Hello hardcore AudioQuake community ;-), I'm Matthew; I am one of the two initial developers on AudioQuake, the other being Sebby. I'm writing this email to you but it's from both of us. For the past six years I've been recovering from a major road accident and also working as a researcher and research student; I have had regretfully little time to support the AQ community, though you have all done a very good job of supporting the community yourselves! My studies are finally over now and my recovery is progressing well, so I wanted to write to ask what I can do to open up the community a bit more, if this is wanted or required, so that I can give up control over the mailing lists (and perhaps more), as we did for the code itself several years ago.
This list doesn't seem too active anymore and I am hoping to decommission my mail server, so we will need to find an alternative place to host it if need be. First of all: is there an alternative place for discussing AQ that people are using? Do you even want this mailing list to continue at all? If you would like it to continue, we could host it an Launchpad along with the code, or we could perhaps put it on Google Groups -- or something else I've not heard/thought of. Which would you prefer? I am now looking for a job and continuing my recovery. I will do my best to respond to emails though and aim to do so within a week now, rather than months it may have previously taken due to my arduous recovery from the accident. Once again I have to say that Sebby and I have been consistently blown away by, and are forever grateful for, the reaction to AQ from the community. I'm very sorry that things went the way they did and we could not be involved further; I would have loved to be. Maybe as time goes on, the opportunity to create the next AQ will present itself. I would really love to work more on the Level Description Language so you can continue creating your own maps, but currently life is taking me in other directions. We will do our best to support the community -- or what's left of it -- if you'd like to continue discussing and using AQ, though! All the best, Matthew and Sebby _______________________________________________ AGRIP-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.agrip.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/agrip-discuss
