to target September, 2010 for release of version 0.4.
Recent activity in the project can be viewed here:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?
 pid=12310751&fixfor=12314396&resolution=1

In particular:
- First real support for distributed recommenders has been released

The project has completed migration of mailing lists and website
to mahout.apache.org.

GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE

As part of Google's Summer of Code program, Mahout has begun work
mentoring five projects.
The projects will add or enhance capability in the specific
areas of:

- Boltzmann Machines
- Support Vector Machines
- Singular Value Decomposition for recommendations
- Neural network with back propagation learning
- Eigencuts spectral clustering

MAHOUT IN ACTION

The book "Mahout in Action", published by Manning, continues to be
written and is entering 2/3 completion review with the publisher.