Getting us one step closer to The Gathering 2011, we are proud to launch a temporary site. Go gathering.org/tg11 for all the latest news.

Scene.org Awards is an annual event where the best demoscene productions from the last year are celebrated and awarded. The Gathering has been a proud sponsor of this event for many years, and TG-participants have followed the show over a video link. Next year the event will take place in the Vikingship!

The latest edition of our in-hall magazine, TheNewsGathering is now up for grabs. We offer you a lot of creatively delicious material written by the finest journalists and artists known to nerds.

A greeting from Vegard Skjefstad

KANDU wants YOU to answer this survey to make TG even better (unfortunately, it's in Norwegian only).

If you entered the creative competitions at The Gathering - or if you missed the deadline - and you're looking for more parties with creative competitions, read on!

It can be downloaded from ftp.gathering.org in flac or mp3

Photo: Berge Schwebs Bjørlo

If you were so unfortunate to lose something or The Universe treated you nice and made you find something, please send us an email at info at gathering dot org.

We would like to remind you of our video site, where all the shows and lectures have been uploaded.

The final prizegiving ceremony in the creative compos was held tonight, and TG is officially wrapping up. Read on for a list of all the winners.

The first results from the creative competitions were presented earlier tonight. Read on to find out if you are one of the lucky winners!

We will cut the network at 11.45a.m. and the electricity at 12 p.m.. All participants must be out by 2 p.m..

The latest edition of our in-hall magazine, TheNewsGathering is now up for grabs. We offer you a lot of creatively delicious material written by the finest journalists and artists known to nerds.

Each year, we give some special attention to those in our crew who's helped out for 10 years.

See the complete list of entries in Thursday's compos, along with information on how to vote for your favourites.

By completing our survey here, you can win some great prizes.

Every year, the demoscene hands out its own awards for the most outstanding achievements of the past 12 months. We will be broadcasting the show in cooperation with Breakpoint in Germany in the auditorium tonight at 20:00!

The Gathering has a Facebook fanpage!

You can now follow The Gathering at a title="gatheringorg" href="http://www.twitter.com/gatheringorg">Twitter!

The game development competitions will be held around 10.30p.m. Saturday night, in cooperation with NGA.

Tech:Server are analyzing all sounds, searching for this year's TG-song!

We are approaching the final 24 hours of The Gathering, but boy, oh boy, are those 24 hours going to be great! Click to read about all creative compos, lectures and shows today.

Thursday night we experienced a hypnosis show from the Norwegian hypnotist Henry Leander Andersen. Check out the complete video from the show and see comments from the participants that experienced hypnosis first hand.

This Saturday we're heating up the barbecue and invite all participants to join us!

Raymond "RashiE" Nielsen won the QTOUR Norwegian 1on1 Championship.

There will be a casemod compos at The Gathering this year aswell. The Compo will be held as cooperation between PCWorld Norway and Cooler Master

Event:Productions has released two new videos.

Remember to vote in yesterday's MS Paint and Photo compos. Click to see the entries and voting instructions.

The previous night many of our participants must have noticed that they needed some rest; all sleeping areas inside the ship were full!

Many of our participants have either forgotten their towels or they want to get a new one. The Chillout stand has some awesome looking towels for sale!

The Creative Gathering is not only a place to experience awesome cutting edge artistry and technical achievement, it is also a place to learn new things, and expand on the things you already know. Read on to find out about todays exciting lectures in the Creative Lounge!

Day three of The Gathering is well under way. In addition to compo shows from the main stage, we'll teach you advanced techniques for making music, programming and lots more in the Creative Lounge! See what we have in store for you today on the main stage and in the Creative Lounge.

The theme for this years Fast Intro theme is "Horse", "Guillotine" and "Lace". The deadline is set to 18:30.

Today we kicked off the creative competitions by presenting the first two categories, and attempting the third. Read on to find out more!

In 2009 we weren't able to reach this milestone due to a limit in the network, but Thursday night we passed 11 GBit of data.

For the first time in a few years we had the April Fool's day during The Gathering. Your friends at the Info:Content crew published four untrue articles. Did you get fooled?

One of the sponsors for The Gathering, Spill.no, is arranging four competitions and are giving away prizes for 27,000 NOK.

Do you want to participate in the creative competitions at The Gathering? Read on for important information about how to hand in contributions, and how to vote for who gets the prizes!

After a successful first day of TG, the Creativia crew is back with an update on today's upcoming creativity-related events. Read on!

Follow the stream at http://stream.tg10.gathering.org/.

Photo taken by Steinar H. Gunderson.

The coffee cups will be available before The Gathering is done.

You can watch all the videos produced by Event:Productions!

