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WSFS Reading Material
Glasgow 2024 published the 2024 WSFS Business Meeting Agenda today. I'm glad that we still have a bunch of three-hole-punched paper and that I was able to find a small three-ring binder. The document, including all of the reports and attachments, is 98 pages long. It contains a huge amount of business, including a number of mutually-contradictory proposals that I hope the Business Meeting will sort out without passing proposals that contradict each other, leaving it up to the 2025 meeting to decide among.
Yes, I'm partially to blame, having submitted and co-sponsored some of these proposals.
I'm relieved that some of the proposals I saw mooted did not make it to the Business Meeting, as they were huge and messy (even more so that what's actually in the agenda, and that's saying a lot) and if they weren't thrown out for being incomprehensible, would have utterly swamped the meeting. It's going to be pretty difficult as it is right now, with the meetings now scheduled from 10:00 to 15:00 on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (no meeting on Thursday, the first day of the convention).
If you are going to Worldcon and want to attend the Business Meeting, note that the meetings will not be at the main Scottish Events Campus (SEC) or in the adjacent SEC Armadillo, but in the Village Hotel across Bell's Bridge over the River Clyde. That's about 600 m from the SEC. It looks like an easy, level walk, but give yourself enough time to get there, because with the vast amount of business, I'm sure the Business Meeting staff (I'm not part of it) will want to start on time and won't be that tolerant of stragglers.
I'm a bit surprised that the convention chose the Village Hotel, although it does continue a trend of setting up a site that is effectively under the control of the Business Meeting without conflicting with other programming. At the previous Scottish Worldcon, we held the Business Meeting in the Forth Room on the ground floor of the Armadillo, and even then we had people complaining at us that we were trying to "hide" the meeting.
Yes, I'm partially to blame, having submitted and co-sponsored some of these proposals.
I'm relieved that some of the proposals I saw mooted did not make it to the Business Meeting, as they were huge and messy (even more so that what's actually in the agenda, and that's saying a lot) and if they weren't thrown out for being incomprehensible, would have utterly swamped the meeting. It's going to be pretty difficult as it is right now, with the meetings now scheduled from 10:00 to 15:00 on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (no meeting on Thursday, the first day of the convention).
If you are going to Worldcon and want to attend the Business Meeting, note that the meetings will not be at the main Scottish Events Campus (SEC) or in the adjacent SEC Armadillo, but in the Village Hotel across Bell's Bridge over the River Clyde. That's about 600 m from the SEC. It looks like an easy, level walk, but give yourself enough time to get there, because with the vast amount of business, I'm sure the Business Meeting staff (I'm not part of it) will want to start on time and won't be that tolerant of stragglers.
I'm a bit surprised that the convention chose the Village Hotel, although it does continue a trend of setting up a site that is effectively under the control of the Business Meeting without conflicting with other programming. At the previous Scottish Worldcon, we held the Business Meeting in the Forth Room on the ground floor of the Armadillo, and even then we had people complaining at us that we were trying to "hide" the meeting.