Fink@Sodan

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.

Reference

• "User-oriented Package Management System" (in Japanese)
• "Unexplored Software Creation Project (Youth)" in 2005 (in Japanese)

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.