From: "Ken Pooley" <kpooley@sewanee.edu> To: "MWS" <mws@midgard-project.org>, <dev@midgard-project.org> Subject: MWS for 3rd of May, 2000 (#59) Midgard User Groups, Linuxtag, Nemein Solutions Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 03:41:16 -0500 Greetings! It has been too long since the last Midgard Weekly Summary and I intend to get back on track, from my end, over the next few weeks. ( I just took the final exam for the Network Engineering class I have been taking…no, I am not usually a student, yes there was LOTS of homework) The last few weeks have been slow on the development front after the rush to get 1.4 and 1.4.1 out to users. But recent weeks have also seen events which bode well for the growth of the Midgard community and the development of the next version of Midgard. Contents: Editor's Note Local Midgard User Groups German Midgard Users get together LinuxTag 2001 July 5th-8th Exhibition and Congress Center, Stuttgart Germany. Midgard at the core of a new business. Ambitious consulting and mobile information solutions based on Midgard. Midgard 2 dev continues as Ami Gangouli moves to Nemein. An update on the state of the project will be forth coming. ---------------------------- Local Midgard User Groups ---------------------------- German language Midgard users have been organizing a user group specifically to serve the German Midgard community. Suggestions have included a German language list-serve. At the same time the new community awareness has led to a number of offers of support for the Linuxtage show in Stuttgart. There is a great deal for the whole community to gain from coherent local organizations; resources for local language translation, local business support as well as the potential for face to face programmer support. Henri Berius has suggested that there could be a place on the project’s website for local information and news, local language documentation and local events listings. ============================ Linuxtag 2001 ---------------------------- July 5th-8th Exhibition and Congress Center, Stuttgart Germany. There is a move to represent Midgard at the Linuxtag 2001 in Stuttgart. The event in general is meant to promote Linux and Open Source projects. The goal of the is to make a connection between comercial concerns and the Open Source community. The Midgard community is close to set to be represented in a floor booth with demo stations. There has been some talk of a presentation or tutorial session. For information Lucia Cosima Eiselstein <LCE@spuk.de> has offered to serve as a contact. The Marc Archive is also a good place to look for the conversation to this point, a link to the archive can be found on the Midgard-project website, or go to http://www.midgard-project.org/article/996.html The Linuxtag web site is at: http://www.linuxtag.org/2001/deutsch/30.html ============================ Midgard at the core of a new business, Nemein Solutions opens its doors. ---------------------------- An ambitious consulting and mobile solutions based on Midgard. Henri Bergius, one of Midgard’s first architects,is working on building a solutions and consulting firm which uses Midgard as one of its core technologies. Nemein Solutions seeks to partner with new media and web design firms to provide those firms with content management functionality that they might otherwise not be able to offer. Namein is working on traditional web publishing, document management and mobile web publishing solutions. At the same time the interests of the larger Midgard community are served by having another strong Midgard solutions developer contributing to software development. One good example of this is illustrated by Nemein’s development and resell agreement with the Hong Kong Linux Center to remarket HKLC’s NADMIN administrative interface for Midgard installations. Nemein already has several customer relationships to look forward to, including development of Stonesoft’s website and an going relationship with Webzone, a Finnish new media developer. ============================ Midgard 2 dev continues as Ami Ganguli moves to Nemein. ---------------------------- Midgard 2 is still coming as Nemein has brought Ami Ganguli on to continue the work he started last summer for Aurora. In the next MWS we will have a status report on Midgard 2’s progress as well as a recap of the goals and priorities for this ground up revision of Midgard. Midgard has always been a project which has relied on contributions from the community and there is sure to be a list of potential projects for those who want to do a little coding. ============================ About Midgard Midgard 1.4 is a content publishing tool for small and medium sized sites. It is based on Apache, MySQL and PHP. The application and its documentation are licensed GPL, LGPL and GFDL. This licensing strategy guarantees that developers, webmasters, ISPs, and business managers are investing in a strategy where they're free to share solutions and participate in the application design. -> http://www.midgard-project.org ---------------------------- About MWS The Midgard Weekly Summary is a bi-weekly newsletter for the Midgard user and developer community, as well as the extended web community. If you would like to release it or publish it, please contact Ken Pooley (kpooley@sewanee.edu). Previous issues of Midgard Weekly Summary can be found archived at the Midgard web site. -> http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/169.html Midgard mailing list. The Midgard mailing list is one of the most vital and visible aspects of the Midgard Community. Questions get answered, suggestions debated and work gets done. E-mail:midgard@greywolves.org ---------------------------- Places to see Midgard in Action: http://www.midgard-project.org http://www.hklc.com http://www.5fthigh.com/ http://www.linuxde.org/ http://www.hec.nl/ http://www.stonejobs.com/ http://www.cruisexcursions.com/ http://www.sewanee.edu http://www.nemein.com/ -More to come ============================