A bit of Midgard community history

There is now a list of Midgard release names available together with explanations.

As the release names have marked significant events in the community, listing them gives some sense of the history of the project.

Some excerpts:

Midgard 1.0 Land Rover series

The first public release of Midgard was named after the 1962 Land Rover jeep of Eero af Heurlin that Midgard originators Jukka Zitting and Henri Bergius used on several trips, and which always broke and needed to be pushed from places. The Land Rover also had its own theme song.

Midgard 1.5 Biergarten series

The 1.5 series were named after the famous Biergartens of Munich, the city where the summer 2003 Midgard developer meeting was held.

1.7alpha1 Leoni & Akseli

The release was named after Leonie and Akseli, the newborn children of Midgard developers Daniel Reichenbach and Henri Kaukola.

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