Independent Conferences
Independent Conferences are home to a wide array of conversation topics and of people. They are created and run by individual members of The WELL as they see fit, within the scope of The WELL Member Agreement. Some offer limited access for WELL members by invitation only. Most are open to all members of The WELL. Anyone with a Complete Plan membership may create new ones (as well as unlisted fully Private Conferences) at any time.
Hosts have the final say on entry to a limited-access conference. Their member lists are entirely up to them. For information about joining a limited-access Independent Conference, please click on the “request entry” link to email the conference host.
| CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION As described by its host | SHORTCUT Direct login link | JOIN (Limited Access) |
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| Dedicated to contemporary art and communication technology | acen.ind | ||
| Grassroots citizen activism and organization | activism.ind | ||
| Attention Deficit Disorder | add.ind | ||
| Autocrat of the Periodic Table | aldena.ind | ||
| Amnesty International bulletins | amnesty.ind | ||
| Animation lovers, this is the place to talk about it! | animation.ind | ||
| Japanese animation and the obsessed folk who love them | anime.ind | ||
| Artificial Intelligence | ai.ind | ||
| The Anarchy Online MMORPG conf | ao.ind | ||
| Architecture, landscape architecture and urban design | arch.ind | ||
| Cabinetry of Lust | armoire.ind | ||
| Augmentation and robotics | augbot.ind | ||
| Take off your shoes and come on in | barefoot.ind | ||
| A conference to coordinate and support efforts to help tsunami victims | barnraise.ind | ||
| Bass players, acoustic and electric | bass.ind | ||
| bOING bOING — hangout for happy mutants! | bb.ind | ||
| The new computer operating system from Be | be.ind | ||
| Let's parler about this tiny country, or drift about the BENELUX and other countries | belgium.ind | ||
| Honky-tonk, western swing, vintage country, roots music | bigballs.ind | ||
| Professional biologists and interested observers discuss the data of the day | biology.ind | ||
| If it's bugging you, bitch about it here | bitch.ind | ||
| Sightings from parallel universes | bl.ind | ||
| A repository for data about The WELL | blair.ind | ||
| The BMUG (Berkeley Macintosh Users Group) conference | bmugsig.ind | ||
| Discussion of piercing, tattoos, and other forms of body art | bodymods.ind | ||
| For people who like to read and discuss books | bookclub.ind | ||
| Booksellers and related professionals, online or otherwise (limited) | booksell.ind | request entry | |
| Brilliant ideas, crazy inventions, creative solutions | brainstorm.ind | ||
| *BSD* *nix | bsd.ind | ||
| Let's talk about Burning Man | burningman.ind | ||
| Whatever involves the whole state gets special attention here | california.ind | ||
| Where summer camp and camping in general are discussed ... | camp.ind | ||
| Support conference for persons with cancer or caregivers (limited) | cancer.ind | request entry | |
| Meow! | cats.ind | ||
| The modern music review of digital audio software | cd.ind | ||
| All about chess | chess.ind | ||
| the city of chicago | chicago.ind | ||
| More is never enough! | chocolate.ind | ||
| Food — you gotta love it! | chow.ind | ||
| Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar ... | cigar.ind | ||
| Independent classifieds | class.ind | ||
| City of Heroes discussion | coh.ind | ||
| A place to discuss all types of comedic performance | comedy.ind | ||
| Discussion of the state bird of Minnesota (limited) | commonloon.ind | request entry | |
| Virtual Community Leaders (limited) | community.ind | request entry | |
| Discussion on how computers are covered by print and broadcast media | cpj.ind | ||
| End of the Cretaceous | cretaceous.ind | ||
| Crime and detection, in real-life and in the media | crimescene.ind | ||
| Got questions? Maybe CTHULHU is the answer! | cthulhu.ind | ||
| A place to share and discuss first-hand experiences of other cultures | cultures.ind | ||
| Dark Age of Camelot players | daoc.ind | ||
