WSFS Business: Final Main Business Meeting Summary

The last time that WSFS held a Business Meeting on the final day of the convention was 1992, when we had to hold a "snap election" for NASFiC for the last time before we shortened the lead time for NASFiC to 1 year less than Worldcon. That meeting was relatively short and pro forma. Today's final-day WSFS meeting was anything but that. The meeting lasted 3 1/2 hours. Once again, you'll need to refer to the Sasquan WSFS Business Meeting agenda pages to follow this.

( We Managed to Finish in Time for Closing Ceremonies )

The Final Main WSFS Business Meeting for 2015 adjourned sine die in memory of Bobbie DuFault and Peggy Rae Sapienza at about 1:30 PM on Sunday.

The 31 separate videos that make up the approximately eleven hours of WSFS Business Meetings are now organized in order on the YouTube Worldcon Events Channel 2015 WSFS Business Meeting playlist in lower-resolution form. The video team accidentally uploaded some of the low-res files to the high-res playlist, and the files also got out of order. I have since moved all of the low-res files to the regular playlist and put them in what should be the right order.

There is a higher-resolution playback for which we have some of the files online already. The rest will have to wait until pcornelius, who has been preparing them as his time permits, gets home.

A reminder that of the business passed on to Sasquan, Popular Ratification failed and the other three proposals were ratified and became part of the WSFS Constitution as of the end of Sasquan. We will try to get the WSFS documents updated as soon as we can, but that is likely to take a few weeks as we all recover from a very intense week here in Spokane.

Worldcon Day 5: Marathon Meeting and the End of the Con

The final day of Sasquan saw me spending even more time in Room 300B, site of the WSFS Business Meeting and the WSFS Mark Protection Committee Meeting held shortly after the BM finally adjourned.

( Thoughts on the Business Meeting )

Even though the WSFS Business Meeting was over, the Business of WSFS was not. The WSFS Mark Protection Committee couldn't hold its organizational meeting until after the Business Meeting had adjourned. at 2 PM, the members of the MPC convened in the same room for a relatively short meeting. I was re-elected Chairman, Linda Deneroff was re-elected Secretary, and newly-elected member Bruce Farr was elected Treasurer, replacing outgoing member and Treasurer Scott Dennis. Scott agreed to stay on as an appointed Assistant Treasurer for a transition period. After some more organizational discussion, we agreed to put off most of our discussion to the committee's e-mail list (once I get it reorganized with the new members added and the retiring members removed), and to consider meeting at SMOFCon in Fort Worth later this year.

At 2:45, I was finally done with WSFS business. We stowed our gear in the minvan, I changed my suit jacket and collared shirt and tie for a Sasquan polo shirt, and we made a bee-line for the Exhibit Hall, where I converted Lisa and my memberships to Worldcon 75 to attending. I then cashed the last of my "groats" (vouchers good for food from the concession stands) to get a couple of hamburgers for Lisa, bratwursts for me, and beverages for both of us, after which we headed to the Closing Ceremony.

( Feeling Heroic )

With the convention over, scott_sanford, Lisa, and I ended up going out to dinner at Hill's Restaurant again, after the group with which we'd originally gone to dinner grew so large that we wouldn't fit into a single table at the restaurant to which we'd drifted. We had yet another nice talk with the owner, and as we left, he presented Lisa with a jar of their nice custom spice mix, which I'll be happy to be able to use. He liked having our people here, and we enjoyed eating there.

( The Final Party )

My WSFS Work is still not done. Bruce Farr, Linda Deneroff, and I have to go over to US Bank on Monday and sign new signature cards for the WSFS MPC (Worldcon Intellectual Property, our legal entity) bank account. There's no other chance to do so; it's the only time the three of us are going to be in the same place and with a US Bank branch nearby. Fortunately, Noon isn't the 8:30 AM that our Business Meeting calls have been for, so I'm going to shortly lie down and sleep for many hours without a care, since we don't check out until Tuesday.