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Welcome to the wxMUN homepage. Although this page is rather boring and in plain HTML for the moment, it might be beautified somewhere in the future. We preferred to put time in the application, not the website ;-)

wxMUN is a tool to manage Model United Nations (MUN) debates, fully written in C++ using the wxWidgets toolkit. It was written by Geert-Jan Besjes in anticipation for WorldMUN 2009, which was held in The Hague (Netherlands). Since just after that conference, it's been available on SourceForge and used at many conferences all over the world!

The latest release is version 0.40, dated 27 November 2013. Download it here.

Customisation to add new countries, or change to e.g. a set of crisis committee actors, is a matter of editing 1 text file (see below), so don't let yourself be discouraged by the long period without update.

wxMUN is available for Windows (32-bit), Mac OS X and of course also in source code format. No Linux binaries exist (yet! Feel free to provide me a package!), but you can easily compile your own version from SVN or the source code tarballs for releases.

In 2012, wxMUN even made a cameo appearance in Model UN Style, a parody of Gangnam Style!

Downloads

Like most open source software packages, wxMUN is technically always under development, but it should be safe to grab the source code and try to build your own version if you're interested!

For Windows an installer is available. Under OS X, simply drag wxMUN.app to your Applications folder. (Be sure to allow permissions in 'Security & Privacy' in the System Preferences for the app to run!) Under Linux, make sure you have Xerces-C++ and wxWidgets and their development versions installed: compilation should be fairly straightforward and similar to most packages using the GNU build system.

If you want to edit the countries database, look for the file countries.xml and edit it by hand. The location will vary based on your operating system, install location, etcetera. The codes correspond to the filenames used for the flag. Don't go overboard with strange characters, especially in these codes, as you might break things. (It's a lot harder to implement language support than you might think, and not really worth the effort since the entire interface is in English.)

In case you like the program, please support this project! Support This Project

Conferences

Please send an e-mail if your conference uses wxMUN so we can add you to the list! Until now, wxMUN has been used in committees at, among others, the following conferences (very incomplete, judging by the number of downloads, and purely based on self-reporting):

License

wxMUN is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3 .

Questions?

Please send an e-mail to Geert-Jan Besjes, gbesjes [at] gmail.com.