Project Description

Our Project, Manta aims at building user-oriented package management system. It will provide various information including software reviews written in his/her mother tongue and rankings of software from different point of views so that it can be of great help for users to find desired software.

Developers

  • Tomoya Yoshizawa -- Project lead
  • Keita Oda
  • Takashi Asari -- Web application lead
  • Yasushi Hikida
  • Shinra Aida -- Algorithm lead
  • Tomoaki Okayama
  • Hiroyuki Onoda
  • Motoi Washida -- Installer lead
  • Mamoru Komachi

Manta in Conferences

We presented a prototype of Manta in Open Source Conference 2005 Fall on 17 September 2005. It will include package search, reviews of packages and personalized list of recommended software.

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Acknowledgement

Manta Project is sponsored by "Unexplored Software Creation Project (Youth)" in 2005. Our thanks to Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA), Japan, SOUM Corporation and Begi.net.