adib: Anything on the side of organising or running really. Not projects but the admin stuff. Maintaining website, posting news, spreading them etc.

dumbtruck: Sorry, that was specific project stuff. That's much more relaxed. I will get back to you at some point =) 

I think I'm going to be doing a 20 video series where I pick *my favourite* level from each year, with the 20th video going live on Quakes birthday.

That is the plan anyway, that's a lot of videos to make! 

That would be great! 

Better to have something like Best of 5 or so. Feasability depends on what you're going for, though - actual CG or just fly-throughs. 

https://bitbucket.org/A_A_S/cute-injector

It uses Qt/C++, has BSD license, crossplatform (at least it compiles and runs on windows and osx). No binaries ATM, sorry.
Bugfixes and pull requests are welcome.

It can search&sort the database, show info&dependencies for map archives, download&extract them from the quaddicted, run maps listed in an archive (in quaddicted xml actually), show about dialog.

It needs dependency resolution, uninstall routines, an icon, and maybe installed/downloading tracking to be on par with quakeinjector.

Then it's up to Spirit&Co to add some nice stuff to quaddicted so the software could use that (like rating maps from the client or filtering maps you not rated yet, and quake://archive/mapname/ URLs).

ETA of feature complete beta is autumn/winter 2016, I need some time to get bored with the new doom.

If I can't pull this off by that date then "when it's done" is a pretty accurate release date. 

Better to have something like Best of 5 or so

Or even 10. It would be nice to have a year in review video where you speak about the most memorable levels of that year, showing footage and speaking about the highlights of each level, not just a simple playthrough the whole level. One level for each year is really not enough to see the whole picture of 20 years of quake mapping scene. 

That would be an unrealistic amount of work, considering how long even a single CG video takes. And then 20 videos with 200 maps? Part of the reason I suggested fly-throughs like in the intro to each CG episode rather than full reviews.
Hardest part is deciding which maps to use, of course.

AAS: Nice one. 

What would be nice, but equally unrealistic, is a redesign of Quaddicted to be less quirky and hacky and more slick and streamlined/userfriendly. And less pink!
Not only the frontpage, also and especially the map list which, right now, is quite a mess. 

No, quirkyness is good. The pink is equally good. Don't make it look like ever other site.

What I would agree with though is some polish in the presentation of the front page. More and bigger images. More distinct text areas so people would faster see what is what. 

And then 20 videos with 200 maps? Part of the reason I suggested fly-throughs like in the intro to each CG episode rather than full reviews.

Yep, that was what I meant - 3-5 minutes per map in each video.

Not only the frontpage, also and especially the map list which, right now, is quite a mess.

True, at least the default sorting should be by release date. 

Agree that default sort should put newest maps on top 

Quaddicted is half self-written, half wiki. The self-written part is FOSS and patches are welcome: https://github.com/SpiritQuaddicted/Quaddicted-reviews

Not as unrealistic as you think but I have too many things to do in Quake world so I rather focus on other stuff. The bad usability and publicity of Quake is a bigger problem than Quaddicted's quirkiness. 

That is bloody wonderful, even though it's C++! ;)

If you want I could upload the original design document somewhere.

Ah yes, a proper API. To-do list #42 or something. :( These days I would really like to give up the website stuff and focus on the archives. We badly need more web developers in our community. 

Oh, it would be nice to see other's ideas in easy-stealing form (: 

http://pastebin.com/Wc08hQ6e gone in a day. This is verbatim gibberish from 7 years ago, take what makes sense (probably not much). 

Since I wouldn't want to organist it all myself, I have decided that I am not organizing QExpo 2016. I will work on my own projects and that's it.

I offer hosting (OpenVZ container) and pointing the domain somewhere (not for "QIN" for obvious reasons). You will have to show me a proper plan and "architecture". Otherwise I will simply put up archives of the old QExpos at the domain and that's it. 

But I understand. 

So it looks there won't be any Qexpo2016... sigh
However I don't know if could have finish my works for that date :) 

it's a lot of work, definitely not something i would want to do.

i'll still try to get something out around june though... 

+100 to Spirit

I think Spirit does more than enough already. 

 

Do you still help him out, I take it? 

He 'assists' me 'manually as we say in Germany. ;););)

I have 3 of the good old rusty Quake runes left if someone wants to run contests. 

A prize for past offenders if they manage not to put URLs in post titles for one year?

Seriously though, it's a damn shame that the community is not going to do some coordinated events for Quake's anniversary. Maybe it doesn't have to be something as ambitions as a QExpo. I'm still down for TB2 release in June, and it appears that others are doing stuff also. Maybe we can do something smaller that causes less work for everyone? In the very least, we could set up a blog that highlights the anniversary related stuff that's happening. 

I vote we make a chain episode, nothing hyper detailed.

I have a few maps that are finished for my episode that I can contribute.

I also have a couple of big maps that should be done for the quake anniversary