Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

Loscon does. While it is overseen by the Board of Directors of the LASFS, a new convention chair is elected each year by the members of the LASFS in a bid process. The chair need not be a member of the Board of Directors. That chair decides the theme and chooses a committee. Often it is the same people, but not always. People change positions around from year to year. The committee chooses their staff. The LASFS Board of Directors does very little to interfere with the Chairman's or Loscon Committee's decisions. If it were apparent that the current chairman was doing his/her best to run the convention into the toilet, then the board would step in. So far, I don't believe this has happened. I believe most local/regional conventions are run in this manner. There is no permanant committee, although the committee is drawn from mostly the same pool of people each year. Worldcon is not that much different in that regard. I'm sure Kevin can explain the "Permanent Floating Worldcon Committee"TM better then me. One local exception to this is the Gallifrey One conventions here in Los Angeles. Gallifrey has a permanant committee that rarely changes from year to year. It's a smaller convention and most of us have been doing it for almost 2 decades. We can do it in our sleep now. And often do.