Hi, Ted,
Thanks very much. Yeah- I really wasn't sure what this list was when i got the email telling me to reach out regarding swag, I'm glad that I found it though. seems like some good discussions going on here. As far as what we need/want, I'm really not sure, Anything would be great to be honest, I've only done one talk personally at the Orange County Big Data Analytics Meetup; there were about 60 people there. It does seem like a great place to Advertise Apache and of course Mahout. I've Also been invited by the co-organizers of that meetup to do a talk at the Orange County Advanced Analytics Meetup, which i Am looking for the time to do after this upcoming release. So really anything would be great, Thanks alot for the offer. Its really been Trevor Grant and Suneel Marthi that have been doing most of the talks. Recently Trevor did the DFW meetup which is pretty large from what I understand. So yeah I'm not sure what is available, but a little swag goes a long way. Thanks, Andy ________________________________ From: Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 1:53:07 AM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Hello Andrew, I would be happy to help with this directly. What do you need/want? On Jan 21, 2017 4:28 PM, "Andrew Palumbo" <ap....@outlook.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > I sent an email yesterday regarding swag for Meetups, etc to this list, > thinking that it was an Apache list that was devoted specifically to that > type of thing (i was just going off of a comment automatically sent to me > from the last quarter's board report review).. I've noticed several Emails, > and realized that I was wrong about this just being a place to ask for swag > from. > > > So I just wanted to Introduce myself and say hello. I'm the PMC chair of > Apache Mahout. The Mahout team is a die hard group of all volunteer > committers, devoted to distributed shared nothing machine learning, > centered currently around an abstract Engine neutral set of Distributed > Linear Algebra primitives. We're working currently on a release with GPU > and native multithreaded backed matrix operations, as well as to provide > more caned algorithms. We have no corporate backing, which makes it > challenging at times to keep up; most of us work after our day-jobs. This > also makes us flexible and able to answer to no one but our own PMC when > deciding the best direction for the project to go. > > > So I just wanted to Introduce myself, and give you an overview of our > team. The email that I sent yesterday came off more as an order for Apache > swag.. > > > So, Hello, and have a good weekend, all, > > > Andy >
