Hey folks, my name's Max.

I'm a 22 year old Computer Science student living and working in Sydney, Australia. I started MUNing back in highschool over 6 years ago. About 2 years ago, I resolved to give something back to the MUN community before I left for good, so that future MUNers could enjoy it as much as I have.

For almost a year and a bit, myself and the UQ United Nations Student Association have been working on the free and open-source muncoordinated.io, a collaborative browser-based MUN committee management app.

Following its official release in July 2018, it's been used at all large-scale Australian MUNs and over 50 other international MUNs. I've received a wealth of positive and helpful feedback, and have been working with directors to make sure that it's as easy to use as possible.

I created it because I wasn't really satisfied with the software on offer. Munrun is old and doesn't run on Macs. ChairMUN is non-free, closed-source, and lacks key features. CloudMUN is actually pretty cool from what I've seen, but it's also a non-free closed-source product, targeted at a Taiwanese audience.

I was also inspired by the amazing Tabbycat project, a draw tabulation system for parliamentary debate tournaments, an exemplary piece of software that combines ease of use, genuine utility, quality engineering, customisation and extensibility, and open-source availability.

Thus, Muncoordinated was built with a few key principles in mind:

• It should reduce director burden as much as possible. Onboarding time should be minimal. Frequent and repetitive tasks should be able to be performed with minimal effort. It should pre-empt tasks, e.g. creating a caucus to discuss a pre-existing draft resolution, with the proposer and seconder of the resolution already queued up to speak, with just a single click.
• It should be free and open source. It should be collectively owned and developed by the wider MUN community, not a single software developer. Individuals, societies and conferences should be free to customize the software to their liking.
• It should be collaborative. Multiple directors should be able to run the committee at once, sharing the directing burden. Delegates should be be able to send data to directors (requests to speak, draft resolutions, amendments) without external applications, like Facebook and Google Docs. Delegates should be able to monitor the progress of the committee if a projector isn't available, from their phones or laptops.

Overall, I think Muncoordinated adheres to these principles. You can can see a full list of features on the Muncoordinated homepage.

Over the last few months, I've added a few major features:

• Resolution attachments

  

• Strawpolls

• More committee stats