Wuhu!

What is Wuhu?

Wuhu is a compact, lightweight Party Management System (PMS), ideally designed for aiding demoparty organizers in tasks such as collecting entries, managing voting and conveying information through the bigscreen.

Wuhu was created specifically for the Function party series, mainly because we felt that the only available alternative (at the time), PartyMeister, was simply too large for a party like us.

Our system provides a compact, viable alternative to other such systems. If you don't like ours, you're welcome to try others: Assembly's PMS, Partymeister 1.0 or 2.0.

Parties that used Wuhu

• All editions of Function since 2007 (slightly mutated version with multilanguage support, mainline since 2012)
• Kindergarden since 2008
• Solskogen since 2009
• TRSAC since... not sure, actually (2009, I think?)
• The Gathering "slightly" customized version in 2011 and 2012, mainline in 2013 and 2014
• Riverwash in 2010 and 2011 (slide-system only), full version in 2015 and 2016
• MAIN since 2012
• DemoJS since 2013
• NVScene since 2014
• VIP since 2014
• qbparty since 2015
• Compusphere since 2014
• Decrunch since 2016
• Demobit since 2017
• @party since 2017
• Graffathon since 2015
• Syntax since 2017
• Vortex since 2017
• Datastorm since 2018 (voting system only...?)
• Flashparty since 2018
• NOVA since 2020
• Outline since 2020
• Forndata since 2020
• Mountainbytes since 2023
• ...and probably some more

What does Wuhu offer?

• Scalable performance for parties anywhere between 30 to 3000 people
• Intranet interface for creating user accounts, uploading entries, and voting
• Organizer interface for managing the entire contents of the intranet website, managing competitions and additional tasks
• Wiki-like language for the intranet sites
• Fully customizable web-controlled low-resource beamer system
• Full Unicode support (although in the end, it depends on the fonts you use)
• Support for both range voting (Partymeister-style) and preferential-voting (oldskool paper voting style)
• Plugin based architecture

How it looks

The beamer in action - note how the layout is fully customizable to be either the "classic" Partymeister look or be something completely different:

The admin interface:

Requirements

Optimally, Wuhu requires two computers: A server, and a beamer.

The former is usually a Unix-based LAMP server, requiring Apache 2, PHP 5+ with GD2, MySQL 5.x+ and optionally a nameserver. (WAMP or non-Apache servers might very well work, we never tried.)

The latter is usually a laptop: With version 1.4, Wuhu features a HTML5 / CSS3-based slide system based on reveal.js. The upsides of this system are platform independency (all it needs is a browser) and more flexibility - we're planning on deprecating the "native" slide viewer at some point. If you still want to use that, it runs on any sort of Windows-based computer with really basic hardware acceleration, with the latest DirectX runtimes installed.

If you have no expendable computers, it has been proven that the server may very well run in an emulated environment such as VirtualBox, even on the same machine as the beamer, at the expense of additional load on that machine. (This has been tested to work even with a cheapo netbook, although of course it wasn't fast. A Raspberry Pi might serve well for a party of ~100.)

Features missing and to-do list

• Less redundant / messy code
• Multi-language support has been removed for the time-being
• A couple of user-response things are not as intuitive as they could be
• A number of other small things

Download

Note: If you want to install Wuhu on a blank Linux system, you can use this script to do most of the heavy lifting (i.e. system installation and configuration) for you.

• Latest repository version

After downloading, refer to the README.txt for installation details. You can also refer to the LICENSE.txt if you're totally clueless.

Report bugs and contribute code at https://github.com/Gargaj/wuhu.

Credits and contacts

Wuhu was created and is maintained by Gargaj / Conspiracy.

Additional effort by:

• Zoom / Conspiracy with the original admin design and QA
• Quarryman / Ogdoad for minor fixes
• lug00ber / Kvasigen for additional QA
• The TG Creativia crew for their immense QA effort

We do have a license, even if it's absolutely unnecessary and you'll be wasting your time reading it.

The name

[23:08:15] <GargajCNS> oh and
[23:08:21] <GargajCNS> since you're the maiden flight for the engine
[23:08:26] <GargajCNS> you can pick a name for it!
[23:08:36] <Puryx> wuhu! :D
[23:08:41] <GargajCNS> that's good