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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.
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.


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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The official drink is a [[Better Martini]]. Just in case you were wondering.
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, [https://www.facebook.com/groups/168159947361 the Convergence Facebook group], the [http://community.livejournal.com/convergence/profile Convergence LiveJournal Community], it rough order of officialness. During the event, and for a small window around it, [http://twitter.com/convergtwit ConvergTwit] twitter account is used for communication of changes in locations and schedules, calls for public aid, ad hoc events, etc.
Communication about convergence officially happens on [[alt.gothic]], the [[Afterglow]] mailing list, and the [http://community.livejournal.com/convergence/profile Convergence LiveJournal Community], it rough order of officialness. During the event, and for a small window around it, [http://twitter.com/convergtwit ConvergTwit] twitter account is used for communication of changes in locations and schedules, calls for public aid, ad hoc events, etc.


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===Future Convergence===
===Future Convergence===
The [[C26 | Convergence XXVI]] vote was won by the Kentucky bid [http://www.altgothic.com/c26sdf].  
[[C18 | Convergence XVIII]] will take place in [http://www.altgothic.com/c18buf/ Buffalo, NY] mid-June 15-17, 2012. Coincidentally, that means it starts on [[Axel]]'s birthday, You should buy him a [[Better Martini | drink]]


The event is being postponed until the pandemic is under control because we are sensible people.


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


===Usenet - why do we still use it?===
Updates will posted on [news:alt.gothic alt.gothic].
 
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:
 
# 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.
 
 
===LiveJournal===
 
the [[https://convergence.livejournal.com/ Convergence Livejournal group] was very popular in it's time. [http://altgothic.com/convergence_lj.pdf here] is a PDF of it as of 2022-04-30.


===Previous Convergences===
===Previous Convergences===
*[[C25 | Convergence XXV - Boston, MA]]
*[[C17 | Convergence XVII (Cozumel Mexico]]
*[[C24 | Convergence XXIV - Detroit, MI]]
*[[C16 | Convergence XVI (Park City, UT)]]
*[[C23 | Convergence XXIII - Dallas, TX]]
*[[C15 | Convergence XV Queen Mary Hotel (Long Beach, CA)]]
*[[C22 | Convergence XXII - New Orleans, LA]]
*[[C14 | Convergence XIV - Ybor City (Tampa)]]
*[[C21 | Convergence XXI - Hollywood, CA]]
*[[C13 | Convergence XIII - Portland]]
*[[C20 | Convergence XX - Chicago, IL]]
*[[C12 | Convergence XII - New Orleans]]
*[[C19 | Convergence XIX - Austin, TX]]
*[[C11 | Convergence XI - San Diego]]
*[[C18 | Convergence XVIII - Buffalo, NY]]
*[[C10 | Convergence X - Chicago]]
*[[C17 | Convergence XVII - Cozumel, Mexico]]
*[[C9 | Convergence IX - Las Vegas]]
*[[C16 | Convergence XVI - Park City, UT]]
*[[C8 | Convergence VIII - Montreal]]
*[[C15 | Convergence XV - Long Beach, CA]]
*[[C7 | Convergence VII - New York City]]
*[[C14 | Convergence XIV - Ybor City (Tampa), FL]]
*[[C6 | Convergence VI - Seattle]]
*[[C13 | Convergence XIII - Portland, OR]]
*[[C5 | Convergence V - New Orleans]]
*[[C12 | Convergence XII - New Orleans, LA]]
*[[C4 | Convergence IV - Toronto]]
*[[C11 | Convergence XI - San Diego, CA]]
*[[C3 | Convergence III - San Francisco]]
*[[C10 | Convergence X - Chicago, IL]]
*[[C2 | Convergence II - Boston]]
*[[C9 | Convergence IX - Las Vegas, NV]]
*[[C1 | Convergence I - Chicago]]
*[[C8 | Convergence VIII - Montreal, QC]]
*[[C7 | Convergence VII - New York City, NY]]
*[[C6 | Convergence VI - Seattle, WA]]
*[[C5 | Convergence V - New Orleans, LA]]
*[[C4 | Convergence IV - Toronto, ON]]
*[[C3 | Convergence III - San Francisco, CA]]
*[[C2 | Convergence II - Boston, MA]]
*[[C1 | Convergence I - Chicago, IL]]


==Other Convergi==
==Other Convergi==
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==Links==
==Links==
[[User:Siobhan | Siobhan]] had a reasonable summary of many Convergences [http://www.virulent.org/converg4/past.html on her website].
[[User:Siobhan | Siobhan]] has a reasonable summary of previous Convergences [http://www.virulent.org/converg4/past.html on her website].
But then A Bad Thing happened, and all the data was lost forever.
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