Weekly minutes

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+title: Meeting Minutes
+date:   2024-08-02 00:00:00 -0800
+category: minutes
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+## Weekly community meeting
+[Subscribe](mailto:user-subscribe@mahout.apache.org) to the Mahout User list to ask for details on joining.
+
+### Attendees
+* Andrew Musselman
+* Jowanza Joseph
+* Tommy Naugle
+* Trevor Grant
+
+### Old Business
+* [Make ticket to add notebooks to notebooks directory in source tree](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2198)
+* [Splitting Mahout project code into discrete repos (andrew)](https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/MAHOUT/issues/MAHOUT-2204)
+    * mahout-website
+    * mahout-classic
+    * mahout-samsara
+    * mahout-qumat
+* [Docker image for web site build (to jowanza)](https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/MAHOUT/issues/MAHOUT-2165)
+* [Next steps for qiskit and cirq back ends (sub-tasks created)](https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/MAHOUT/issues/MAHOUT-2206)
+* 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
+* [Add Braket (Trevor)](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-2213)
+
+### New Business
+* FOSSY talk slides and notebook [Abstract](https://2024.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/265/)
+* Other conferences to target in 2025
+    * FOSDEM
+    * Berlin Buzzwords
+    * FOSS Backstage
+* Automated documentation methods
+* Review of Qumat talk slides and demo notebooks