Today and tomorrow we encourage all participants to watch the QTOUR 1on1 Championship which will take place by the stage in The Viking Ship.

The DotA-compo has been delayed, and the brackets have been reorganized.

The Fast remix competition is officially started, and here is the remix kit. Download it and get started on your remix!

Event:Productions recorded yesterday's biggest events and here's the result.

ChillOut continues the success from last year, and invites you to take a break from your computer both on Thursday and Friday. Come and have a jolly good time in the swimming pool at Ankerskogen! Free entrance and transport.

The University of Oslo, Department of Informatics, will hold two exciting extra lectures in the Creative Lounge; one on Thursday and one on Friday. Read more on the seminars page.

Before this year's The Gathering you were able to order a decent meal through PTN by buying meal tickets.

Berit Skog at NTNU has asked to do a survey on the participants of The Gathering. Unfortunately it's only available in Norwegian, sorry all foreign friends!

The rules for the small HTML competition are announced! Click to read them.

Right after the opening ceremony, we kickstarted this year's The Gathering with a 90 minute show of some of the best demos released here over the years. Read on for a list of the demos, along with video and binary links.

We have just completed our first seminar, and it was a great success, with the Creative Lounge packed with visitors!

This year's openingshow was a completely different experience from previous years. Instead of pyrotechnics, we had video, instead of loud bass music, we had awesome dancing performances.

A shiny fresh newspaper from the first day of this year's best holiday is ready. Lean back and enjoy the latest edition of The Gathering's very own newspaper, TheNewsGathering.

The party is now up and running, and the Creativia crew is busy preparing for today's compos, lectures and entertainment. Read on to find out what's on the creative plate today.

If this was 2009 we would already have maxed our internet access.

Use smtp.tg10.gathering.org as a local SMTP-server.

Even before The Gathering has even started yet, the productive members of the Event:Productions crew have managed to produce four videos, and in this article you are able to get a feeling of what to expect during the party.

An early arrival may be a big advantage as you get the best spot in the queue. Some of our participants have noticed that arriving the day before increases the chance to enter the ship first during the check-in on Wednesday morning.

We often see that the participants leave their assets and other valuables at their seat, which increases the chance of theft. Here are some simple tips on how to avoid this.

Another teaser from Event:Productions.

Have you ever thought about how much the data transferred out of the ship weighs? Well, Chief Tech:Server, Steinar H. Gunderson did the calculations.

Cisco has announced a competition called "MoreTogether" where the main prize is a paid internship.

We have new routines for the check-in this year, and will repeat the old routines for arrival and parking.

The hard working guys at Event:Productions have made us a video from the ship

Magnus Persson, also known as Wolverine, is one of the best and most artistic casemodders in the world, and he's is coming to TG!

As of now, the dinner deal is no longer available for purchase at Partyticket.

Avoid queue – check your PTN account

And you can view the result of a beautiful cooperation between tech:net and tech:server here webcam.tg10.gathering.org

Members of the management team at The Gathering and other key personnel are relocating to "Vikingskipet" in the next couple of days. As we will be quite busy when we arrive, there are made some changes to how you can reach us.

As you know, a portable cooler is a great way to keep your food chilled and healthy at The Gathering. Since you can't use electric ones, you'll need cooler bricks.

This year, like last year, lasers will not be allowed during The Gathering.

We know a lot of you are curious about the stage and it's new location, while we're not yet ready to reveal it entirely yet. We are ready to some pictures and words.

Our guys in Core:Logistics just wanted you to see a couple of pictures from the Vikingskip.

At The Gathering we wish to pay our respects to mother Earth, and in that spirit, we have invited a lot of exciting and good thinking people to attend this year’s event.

Decorate your constructions based on this year's theme!

This years first edition of The News Gathering is out (in Norwegian only).

When you're moving your computer gear, there's always a certain chance that something doesn't go as according to plan.

Important information regarding the arrival to The Gathering.

Curious about who Event:Creativia are and what they are doing?

Chillout and KANDU has arranged for the participants to go swimming at Ankerskogen for several years. Suitably enough for this year's theme, 2010 will be no exception!

Participate with decorations of Vikingskipet by making your own jellyfishes! Follow this walkthrough and do add your own suggestions on the way...

Remember that in order to reach the nearest switch, your TP-cable (twisted pair) must be at least 10 metres long.

The schedule for The Gathering 2010 is out, follow this link to see what you will be doing this easter.

Just like last year, you can apply for a temporary position in the crew!

We are this year very happy to announce that together with WCG Nordic we are hosting the Norwegian qualifiers for the World Cyber Games.