| Conference for the discussion of relational databases (RDBMs) | db.ind | ||
| For endless cheese pants discussions on a variety of subjects | debenham.ind | ||
| Improving democracy and reducing apathy | democracy.ind | ||
| Freewheeling, friendly zone for discussion of sexuality, eroticism, and kink | desire.ind | ||
| Erotica, sex talk (alternate conference name for desire.ind) | eros.ind | ||
| Diabetes/ics (limited) | diabetes.ind | request entry | |
| Contra Costa, Calif / Diablo Valley reg ional conference | diablo.ind | ||
| Digital doodles — no trees killed — experimental cartoon project | dig.ind | ||
| Artists, musicians and writers working in digital arts media | digitart.ind | ||
| The idea behind the event, the philosophy of the personal | discussion.ind | ||
| Decluttering, Getting Things Done, and otherwise getting organized | doingstuff.ind | ||
| Software development using the .NET framework | dotnet.ind | ||
| A place to record, discuss, and interpret your dreams | dreams.ind | ||
| Economy and ecology. Money theory and history. Alternates. | eco.ind | ||
| For folks on the financial edge. Privacy-protected. (limited) | edge.ind | request entry | |
| edit.ind | edit.ind | ||
| New indie from parts of the original house music conference | electronic.ind | ||
| A place to discuss manners and ask questions regarding The Proper Thing To Do | etiquette.ind | ||
| The place to discuss European politics, culture, and the European experience | europe.ind | ||
| All about the CCP Science Fiction MMOG Eve Online | eve.ind | ||
| For players of Everquest | everquest.ind | ||
| Expatriates — strangers in a strange land | expat.ind | ||
| for discussion of the social networking site facebook.com | facebook.ind | ||
| The outlands of literature: SF, fantasy, speculative fiction | fant.ind | ||
| A place to discuss the pros and cons of firearms | firearms.ind | ||
| Two men enter, one man leaves | flame.ind | ||
| About flickr | flickr.ind | ||
| A conference about fotolog.net | fotolog.ind | ||
| ANYTHING goes. NO neurotic hosting, no bans, no scribbles ... | freefire.ind | ||
| Kellie's fun stuff, come visit! | fun.ind | ||
| A place to discuss the latest in consumer electronics and gadgetry | gadgets.ind | ||
| A place to discuss game design and development | gamedev.ind | ||
| A discussion and tape forum for the Grateful Dead's 1974 shows | gd74.ind | ||
| Tips and talk about genealogy research | genealogy.ind | ||
| Under construction (limited) | geo.ind | request entry | |
| Land, sea, air, and distribution of life on the planet | geography.ind | ||
| A discussion of all things German | german.ind | ||
| Sassy place to discuss disability, get help, wail, crack jokes | gimp.ind | ||
| All about golf | golf.ind | ||
| Come and talk, vent, laugh, stress, scream, and inquire | gradschool.ind | ||
| Express gratitude and discuss the concept | gratitude.ind | ||
| Guild-only discussions among the Everquest guild on The WELL (limited) | guild.ind | request entry | |
| Amateur radio on The WELL! | hamradio.ind | ||
| Everyone has one. This is mine. (limited) | hell.ind | request entry | |
| The Stampede meets The WELL: for fans of Donna the Buffalo | herd.ind | ||
| Do they matter? Are they meaningless? | hits.ind | ||
| A place for stack developers, users, and other things Hypercardesque | hypercard.ind | ||
| The opinion conference | imo.ind | ||
| Understanding interactions: communication, conflict, and balance | in.ind | ||
| Of things Irish/Celtic | irish.ind | ||
| Women training for the Danskin Triathlon (limited) | irongirls.ind | request entry | |
| Discussion about Islam with the writers of New Civilisation | islam.ind | ||
| Israel beyond the conflict | israel.ind | ||
| access limited to attorneys admitted to the bar (limited) | juris.ind | request entry | |
| an independent conference for anyone with an interest in kids | kid.ind | ||
| Got rock? | krakhaus.ind | ||
| Say it loud! I'm left-handed and proud! | leftout.ind | ||
| Discussions of libertarian ideas and solutions | liberty.ind | ||
| A place to tell tall tales | lies.ind | ||
