Aug. 9th, 2024

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No photos today, nor could I upload the Business Meeting videos that Lisa took. The bandwidth in the Crowne Plaza is hopeless. It looks better over in the SEC, but I was unable to get my personal laptop to start due to the fan issue. I cannot upload videos from my work machine for company policy reasons.

Today was the Preliminary Business Meeting, which was scheduled from 10:00 - 15:00 (with a 45 minute lunch break, and a £10 available lunch wrap from the hotel). Unfortunately, because the Village Hotel (site of the meeting) did not get the hard-wired internet connection in place needed specifically to let the CART (captioning) operator do their job (CART is being done remotely this year), we didn't get started until after 11:30! This meant that we were wrong-footed all day long.

The meeting was apparently live-streamed. If there are official recordings of the live-streamed meeting, I do not know where they are. Lisa recorded the meeting on her equipment (permitted by WSFS rules) as did one of the Japanese fans who has recorded the meetings in the past.

Due to the delay, we only got through the changes to the Standing Rules and some of the resolutions, but not all of them, and we didn't get to any of the Constitutional amendments passed on for ratification, or any of the new Constitutional amendments. Consult the WSFS Agenda on the Glasgow 2024 website for the agenda items in the list below, where I'll list what happened to what we did consider.

Summary of Action Taken )

We did not overflow the room in the Village Hotel, although we were close. I don't know how many people will show up on Saturday. By Lisa's count, there were about 100 people attending at peak, but as time went on, some people left.

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