Greetings!
Here's a quick draft for a new 'About Midgard'
document to the Midgard site. Please comment.
The free CMS solution
Midgard is a freely-available solution for managing content on web and
WAP services. It is also a toolkit for building dynamic
applications to power eBusiness and Information Management
processes. Midgard has been built and is actively maintained a global
group of software professionals working together in this Open Source
project.
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About Midgard
Midgard is a freely-available solution for managing content on web and
WAP services. It is also a toolkit for building dynamic
applications to power eBusiness and Information Management
processes. Midgard has been built and is actively maintained a global
group of software professionals working together in this Open Source
project.
The software
Midgard is a powerful toolkit for managing online information. Writing
applications and functionalities to the platform is done using the
easy-to-learn PHP scripting language. All interfacing with the system
is done via standard web interfaces, and no special tools are needed
for developers or content authors.
Main features of Midgard include:
- Easy and well documented Application Programming Interface (API)
- Tree-based content storage
- Attachment of meta-data to all content objects
- Multiple levels of personalization
- Replication between servers for clustered environments and staging
- Separation of layout, content and site logic
- Support for editorial workflow and approval mechanisms
- Multilingual support and localization
- Completely Open Source and based on common standards
The requirements
The Midgard system can be run on most Linux and UNIX environments that
have the following software available:
- Apache HTTP server
- PHP4 scripting language
- MySQL database server
- Glib abstraction library
- Expat XML parser
There are included in most Linux distributions. For other UNIX
platforms, please refer either to the software developer organization
or your operating system vendor.
The community
Being an Open Source project, Midgard has gathered around itself an
active community of users and developers. This community that Midgard
is bein continously developed, and will support new standards and
features when those are being required.
The community process provides Midgard users a good level of guidance
and support, and also ways to contribute to the development
project. Because of this, many companies are investing their resources
to helping the community to grow and the project to meet important
development goals.
The Midgard mailing lists and newsletters are a valuable source of
information related to installation, usage and development of the
Midgard system. Also, many active Midgard developers are also
available for discussion using the IRC chat system.
The history
Midgard was originally developed for providing a small Finnish history
association, The Grey Wolves (http://www.greywolves.org) a system for
publishing their material online.
Since the organization didn't have resources to maintain a large
development project by itself, the Open Source model was chosen for
creating a community of contributors to the system. The version 1.0 of
Midgard was released to the public on May 8th 1999. It attracted a
steady stream of users, and the development project flourished.
Since then, Midgard has evolved into a full-blown content management
system, and a toolkit for web application development. It has gathered
an active community of hundreds of users and developers working on the
system. However, the development hasn't stopped by any means, and new
ideas and standards are being added to it on daily basis.
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