2024 Worldcon: Friday and Saturday Business Meetings

It turns out the that wi-fi at the Village Hotel (where the Business Meetings are happening is just dandy, with 70 MBPS upload speed. Also, I was able to use Adobe Premiere to compile the individual segments of the Business Meeting into a single file, and that single file is much smaller than the combined individual segments. For example, the nine individual files off the camera for Day 3 (Saturday, First Main Meeting) total 25.7 GB, but the compiled file is only 5.1 GB. I was able to set Adobe Premiere to compile the files while I slept, and I set up my computer in far corner of the Sunday Business Meeting to upload. By the time we were done meeting, the Friday and Saturday recordings were uploaded.

Remember that these are not official recordings of Glasgow 2024. They are individual recordings made by Lisa Hayes as a member of WSFS as authorized by Standing Rule 1.6. This is why they are uploaded to my YouTube channel, not to the Worldcon Events channel.

Friday Preliminary Business Meeting:

Watch on YouTube

Saturday First Main Business Meeting

Watch on YouTube

Note that there was a long Executive Session regarding certain motions of the sensitive nature that was not recorded, by order of the meting. I will not talk about that meeting, per the instructions from the meeting.

There is also a 2024 WSFS Business Meeting Video Playlist" to which I will most more videos when I can get them compiled and uploaded.

You are welcome to share these videos with anyone you think appropriate. They are not secret.

2024 Worldcon Day 4: The Required Business & The Hugo Awards

Backdated entry: While most people who are really interested will have seen the results elsewhere, I'm going to try and go through the results of the Sunday (Worldcon Day 4) Business Meeting for my own satisfaction. I'd also like to thank File 770 and Gray Anderson for their work, which allowed me to figure out where my notes sprung a leak.

I note that the Business Meeting Day 2 Video off of Lisa's camera that I posted appears to have gotten the audio and video out of sync. This is probably a mistake I made while combining the segments together in Adobe Premiere. Unfortunately, with my personal computer (with Premiere) dead and unlikely to be repaired until some time after I get back to Nevada and am able to ship it off to Dell for warranty repair, I'm not going to be able to fix it for a while. If you are a member of 2024 Glasgow, you should be able to watch the replay of the live stream on their site along with other recorded programming. I've been told that eventually we'll be able to upload the official recordings to the YouTube Worldcon Events channel, but I don't know when that will happen.

If you want to know what the text of any of the matters mentioned here are, you need to download the 2024 WSFS Business Meeting Agenda. This post will not restate the text of anything that is already in the Agenda. If no vote tally is shown, it means the vote was by uncounted show of hands. Counted votes were taken by "serpentine" voting, and yes, there were provisions to count people who could not stand for a serpentine vote.

( Summary of Action Taken )

The Sunday meeting adjourned leaving parts of F.10 (which was divided into multiple sub-proposals) and F.14-F.20 to consider.

Once again, we did not overflow the room, and indeed, the attendance started to drop off as people whose hot-button issues were resolved in one way or another. Some folks would not be back because they would be leaving Sunday night or Monday morning, or because they were exhausted.

And speaking of exhausted, Lisa was very tired after recording a third very long day of Business Meetings, and she's not fond of award ceremonies, so she took the afternoon off and rested. I, however, had went to the effort of bringing my suit with me, so I escorted Cheryl Morgan to the Hugo Awards ceremony. We forgot to get a picture together, though.

( 19 Years Later )

After the ceremony, I went back up to my room and got my computer and then went with Cheryl to her hotel, the Hilton Garden Inn, because she had generously allowed me to come down to her hotel where the internet actually worked so that I could get the Hugo Awards website updated. I accidentally left my tie behind in her room when I took off my jacket and tie before getting to work, but she recovered them for me and got the back to me the next day.

It was at this point in the Worldcon when my lack of internet connectivity in my own hotel room overwhelmed me and I was unable to post Business Meeting summaries on the same day. It was very frustrating.