It's Official -- ConJose is Dead
Sep. 17th, 2005 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeI'm posting this from the meeting room in the Fremont/Centerville Train Station where SFSFC has just finished up a special meeting to deal with several issues that needed to be resolved before our next regular meeting in November. One thing that wasn't urgent but which we bundled into the meeting was the final action of ConJose. The last bits of official reports of the 2002 Worldcon and dealing with the remaining assets (money) were being managed by the ConJose Asset Management Committee. I, representing CJAM, presented ConJose's final report to WSFS this year. ConJose has done everything required of it by WSFS; all of the WSFS-reportable funds of ConJose have been spent or accounted for; and ConJose has no further WSFS responsibilities, so SFSFC officially discharged the CJAM Committee.
This means that after nine years and two months (the 2002 bid committee was formed in July 1996), SFSFC no longer has a committee that is either bidding for a Worldcon, operating a Worldcon, or managing the clean-up after a Worldcon. Hooray!
This means that after nine years and two months (the 2002 bid committee was formed in July 1996), SFSFC no longer has a committee that is either bidding for a Worldcon, operating a Worldcon, or managing the clean-up after a Worldcon. Hooray!
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Date: 2005-09-17 09:23 pm (UTC)How long will it last...
Date: 2005-09-18 12:02 am (UTC)It could be a relaxed affair, too; remember, you don't have to do anything more than have site selection for 2010 and a Westercon business meeting. Chill out and soak in the jacuzzi for a weekend.
There are all sorts of intriguing implications to a Bay Area in 2008 Westercon bid, methinks....
(Seriously, congratulations on retiring the CJ project. Closure!)
Chaz
Slowly I Turn...
Date: 2005-09-18 01:01 am (UTC)Seriouly, I've been discouraging Worldcon and Westercon bid talk on the board for some time now. I'm pretty sure there are some people who are gung ho out there, but I think it would better to work on some other things. I know we had very little time between the closure on ConFrancisco and the launch of the 2002 bid. I hope that the changes in Worldcon site selection make Worldcon bids less of a ten-year commitment than the 1993 and 2002 conventions were. I've spent darn near half my life either bidding for, working on, or closing down a Worldcon at a high level, and it's occassionally tiresome.
Not that SFSFC is completely quiet, by the way: We've announced a desire to host a SMOFCon sometime in the next few years; we're running ConStruction (a Bay Area-focused conrunning convention) and trying to promote more cooperation and knowledge-sharing between the local conrunners; we've decided on a couple of SMOFCon scholarships (I can't say more until after they've accepted, at which time we'll do a press release); and there are some other projects out there that are in the planning or at least muttering about stages.
None of which make me happy to contemplate. I pushed for the changes to the Westercon Bylaws to make it less difficult for northern/central California to host a Westercon, but I did not and do not think that consecutive years in the Bay Area would the right outcome. Of course, if nobody from the North/Central zones files, then the south zone is eligible as well....
Thanks for the good wishes. Closure is a Good Thing.
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Date: 2005-09-18 04:45 pm (UTC)You know what they do to responsible Zaons in *this* timeline? They make them host again!
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Date: 2005-09-19 03:46 am (UTC);)