Welcome to the Mancoosi blog. What is Mancoosi? Let's start with the basics: you pronounce it /mancusi/ in International Phonetic Alphabet.

Then, the meaning: the acronym stands for "MANaging the COmplexity of the Open Source Infrastructure", and the name already says a lot... we are gathering together researchers and free software distribution editors (both from the .deb and .rpm worlds) to produce a next generation set of algorithms to smooth the upgrade process of package based systems. Some of us already provided quite significant contributions in the framework of the EDOS project.

Finally, some administrativia: Mancoosi is a STREP partially funded by the European Community, in the Call 1 of FP7 Objective 1.2. Yes, EC does contribute to improving free software quality :-)

If you want to know more, you can peruse the Mancoosi website, that contains, in web-friendly form, all the information on goals, partners and background.

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