Quake Expo 2011

by **Spirit** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:56 pm

This year is Quake's 15th birthday, so obviously a QExpo has to be happening.

This is an incredible chance to expose our community/-ties to the "outside world". This could be a main goal. Find all smaller communities (local or niche), make them more visible to the world. Introduce people to Quake as it is today (and with that I do not mean wood textures that glow in the dark or models that make Michael Jackson look black).

Date:
We should find out what "the internet" uses as birthdate for Quake so we have it running by then. A lot of sites will post about Quake being 15 years old so we want to have them link to QExpo in the same breath.

Hosting:
We should use the quakeexpo.com domain. I guess Echon is still controlling it?
We should not use a third-party forum.

If no-one steps up to provide hoster-agnostic (ie not branded with one specific site/community), I would volunteer to rent a server/space for the month. Afterwards we shall make the site static and provide an archive right away.

Special Projects:
Can we interview more of the original developers? I tried to get through to Trent Reznor but had no luck. Collect questions from the community?
Bombard Youtube with Quake videos?

What do you think?

by **Chip** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:24 pm

Great idea! If Echon is available, the expo should be hosted with quakeexpo.com. We should also use this forum, maybe a special category, Quake Expo 2011 (obviously), and yeah, good idea with other sites linking.

Regarding the Youtube videos, again a good idea. Past expos only used text and images, we should add movies, too, be it Youtube, Vimeo or anything else.

by **frag.machine** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 8:01 pm

Let's ask Romero to make a map.

by **OneManClan** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:27 am

by **r00k** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:39 am

by **scar3crow** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:04 am

June 22 is the shareware release, granted the shareware is excellent, so that is a perfectly valid one. QExpo06 was centered around July 22 which was the registered release.

If I become unhomeless, I can try reaching out to some of the original developers. Also, jehar may be a good asset to create some non-text content for it.

by **leileilol** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:13 am

by **Spirit** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:24 am

by **Chip** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:15 pm

by **GiffE** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:03 pm

by **CocoT** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:06 am

by **r00k** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:46 am

by **MasterSplinter** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:36 am

by **Spirit** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:01 pm

by **necros** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 6:39 am

hey, just wondering if anything was happening on the qexpo front for this year.

i only ask because i have a couple of things for sure that i can release soonish, but i'd rather save them for a qexpo if there is one. it's been ages since i've had stuff to release during one that was new and not old left-over stuff.

maybe it's a little early?

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