| Lists, catalogs, directories, indices, inventories, rosters, plans, rolls, logs, bibliographies, and schedules | lists.ind | ||
| The lost generation | lost.ind | ||
| Discussion of low-carb eating | lowcarb.ind | ||
| If you have to ask ... | lubejob.ind | ||
| Kill your enemies. Kill your friends. The game of Mafia. | mafiascum.ind | ||
| Pamphlets, periodicals, and publications | magazines.ind | ||
| Hey, you Einsteins! Let's talk math. | math.ind | ||
| The Myers/Briggs Type Indicator | mbti.ind | ||
| Stuff I find interesting | memetic.ind | ||
| Metal working: welding, forging, cutting, etc. | metal.ind | ||
| There's a man at the door. Says his name is Tepoztecatl. | mexico.ind | ||
| Central Coast (Monterey, Seaside, and Salinas bashing at its best) | midcoast.ind | ||
| Sound and music production, MIDI, audio and more! | midi.ind | ||
| Mobile computing: laptops, PDAs, remote access and the like | mobile.ind | ||
| Distributing tapes and discussion of the band moe | moe.ind | ||
| All about money: financial planning, tax questions, best bank-vault tours. | money.ind | ||
| Monkey business, etc. | monkey.ind | ||
| F1 to IRL, Champ Cars to WRC, MotoGP to A1GP, it's all here! | motorsport.ind | ||
| MP3: what's new, what's hot, what's not | mp3.ind | ||
| Discussion of the Mumia Abu-Jamal case | mumia.ind | ||
| Everything about networking you never wanted to know | networking.ind | ||
| A place to discuss modern, now, a-go-go music | newmusic.ind | ||
| News around the nation and around the world | news.ind | ||
| This is the most pointless conference on The WELL | nihil.ind | ||
| A place for aspiring novelists to play | novelistas.ind | ||
| all about nutrition | nutrition.ind | ||
| Discussion of movies from the silents thru the '50s | oldmovies.ind | ||
| A place to discuss Open Source software and the OSS community | opensource.ind | ||
| A place to discuss the optical field | optical.ind | ||
| Watchtower conference looking outward over the net | orthanc.ind | ||
| A conference for user and technical information about OS/2 | os2.ind | ||
| A place to talk about that magical land called Oz | oz.ind | ||
| Conference for pagan and neo-pagan chatter and discussion | pagan.ind | ||
| Personal safety, security, and privacy | paranoia.ind | ||
| About paranormal experiences, thoughts, ideas, questions | paranormal.ind | ||
| Free-falling women (limited) | parker.ind | request entry | |
| All about the perl programming language | perl.ind | ||
| Discussion of rap music and hip-hop culture | phat.ind | ||
| The evil twin of Tips. Or its better half. | pits.ind | ||
| Podcasts: this is the place to discuss your favorites. | podcast.ind | ||
| Poker, America's card game | poker.ind | ||
| Real-world etiquette, politeness, and getting along with others | polite.ind | ||
| Discussion of non-monogamous sexual and personal relationships (limited) | polyamory.ind | request entry | |
| For pond owners and lovers to compare notes and share information | pond.ind | ||
| You are a fuck monster (limited) | porkhole.ind | request entry | |
| From art to culture to philosophy, everything postmodern | postmodern.ind | ||
| Planet of ... THE APES! on The WELL | pota.ind | ||
| Conference for the support of user-contributed software | public.ind | ||
| Quotes! Of all kinds ... | quotes.ind | ||
| A conference to discuss Quartervote.com (limited) | qvote.ind | request entry | |
| The readers circle (limited) | readers.ind | request entry | |
| A place to talk about things as they happen. A speedy conf! | realtime.ind | ||
| Conversation with atheists, agnostics, and those with structured religious beliefs. | religion.ind | ||
| A discussion group to talk about retirement from planning to execution and everything in between. | retirement.ind | ||
| Laid off? Unemployed? Squander your free time here. | roadkill.ind | ||
| Pleasant. Tea, roses, mystery. | rosehips.ind | ||
| The peculiarities and pleasures of "country life." | rural.ind | ||
| Sacramento and the surrounding valley | sacto.ind | ||
| A place for people named SARAH and its cognates (limited) | sarah.ind | request entry | |
| A home for those born from 10/23 - 11/23 | scorpio.ind | ||
