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alt.gothic Convergence is the annual party put on by the denizens of alt.gothic for the denizens of alt.gothic and ALL their friends that squishes together hundreds of net.goths from around the globe into a single city for a weekend of socializing, [[booze]], musical events and sweet debauchery.
alt.gothic Convergence is the annual party which was originally put on by the denizens of alt.gothic and has since grown to include members of the myriad Gothic/Industrial online and social media groups it spawned. Hundreds of net.goths from around the globe squish into a single city for a weekend of IRL socializing, booze, musical events and sweet debauchery.


It started out in 1994 when the regular posters on [[alt.gothic]] decided that meeting up was a good idea.
It started out in 1994 when the regular posters on [[alt.gothic]] decided that meeting up was a good idea.
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===Future Convergence===
===Future Convergence===
Convergence XXI will be held in Hollywood, May 1st-3rd 2015. [http://www.altgothic.com/c21hol Visit the website] for more details.
Voting for CXXIV hasn't started yet - put in your bids!  The bidding and voting timeline can be seen [[Timeline#Timetable|here]]


Updates will posted on [news:alt.gothic alt.gothic] and other places.
Updates will posted on [news:alt.gothic alt.gothic], on the book of face, and other places.


===Usenet - why do we still use it?===
===Usenet - why do we still use it?===
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Usenet is old, unloved and barely used. Nearly all the net.goths have moved on to newer, shiny places like FB, LJ, Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Myspace, etc., etc. so you may want to know why we insist on keeping the alt.gothic Usenet group as the official home of C*.
Usenet is old, unloved and barely used. Nearly all the net.goths have moved on to newer, shiny places like FB, LJ, Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Myspace, etc., etc. so you may want to know why we insist on keeping the alt.gothic Usenet group as the official home of C*.


There's two major reasons:
There are four major reasons:
1. History. That's where we started, it's our home. In these days of constant change a bit of continuity is a good thing.
[list]
2. Usenet is a distributed network, not a proprietary website. It can't disappear overnight. The corporation that owns it can't delete the group or prevent people from accessing it.  
# History. That's where we started, it's our home. In these days of constant change a bit of continuity is a good thing.
# Usenet is a distributed network, not a proprietary website. It can't disappear overnight. The corporation that owns it can't delete the group or prevent people from accessing it.
# You don't have to give a corporation private information to access it.
# [[User:Hellsop | Peter H. Coffin]] doesn't have to run a Forum on this website for us to hold the discussions on.
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===Previous Convergences===
===Previous Convergences===
*[[C24 | Convergence XXIV - Detroit]]
*[[C23 | Convergence XXIII - Dallas]]
*[[C22 | Convergence XXII - New Orleans]]
*[[C21 | Convergence XXI - Hollywood]]  
*[[C21 | Convergence XXI - Hollywood]]  
*[[C20 | Convergence XX - Chicago]]  
*[[C20 | Convergence XX - Chicago]]  

Revision as of 13:24, 1 May 2018

alt.gothic Convergence is the annual party which was originally put on by the denizens of alt.gothic and has since grown to include members of the myriad Gothic/Industrial online and social media groups it spawned. Hundreds of net.goths from around the globe squish into a single city for a weekend of IRL socializing, booze, musical events and sweet debauchery.

It started out in 1994 when the regular posters on alt.gothic decided that meeting up was a good idea.

Since then, every year a bunch of people from different cities put together bids to host the thing (I pity the fool...). The bids are then voted on, and the winner gets the job of doing all the work so that the rest of us can have fun (some people have a strange definition of 'win')

Some of the old bids have survived.

Some of the attendees put pictures on the internet. Take a look.

The official drink is a Better Martini. Just in case you were wondering.

Communication about convergence officially happens on this Wiki, alt.gothic, the Afterglow mailing list, the Convergence Facebook group, the Convergence LiveJournal Community, it rough order of officialness. During the event, and for a small window around it, ConvergTwit twitter account is used for communication of changes in locations and schedules, calls for public aid, ad hoc events, etc.


Future Convergence

Voting for CXXIV hasn't started yet - put in your bids! The bidding and voting timeline can be seen here

Updates will posted on alt.gothic, on the book of face, and other places.

Usenet - why do we still use it?

Usenet is old, unloved and barely used. Nearly all the net.goths have moved on to newer, shiny places like FB, LJ, Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Myspace, etc., etc. so you may want to know why we insist on keeping the alt.gothic Usenet group as the official home of C*.

There are four major reasons: [list]

  1. History. That's where we started, it's our home. In these days of constant change a bit of continuity is a good thing.
  2. Usenet is a distributed network, not a proprietary website. It can't disappear overnight. The corporation that owns it can't delete the group or prevent people from accessing it.
  3. You don't have to give a corporation private information to access it.
  4. Peter H. Coffin doesn't have to run a Forum on this website for us to hold the discussions on.

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Previous Convergences

Other Convergi

Convergence has been used as a name for a few other gatherings

Links

Siobhan has a reasonable summary of previous Convergences on her website.