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... )

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... )

The site selection ballot for the 2025 West Coast Science Fantasy Conference (Westercon 77) was released this week. Voting will take place by mail at at Westercon 75, which will be held as part of Loscon 49, November 24-26, 2023 at the LAX Marriott.

The originally scheduled Westercon 75 was canceled and its two official functions (Business Meeting ( Read more... )

Chicon 8 posted an updated version of the 2022 WSFS Business Meeting agenda today on their Business Meeting page. Even if you have looked at the agenda previously, I suggest you go review it again. There have been some late arrivals in the reports and proposals, and the business meeting staff has reorganized the order of business in a way that they ( Read more... )

This morning, Westercon 74 published an announcement that there is a Utah in 2024 Write-in bid for Westercon 76, proposing to hold the convention at the Doubletree by Hilton SLC Airport. Go read it for the nitty-gritty details. As there are no other bids of which we're aware, it seems fairly likely that they have a good shot at being selected. Of ( Read more... )

I spend a while this afternoon moderately relaxed sitting behind the Worldcon 76 table.

( Con Table Kevin )

This morning I was up early to help Worldcon 76 co-host the Westercon 70 Con Suite.


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To nobody's surprise but to the bid committee's relief, Portland's bid for the 2016 Westercon was selected to host Westercon 69. The vote count was ( Read more... )