Utah will be hosting NASFiC in 2019 Please note that since there will also be a NASFiC in 2020, you must be a member of the convention in Utah in order to vote for the 2020 NASFiC site. New Zealand will be hosting WorldCon in 2020. Hotel reservations for Dublin 2019 will open on January 9, ...

You can find a copy of the agenda here. Hugo Study Committee report here. 1003: Meeting comes to order. This is the site selection business meeting. 1004: Final committee called up for report. The WorldCon Runner’s Guide Committee. Mike Willmoth speaking. Report has been submitted. Incremental progress continues. There’s a URL from wsfs.org where you ...

MPC Election: Don, Judy, and Steven are elected. Kent Bloom from the FOLLE Committee would like help finding good links to old WorldCon websites that have become defunct over the years. The FOLLE Committee will continue for the next year as currently constituted. New standing rules change A3 Update to Deadlines for Submission of Reports due ...

You can find a copy of the agenda here. Hugo Study Committee report here. 1009: Two minute warning. There is a new piece of business today: A3 Short Title: Update to Deadlines for Submission of Reports. Will change Rule 4.4 and 4.5 to come into line with A2 Deadline for Submission of New Business, which was passed yesterday. ...

You can find a copy of the agenda here. Hugo Study Committee report here. The WSFS business meeting #1 liveblog will begin shortly in this space! I’ll update this post every 5-10 minutes. 1007: Five minute warning. Time for the instructional video about parliamentary procedure! 1016: Tim Illingworth is the chair of this business meeting. ...

This meeting felt incredibly fast and quiet compared to every other meeting. We just ran right through things. A little over thirty minutes from start to adjourning sine die. Retrospective Improvement Part 1 is ratified without debate. Retrospective Improvement Part 2 is ratified without debate. Universal Suffrage is ratified without debate. What Our Marks Really ...

Usual rules apply! 1001: Meeting called to order. 1006: On to the ratification of constitutional amendments still remaining. 1006: Retrospective Improvement Part 1. This is a replacement for retro Hugos. This is to allow retro Hugos for the four year window between the third and fourth WorldCons because “there was a disruption.” “The late unpleasantness.” 1009: Retrospective ...

Summary for the rather short main business meeting, since I didn’t show up until after site selection and the WorldCon Chairs photo. Best Series is ratified. It will continue as a regular category. It will be up for re-ratification in 2021 and automatically added to the agenda. Three Stage Voting fails ratification. EPH+ fails ratification by ...

Sorry to be a few minutes late, everyone. What we missed: By unanimous consent, the word “volume” in Best Series was changed to “installment” to indicate it doesn’t necessarily have to be a full novel added. Now we join our meeting, already in progress. 1108: Dr Farah Mendelsohn for the ratification of Best Series. Basically ...