Geert-Jan Besjes

Geert-Jan Besjes is an independent developer whose sole public offering, wxMUN, addresses the specialized workflow of Model United Nations conferences. Built with the cross-platform wxWidgets toolkit, the application provides committee chairs and secretariat staff with a digital replacement for the traditional placard-and-paper system: a single window where delegates are listed by country, speakers can be queued, time limits enforced, and voting results tallied in real time. Typical usage spans the full arc of a committee session—opening roll-call, setting the agenda, moderating formal and informal debate, proposing and ordering amendments, and finally recording resolutions—while optional plugins export printable statistics for delegation awards. Although the feature set is intentionally narrow, the program’s stability and low learning curve have made it a standard fixture at European high-school and university-level MUN circuits, where organizers value an unobtrusive tool that runs equally well on aging classroom laptops and modern conference hall projectors. Because the codebase remains compact and open-source, individual hosts frequently localize the interface or add custom procedural rules without waiting for upstream releases. wxMUN is available for free on get.nero.com, delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always fetching the latest stable build and allowing silent batch installation alongside other conference utilities.