Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:28:46 +0300
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
To: Midgard Developer Team <midgard@greywolves.org>, lwn@lwn.net,
Subject: MWS for 11th of August, 1999 (#11)

Greetings!

This has been another busy week with lots of
things going on around Midgard. While there isn't
that much to announce this week, there will surely
be in the following few weeks.

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Second beta for Midgard 1.2

Jukka Zitting announced Midgard release
1.2 beta 2 on 6th of August.

This release includes lots of cleaning
up in the Midgard code base and should
work with the iODBC libraries. There are
still some unsolved issues with unixODBC
and Jukka hopes for debugging help to get 
it working.

Although the release uses ODBC it still 
doesn't quite work with other databases
than MySQL. Jukka's opinion now is that we
will first release the version 1.2 and after
that work on getting other databases supported
and release patches for those when they are
done.

Of course help in this section could 
enable us to support other databases earlier. 
Many have requested Oracle or Postgres 
connectivity for Midgard. Are there any 
people experienced in them who could help 
Jukka with this? Please contact the Midgard
mailing list if you are interested.

The second beta of Midgard 1.2 can be found
at:

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1139.html

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Update on documentation projects

The work of the Open Source Writer's Group
with Midgard is now starting to bear fruit. Many
have volunteered to work with Midgard's 
documentation, and I believe we will start seeing
some results soon. There are now actually more
people working on the documentation than there are
working with the code, which is of course just
as it should be.

First results are now showing. Eddie Azman's
Installation Guide announced in last MWS has now
been added to Midgard's site and will be the 
starting point of our larger Getting Started
guide. The work on that continues and people
interested in helping should contact either
Eddie (ea118@yahoo.com) or Craig 
(csprout@wtp.net).

We also have now a team page showing
current members of the Documentation Team.
If you are interested in doing some documentation
work or are already contributing to it, please
contact me so we can get you added.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/group/15.html

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Looking for artists

The Midgard Project's graphics designer Janne
Puonti will be attending civil service for the
next year and so will be quite unable to work
on Midgard's graphics projects.

Because of this we are now looking for some
designers with experience in Web (and possibly
also print) graphics.

We mostly need new promotional material (banners,
buttons, etc.) and some UI elements, but also
at times it would be nice to have graphics showing 
some finer elements of Midgard's architecture and 
usage.

If you are interested in volunteering, please
contact me by email (Henri.Bergius@iki.fi) and 
tell about your graphics skills and the amount
of time you could be putting into these projects.

Thanks to Janne for working with us all this
time, and hopefully also in the future.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/person/118.html

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Upcoming demo server

In MWS #3 we were asking for someone to host
a demo server for us. Now Midgard developer 
Emile Heyns has volunteered to create the 
service.

The idea is to have a Midgard server running
in PHP safe mode with the Admin and Example
sites that users can modify freely. All 
modifications will then be cleaned regularly to 
keep the service usable, but otherwise it will be
kept easily accessible so that Web developers
interested in Midgard can learn about its
usage.

The service should be available in next few
weeks.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1016.html

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About Midgard

Midgard is a freely-available Web application 
development and publishing platform based on 
the popular PHP scripting language. It is an 
Open Source development project, giving you the 
freedom to create your solutions in an open 
environment. Midgard is the tool for creating, 
modifying and maintaining dynamic 
database-enabled web services.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org

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About MWS

The Midgard Weekly Summary is a newsletter 
for the Midgard user and developer community.

The MWS is currently being distributed in
following mediums:

 -The Midgard Project's Web site
   -> http://www.midgard-project.org

 -Linux Weekly News
   -> http://www.lwn.net

 -Linux Developer's Network
   -> http://linuxdev.net

 -Midgard mailing list

If you would like to release it elsewhere,
please contact Henri Bergius 
(Henri.Bergius@iki.fi).

Previous issues of Midgard Weekly Summary can 
be found archived at the Midgard web site.
  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/169.html

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/Bergie
-- 
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