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)

CMS Watch:
“Hanseatic league
Joint of open source
venture content
between management”
several
companies

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

Community means synergy
Nemein revenue growth
(source: Inoa)
Midgard lines of code
(source: Ohloh)

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

Midgard
Content repository for desktop and the web
www.midgard-project.org
#midgard on Qaiku, @MidgardProject on Twitter