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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.
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Local Midgard User Groups
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	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.


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Linuxtag 2001
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	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


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Midgard at the core of a new business, Nemein Solutions opens its doors.
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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.

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Midgard 2 dev continues as Ami Ganguli moves to Nemein.
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	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.

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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



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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).


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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


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