Meeting Minutes

Weekly community meeting

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Attendees

• Andrew Musselman
• Tommy Naugle

Old Business

• Make ticket to add notebooks to notebooks directory in source tree
• Splitting Mahout project code into discrete repos (andrew)
  • mahout-website
  • mahout-classic
  • mahout-samsara
  • mahout-qumat
• Docker image for web site build (to jowanza)
• Next steps for qiskit and cirq back ends (sub-tasks created)
• Roadmap
  • Q2
    • Classic in maintenance mode (done)
  • Q3
    • Qumat with hardened (tests, docs, CI/CD) cirq and qiskit backends (in flight)
    • Kernel methods (in flight)
    • Submit public talk about Qumat (accepted, Fossy Aug 2024)
    • Amazon Braket (done)
  • Q4 and beyond
    • Distributed quantum solvers

New Business

• Notebook Testing (#454) (replaces add notebooks to notebooks directory in source tree (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2198))
• Add GitHub Project
• Add “talks” page to web site (for Andrew)
• Move to Discord instead of Slack
• PyPi release for QuMat
• Tommy has picked up kernel methods spike (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2200) now https://github.com/apache/mahout/issues/456
  • https://github.com/apache/mahout/issues/457
  • https://github.com/apache/mahout/issues/458
  • https://github.com/apache/mahout/wiki/Data-Encoding-and-Kernel-Notes