What you would be working on for QExpo 2008

[Wazat]

I think so!

[leileilol]

I'll have something for it

[Urre]

Yes, but I think what Mauve was asking was, is anyone actually holding it, or is everyone in denial and just happily working on their mods?

[MauveBib]

Yup. It's all well and good everyone getting ready for a qexpo, but as far a I know we have no host, no site and noone running it. Unless someone takes charge pretty soon, it won't happen.

And no, I'm not doing it again.

[ShoTro]

[scar3crow]

[CocoT]

Having someone from Func look over this project would indeed be interesting, it would give it a slightly different twist (and somehow, give them justice, as many mappers have also contributed to the success of QExpo in the past). I agree with you that it has been pretty I3D-centric so far. Now, I don't want to sound bitter, but I'd be of course curious to see if people over at Func, if they had started such an event themselves, would happily give the reign to us, but, hey, it does not mean we can't be open-minded and do it. Plus, there are of course a lot of nice people, there, too. [sarcasm]As long as they don't ask all the mods presented to run on regular quake.exe, I'm fine with experimenting with that[/sarcasm].
That said, of all the people here, if the "moderator" for this event had to come from I3D, you'd be one of my first choices, Scar. It's true the fact that the position went from people to people in the last few years was kind of cool, but, after all, it really does not need to be set in stone. I understand you might feel unsure because of work, though. I would be in absolutely no position to do it myself for similar reasons.

[MauveBib]

There is certainly no set rule that it has to be hosted by different people every time. Having someone host it twice is a lot better than it not happening at all!

[scar3crow]

[Quest]

I suppose the other age old question is allowing booths for quake 2, 3, etc. but I think getting hosting&site should be established first.

[scar3crow]

We have hosting courtesy of Echon via QuakeExpo.com unless he decided to pull the plug for the next expo.

So we need a person to host, and a site design. We can reincarnate the php from the 06 expo if Sajt approves of using it, since it is his code. For a host, I still propose that Jehar do it. He commands a deal of respect amongst the Q2 crowd, and he enjoys Quake and Q3A. He also at one point interviewed Sandy Peterson (about Lovecraft in general).

I guess we should try harder on differing between a webhost, and an event host, because I suspect what I just said was redundant =)

I say allow Q2 and Q3A, they're both opensource, and it Echon is more Q2 than Quake after all, so it would just be rude to not have it. Besides, we've had it the past few expos and it hasn't hurt anyone, and the 06 Expo was extremely Quake focused (logically since it was an anniversary expo).

[MauveBib]

Have you approached Jehar about running it? Do you even know for sure that he's interested in doing so?

I have no problem in principle in him doing so.

Perhaps a joint hosting with someone from each quake game community?

[scar3crow]

[MauveBib]

[Quest]