This is just my 2c, so don't think I'm trying to flame you or anything.
OpenOffice integration would be nice but for my needs a simple fast admin interface ranks much higher. One that includes integration of a good templating system and an editor that supports restricted functionality with CSS. From there I can build the custom GUIs that control the content editor's interaction with the project. Sure Plone and Co. have more widgets than you can poke a stick at but Midgard's strength needs to be in it's extension of PHP, and that facilitating an ablity to 'play nice' with other applications.
Midgard's like the frame of a car, it has wheels and a steering column so you can drive it off the lot, but when it comes to getting it race ready you choose the best third party solutions. Chances are the average user is going to decide they need better wheels after the first couple of races but that doesn't mean we have to reinvent ours. When thinking of devoting time to prepackaged addons the question needs to be do these things needs to be welded on to the frame or will a screw do it. Polls and Wikis are devoted to different kinds of data and as Pascal said there are some _really_ good ones out there already. To tell you the truth, even if there where a Midgard Wiki (TM) I'd still use TikiWiki. The two things are used for handling different kinds of data. Wiki content is open to the public and constantly changing. Midgard content is a strictly controlled publication, the user rights, Aegir staging server etc. are all there to make sure you can depend on the editorial integrity of what's been written/published by the editorial department. For me there's no cross over. Same with polls. Why would I need to keep my poll data in Midgard?
I'm a user not a loser. I don't need the whole thing to run out of the box, in fact I don't even want it too. You can't charge people a decent development/consulting fee for installing Post Nuke when their 13 year old son has already done it. Optional, flexible, customisation by me the 'professional' for end users, who see nothing more than their custom interface which is composited from Midgard and other 'best of breed' products, is where I want to be with Midgard.
If someone wants to build a Midgard wiki, then good luck to them, but I'd thank that person a lot more for a better multilingual admin, or a 'how to intergrate your third pary widget' tutorial.
Tony
P.S. Thanks for the advice on my Aegir 1.0 installation finally got it sorted :D
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