Armed Forces College of Engineering has this year taken the initiative to host the a Hon tournament, with support from the S2 Games!

Great news! Our sponsor Coca Cola is giving away free juice with every breakfast bought in our dinner deal!

"Can i buy the meal ticket at TG? How many participants are there really?"

The wallpapers are ready!

In 2008, The Gathering won the VAT-case. The money that was saved from this will now gain the participants. This year, the internal network of the Viking Ship will be renewed and upgraded with the latest news from D-Link.

Our crew will validate your address and other information when you are checking in. If the information is found to be invalid you will be rejected from the check-in queue.

This year The Gathering will have a delivered capacity of 30Gbit/sec. This is six as fast as the capacity of last year’s event of 5Gbit/sec.

Do you think you're a gaming console expert? Do you have the stomach to take on some of the worlds best gaming console gamers in a 4v4 national final between Norway and the USA?

The Gathering 2010:Submerged is as always a congregation for aspiring geniuses with a wide array of interests and hobbies.

Prime minister Jens Stoltenberg was challenged by Christian Eriksen through Aftenposten to visit the Viking Ship. Unfortunately, the prime minister did not have time for this. To make up for it, he sent us a video greeting.

Another hotel in Hamar has a special offer in store for you.

Petter Northug jr.  challenging the participants to a 2vs2 Counter-Strike match together with the Swedish Fnatics star player Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg. This will take place at the Amentio stand in cooperation with the games equipment manufacturer SteelSeries.

Ever wondered what's going on at The Gathering and you only want to stay for a short while? Read more to find out how you can get access to the party as a visitor!

Why not spend easter learning new creative skills from some of The Gathering's best programmers, graphic artists and music producers? This year, most of these seminars will take place in the Creative Lounge.

By pre-ordering the official TG 2010 mouse pad from QPAD you can win a lift trip inside The Viking Ship, including a photographing, and a QPAD 5K laser mouse.

It might not win any prizes for good image quality, but it is beauty anyway.

As you all have heard this year Ventelo is delivering us a whopping 30Gb/s Internet connection. This will demand much more from the network than earlier years. Luckily Cisco has been kind enough to lend us some kickass equipment.

The nominees for the Scene.org Awards for 2009 were announced this morning. Read on for more information about the awards, the nominees, and how to make sure you don't miss this year's award ceremony.

Are you still wondering how you're going to stay alive during five days of continuous hacking? We want to remind you once again that The Gathering is offering you a ticket for three breakfasts and three proper dinners.

As of tomorrow (17th of March) at 1200 PTN will only be accepting payments made by either VISA or MasterCard.

First Hotel Victoria offers all attenders a special price during The Gathering 2010. The hotel is located in the city center of Hamar, only 50 meters from the train station and 1 km from Vikingskipet.

The gathering is an event with a lot of people and a lot of sound. We've gotten several requests asking if some areas of the ship are more quiet than others, and we'll try to answer this now, as well as letting you know which areas will be colder than others.

If you're still looking for reasons to buy a Creative/demoscene ticket for TG10, look no further! Read about our Creative Lounge, and start planning for an Easter full of exciting seminars, cool people and frantic work to beat the competition deadlines.

The seating will begin the 1st of March, at 6pm CET, for groups of 30 or more. Read on for further details.

Large changes await you this Easter. When you arrive at The Gathering this year, you will find the stage in the middle of the "Viking ship".

This year, competing in our Game Development compo might be just the first step. After competing at TG, take your game further to the Norwegian Game Awards finals and compete for more prizes, fame and glory, and a lot of media attention.

Game competitions have always been a tradition on The Gathering. As Norway's big gather point for computer interested, we also attract lots of hardcore gamers.

We're proud to present the final list of creative competitions for The Gathering 2010, along with the prizes. We try to tweak the prize distribution every year to stimulate participation in the different competitions. Prizes total at over 180 000 NOK this year!

Are you interested in programming? Do you like logic, mathematics and problem solving? In that case, you might be interested in the Norwegian Olympiad in Informatics (NIO)!

Do you fancy sitting next to The Gathering's best coders, graphicians, musicians and other creative souls? All normal tickets for The Gathering 2010 are sold out, but if you'd like to spend Easter in a creative and inspiring environment within sneezing distance of exciting seminars and skilled people, you should know that we've still got tickets left for people like you.

Are you tired of eating eating noodles, cup a soup or whatever food you can prepare in a microwave oven? Then you're in for some luck, this year The Gathering is offering you a ticket for three breakfasts and three proper dinners.

Tickets
At the moment tickets are only available at http://partyticket.net
Private sales are NOT allowed at this point.

We've had a chat with the guys behind this year's invitation demo. Read more about who they are and how the demo was made.

