With QELServ long dead, if people are still interested in alternate EL servers, check out Other-Life.
http://www.other-life.com/forums/It's run by Learner, Radu's associate, but he's committed to a democratic style of server development policy.
I personally don't think it's the best method of development, but nonetheless the project has the potential to be much better than EL.
I've posted some QELServ combat system concepts on the their forums and am as yet undecided if i'm willing to give them more detailed information about combat rolls, creature stats, etc.... but maybe.