| Like to play Scrabble? Word freak? Want to learn? | scrabble.ind | ||
| Try not to be so shy (limited) | scrivener.ind | request entry | |
| Let's go down! All about SCUBA diving, snorkeling, and so on. | scuba.ind | ||
| Security: computer, network and other, with a touch of freedom | security.ind | ||
| sexuality discussion, debate, news (limited) | sexuality.ind | request entry | |
| Samples of my SF writing, Harry Claude Cat's Toon Show, etc. (limited) | silly.ind | request entry | |
| Discussion of ska music | ska.ind | ||
| Life in the Big City | slicker.ind | ||
| For people who smoke | smokers.ind | ||
| The art of creating and managing the ultimate small business | solo.ind | ||
| A whole lot that's red hot (limited) | sonoran.ind | request entry | |
| A place to discuss anything in Spanish, or anything about the language and the people who speak it | spanish.ind | ||
| g spot: it's not hard to find if you know what you're looking for (limited) | spot.ind | request entry | |
| To support and experience the online activities of Sacred Sites International(limited) | ssi.ind | request entry | |
| The world of startup companies | startup.ind | ||
| For stepmoms, stepdads and trans step-parents (limited) | steppies.ind | request entry | |
| Talk about stuff. You know, things. Products. Be a consumer! | stuff.ind | ||
| A conference with a seasonal ulist (limited) | summer.ind | request entry | |
| The joint for swaggerin', swingin', and stylin', my friend | swank.ind | ||
| Star Wars Galaxies, by Sony Online Entertainment/LucasArts | swg.ind | ||
| System Administrators and other IT support folk. | sys.ind | ||
| An independent conference for Table Talkers | tabletalk.ind | ||
| Texas related topics! | texas.ind | ||
| A place to go to get help getting "thinned" down — weight loss (limited) | th.ind | request entry | |
| All thrash, all the time | thrash.ind | ||
| Discussion of time management and other time issues | time.ind | ||
| What if I placed the call from a payphone? | tinfoil.ind | ||
| A collection of links to current topics of interest | topicsoup.ind | ||
| All things Star Trek | trek.ind | ||
| for users of the microblogging platform twitter | twitter.ind | ||
| Write it. Post it. Write more. (limited) | typomatic.ind | request entry | |
| UFORUM — a conference devoted to UFOlogy, and related topics | uforum.ind | ||
| You are reading (or have read) Joyce's Ulysses | ulysses.ind | ||
| A supportive place for discussion of issues that affect minority peoples | unity.ind | ||
| All about Visual Basic programming | vb.ind | ||
| Discussions and support of vegetarian living | veggie.ind | ||
| A gathering place for military veterans, families, and friends | veterans.ind | ||
| Volley, the second | volley2.ind | ||
| The WELL Data Link: a batch access program for Windows | wdl.ind | ||
| Everybody loves to talk about the weather! | weather.ind | ||
| Technical discussions of WWW servers | webservers.ind | ||
| goodston's very own conference | weecottage.ind | ||
| Discussion of weight lifting and bodybuilding | weights.ind | ||
| weird.ind (limited) | weird.ind | request entry | |
| For the ultra-cool people who joined in the noted year 1994 (limited) | well1994.ind | request entry | |
| For newcomers to The WELL in 2006! | well2006.ind | ||
| The WELL Head Central | wellheads.ind | ||
| Our own private corner of Hell | wellhell.ind | ||
| A conference to talk about, learn and love WINE! | wine.ind | ||
| The name says it all ... (limited) | witch.ind | request entry | |
| Confidential discussion of work issues (limited) | work.ind | request entry | |
| Discussion of United States and world events (limited) | world.ind | request entry | |
| World of Warcraft MMORPG | wow.ind | ||
| freedom! (limited) | wowind.ind | request entry | |
| Discussion of successful ways writers have landed assignments | writersmkt.ind | ||
| XML — eXtensible Markup Language | xml.ind | ||
| An experimental conference that lasts for one year (limited) | y2k2.ind | request entry | |
| Discussion about Yahoo! | yahoo.ind | ||
| A conference that will last for exactly one year | year.ind |