Like previous years, we offer special tickets for members of both the creative scene, and pro-gamers. These tickets require approval, and will be available on partyticket.net from Thursday 14th of January 9 p.m (21:00). A new offer this year is the Nordre Sving meal tickets. With this ticket, you can pre-pay 3 breakfasts and dinners.

You can now choose a seater at partyticket.net.  Note that the final seatmap is not yet up, and the date and time for seating start will come at a later time.

The list of competitions that will be held at The Gathering 2010: Submerged is now released! We hope you find a compo where you can show us what you are up to. You can start working at your contribution at any time in most of the competitions!

Have a look at the complete list here.

Buy a ticket before 31.12.2009 ends, and you can win a Playstation 3. We will choose an winner of the PS3 game console, and this will be handed over at The Gathering.

Tickets will be put on sale as of Sunday the 27th of December 12.00 CET, and you can buy them on partyticket.net

The Gathering is offering two different types of tickets; one included membership in KANDU and one without. What is different? KANDU explains why you should join KANDU!

It will probably seem extra scary to arrive at The Gathering and be all alone. A lot of new people and a high activity level will not make things easier. But did you know that there are other participants that would include you to their group, so that you wouldn't feel so all alone?

Which games we use in our tournaments is always a great and sometimes difficult decision to make. There are a large number of participants at The Gathering, and many of those are taking part in the game contests we organize. This is of course something we appreciate, but our challenge is that we can not always please everyone.

If you have experience with one or more of these languages, you might be just the person Info:Systems is looking for.

Info:Systems is still looking for more applicants. If you think you can deliver that which is demanded of you Info:Systems wants you to apply as soon as possible. Among Info:Sytems’ tasks are the following:

Security consists of three sub crews

• Security: Security
• Security: Medic
• Security: Support

Security is responsible for the safety of participants at The Gathering, and is one of the largest crews.

The invitation demo for The Gathering 2010 has now been released! This is the demoscene way of inviting people to the party. The demo is made by Outracks.

Download the executable version (12 MB, requires DirectX 10) or the video version (241 MB).

If you want to give your feedback to the creators, you can do so at pouet.net or the gathering.org forum.

After having seen "Vikingskipet" dressed in fire and ice last year, we dive under water for TG10 and present The Gathering 2010 - Submerged.

The Tech-crew consists of three different sub-crews:

• Tech:Net - Responsible for the net in Vikingskipet during the easter.
• Tech:Server – Responsible for maintaining the servers, delivering the streams from Event and all the web services for TG (i.a. gathering.org)
• Tech: Support – responsible for the actual wiring of the net, support for the participants and disassembling the net once TG is over.

Core-crew consists of four different sub-crews:

• Core:Core - Responsible for handing of sponsors, VIPs and more
• Core:CrewCare - Responsible for the food to the crew
• Core:Logistics - Responsible for the storage, transport and equipments needed at TG
• Core:Support - Responsible for recycling, cleaning tasks and other things

Event-crew consists of five different sub-crews:

• Event:Activities - Responsible for the stage shows and more
• Event:Arena - Responsible for the stage design, lighting, sound and decorations.
• Event:Creativia - Responsible for the demoscene and other creative activities
• Event: Game - Responsible for game competitions
• Event: Productions - Responsible for visually documenting what actually goes on at TG

INFO

Info-crew consists of four different sub-crews:

• Info:Content - Creates and publishes content for i.e. gathering.org
• Info:Desk - Responsible for the desk
• Info:Press - Responsible for all contact with the press
• Info:Systems - Responsible for most of the systems used by the crew at The Gathering, i.e. wannabe.gathering.org, the Cola-boards and the SMS service

...and get access to the crew area! Maybe you'll understand why the crew is fond of bananas? Wannabe - our system of recruitment of crewmembers is open. In the days ahead we will take a more detailed presentation of the crew, so do not wait too long before you visit us again. Apply for a position at wannabe.gathering.org

The Gathering has a crew ombudsman, Ingvild Myhre, and her job is to ensure that YOU as a volunteer feel good.

Eileén Tennebø has passed the torch to last year's assistant, Lars Petter Johnsen. Here you can get to know him a little bit.

His goal is that everyone will have a good time at TG10.

December is drawing near, and while this means end of year exams, Christmas preparations and the smell of mistletoe to some, it means that the planning of the next TG has begun for others.

The organizers for the party were selected a few months ago, and it was made clear that Eileén Tennebø has passed the torch to last year's assistant, Lars Petter Johnsen.

The general assembly has been held, and the new board has been chosen.

The Board of KANDU are pleased to present the organizers for The Gathering 2010.