I was able to combine the eight separate segments of the Monday 2024 WSFS Business Meeting (aggregate size 21.7 GB) into a single video (4.5 GB) and upload it to my YouTube channel last night. I then removed the eight individual files. So there are now only four files in the playlist:

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Once again, this is not the official video. The 2024 WSFS ( Read more... )

As some of you may recall, my computer started making unhappy fan noises during the Worldcon trip (starting in Iceland) and then would not boot at all. Dell tech support got it so it would boot again, but several days later, and agreed that they would repair it under the extended-warranty plan for which I'm paying, but that I'd have to send it back ( Read more... )

No photos today. Not because I took none, but because as of this evening they haven't all downloaded from my phone and because it takes too long to catalog them ( Read more... )

Glasgow 2024 published the 2024 WSFS Business Meeting Agenda today. I'm glad that we still have a bunch of three-hole-punched paper and that I was able to find a small three-ring binder. The document, including all of the reports and attachments, is 98 pages long. It contains a huge amount of business, including a number of mutually-contradictory ( Read more... )

I am aware that there are discussions of how so "fix" WSFS and Worldcon going on in multiple places. I also suspect that this year's Business Meeting is going to be yet another lesson in The Perfect Being the Enemy of the Good Enough.

The Popular Ratification proposal I submitted is not perfect. It does not solve all problems. There may turn out ( Read more... )

Earlier today, I submitted Popular Ratification Version 2 to the 2024 WSFS Business Meeting. This does not include the comments in the sidebar, or the colored highlighting I used to show what amounts to "Version 2A" but it does include the commentary ( Read more... )

While I'd originally planned on submitting Version 2 of Popular Ratification today, I've been persuaded by a couple of people that there is a potential problem that is worth adding more words to the proposal to handle: what happens if Constitutional amendments conflict with each other ( Read more... )

The number of comments about Popular Ratification has dropped off. I did add commentary to explain the motion. (The Google Doc marginal comments will not appear in the version submitted to the Business Meeting except insofar as they are included in the Commentary ( Read more... )

Having thought over the two versions of Popular Ratification that I've drafted, I am more inclined to submit Version 2. If anyone prefers Version 1, you now have the language that you can use if you want to propose an amendment by substitution. Alternatively, if you want to move the voting deadline to earlier, you can move amendments to the ( Read more... )

When I first submitted Popular Ratification to WSFS back in 2014, one of the biggest complaints against it was that it did not give the second Business Meeting (the one held the year after the one that first passed a proposal) any way to amend the pending Constitutional amendment. So when I drafted what is now Version 1 of the new Popular ( Read more... )