Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Awards Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Awards The Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Awards, named after the founder of modern Japanese haiku, were established on the principles set forth in the Matsuyama Declaration, adopted at the Shimanamikaido '99 Haiku Convention in Matsuyama held in September 1999. The establishment of this award attracts people's attention to Masaoka Shiki as a globally recognized poet and to haiku as a short form of world poetry. The Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Award is awarded to people who have made the most remarkable contribution to the development and the raising awareness of the creativity of haiku regardless of
Haiku Depot comments. It also helped with evaluating the stability of packages and assigning them to respective repositories. A small group of developers was formed to tackle the task of designing and implementing the web application.<ref name=https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/bonefish/2013-09-28_package_management_goes_live Haiku Depot Haiku Depot is the native package manager for the Haiku operating system which was integrated into Haiku after its "R1A4" release. Most applications on Haiku now run from their packages but are virtualised as virtual directories on the Be file system. Haiku Depot is the GUI Package Manager for Haiku. It can be compared with Ubuntu Software Center, or similar software repositories. It