Midgard & Nemein

when an Open Source project and a company evolve together

Nemein

• Leading Finnish Midgard company

• AAA credit rating since 2007

• Annual growth of 15%

• Focusing on CMS, social web, location awareness and multilingual publishing

Midgard CMS

• Enterprise-oriented Web CMS• Staging systems, clustering, version control,

ACLs, geoCMS

Midgard is different

(not just a CMS)

Joint venture between several companies

CMS Watch:

“Hanseatic leagueof open source content management”

Everything started with Vikings

First Midgard companies appeared at the height of the dot-com boom

Aurora (France), Envida (Netherlands), ...

After the boom focus shifted on small companies all around Europe doing business with Midgard

Development coordinated with mRFC specifications, voting procedure, code guidelines and Gatherings

Nemein revenue growth(source: Inoa)

Midgard lines of code(source: Ohloh)

Community means synergy

Community means reliability

...even in unexpected situations

The march to Midgard 2

Content Repository

Common rules for data access

Content Repository

Signals about changes

Content Repository

Objects instead of SQL

Content Repository

Objects instead of SQL

http://xkcd.com/327/

Content Repository

Data model is scriptable

Content Repository

Synchronization and sharing

Qaiku: Microblogging with Midgard

Midgard on Maemo

Conboy can use Midgard as a content repository

Midgard Runtime

• Content repository, server and browser bundled• Use Midgard MVC (PHP, HTML5 and jQuery)

as your GUI toolkit

MidgardContent repository for desktop and the web

www.midgard-project.org

#midgard on Qaiku, @MidgardProject on Twitter