Midgard is an open source content management system (CMS) that was developed in collaboration between multiple companies. Nemein, a leading Finnish company, has an annual growth rate of 15% working with Midgard. The Midgard project coordinates development through specifications, voting procedures, code guidelines and gatherings to evolve the CMS. It focuses on features like a common content repository, object-oriented data model, and synchronization capabilities. Midgard is used both for enterprise web applications and on mobile platforms.

1. Midgard & Nemein
when an Open Source project
and a company evolve together

2. Nemein
• Leading Finnish Midgard
company
• AAA credit rating since
2007
• Annual growth of 15%
• Focusing on CMS, social
web, location awareness
and multilingual
publishing

3. Midgard CMS
• Enterprise-oriented Web CMS
• Staging systems, clustering, version control,
ACLs, geoCMS

4. Midgard
is different
(not just a CMS)

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

6. Everything started with Vikings

7. First Midgard companies
appeared at the height of
the dot-com boom
Aurora (France), Envida
(Netherlands), ...

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

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

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

11. Community means reliability

12. ...even in unexpected situations

13. The march to Midgard 2

14. Content Repository
Common rules for data access

15. Content Repository
Signals about changes

16. Content Repository
Objects instead of SQL

17. Content Repository
Objects instead of SQL
http://xkcd.com/327/

18. Content Repository
Data model is scriptable

19. Content Repository
Synchronization and sharing

20. Qaiku: Microblogging with Midgard

21. Midgard on Maemo
Conboy can use
Midgard as a content
repository

22. Midgard Runtime
• Content repository, server and browser bundled
• Use Midgard MVC (PHP, HTML5 and jQuery)
as your GUI toolkit

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