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WSFS Papers Updated
Nov. 12th, 2022 01:49 pmThe 2022-23 WSFS Rules Page has been updated. This includes:
Because the WSFS Mark Protection Committee is not a committee of the Business Meeting, but is separate entity directly created through the WSFS Constitution, we removed MPC resolutions from the Resolutions and Rulings of Continuing Effect and created a separate document under the MPC's page on the WSFS website.
Because it does come up as a commonly asked question, even among WSFS "regulars," we also updated the Contact pages on the four "WSFS websites" (wsfs.org, worldcon.org, nasfic.org, and thehugoawards.org) to explicitly state that those sites are managed by the Hugo Awards Marketing Committee of the WSFS Mark Protection Committee, and that I am the lead maintainer. I am not the only person who can maintain the sites. There are multiple people who have the "keys" to the sites. After a very annoying period years ago when it was all but impossible to get anything changed, we do try now to make sure that several people have the keys to the sites.
I'm the person who actually updated the site, and I did assist in proofreading the various documents at the invitation of the 2022 Business Meeting leadership. I thank them for inviting me to help, as they did not have to do so. I have, however, had to bite my tongue at least once by not answering a question directed to the meeting leadership. My own responsibility has been to make sure the 2022 meeting recordings were put online and that the documents certified by the 2022 meeting leadership were posted to wsfs.org in both PDF and DOCX formats (the latter being what the following Worldcon can use to create their required publications).
There is a lot of boring but important sausage being made by various WSFS committees. If you want to know about it, you have to keep up with these updates. It's pretty clear based on the Umbrage expressed after last year's meeting that a fair number of people had stopped paying attention, even when things like the Business Passed On were published on the WSFS site, so you didn't have to wade through a hundred-plus pages of minutes to see what was up for ratification in 2022.
- WSFS Constitution for WSFS years 2022-23 (This shows the changes ratified at the 2022 Worldcon.)
- Standing Rules for Governance of the 2023 WSFS Business Meeting
- Resolutions and Rulings of Continuing Effect as of the end of the 2022 Business Meeting (See below for a change to the format of this document)
- Minutes of the 2022 WSFS Business Meeting
- Business Passed on for Ratification to the 2023 WSFS Business Meeting
- Placeholder for the Agenda of the 2023 WSFS Business Meeting (to be updated later once that meeting spins up, probably starting in July 2023)
Because the WSFS Mark Protection Committee is not a committee of the Business Meeting, but is separate entity directly created through the WSFS Constitution, we removed MPC resolutions from the Resolutions and Rulings of Continuing Effect and created a separate document under the MPC's page on the WSFS website.
Because it does come up as a commonly asked question, even among WSFS "regulars," we also updated the Contact pages on the four "WSFS websites" (wsfs.org, worldcon.org, nasfic.org, and thehugoawards.org) to explicitly state that those sites are managed by the Hugo Awards Marketing Committee of the WSFS Mark Protection Committee, and that I am the lead maintainer. I am not the only person who can maintain the sites. There are multiple people who have the "keys" to the sites. After a very annoying period years ago when it was all but impossible to get anything changed, we do try now to make sure that several people have the keys to the sites.
I'm the person who actually updated the site, and I did assist in proofreading the various documents at the invitation of the 2022 Business Meeting leadership. I thank them for inviting me to help, as they did not have to do so. I have, however, had to bite my tongue at least once by not answering a question directed to the meeting leadership. My own responsibility has been to make sure the 2022 meeting recordings were put online and that the documents certified by the 2022 meeting leadership were posted to wsfs.org in both PDF and DOCX formats (the latter being what the following Worldcon can use to create their required publications).
There is a lot of boring but important sausage being made by various WSFS committees. If you want to know about it, you have to keep up with these updates. It's pretty clear based on the Umbrage expressed after last year's meeting that a fair number of people had stopped paying attention, even when things like the Business Passed On were published on the WSFS site, so you didn't have to wade through a hundred-plus pages of minutes to see what was up for ratification in 2022.
