The consortium MANCOOSI (MANaging the COmplexity of the Open Source Infrastructure) is a project financed by European Union that it has as primary goal, creating a solid and flexible structure for handling packages, controller and library in operating systems based on Unix and standardizing the packages dominated by Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) for DEB and RPM.
Among the participants there are: University Paris Diderot, University of L'Aquila, Mandriva/Edge-IT, Caixa Mágica, Tel Aviv University, Pixart, and others.