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kevin_standleeThe minutes of the 2024 Westercon Business Meeting and the Westercon Bylaws incorporating the five bylaw amendments ratified at Westercon 76 in Salt Lake City have been posted to the Westercon website.
They key item ratified at the Business Meeting was to strike out the "traditional but not obligatory" language about the date of Westercon that appears to have been taken by most people to require that Westercon always be held over the US Independence Day weekend. It has never been a requirement; indeed, when the 4th of July falls on a Wednesday, it has sometimes led to bids from "opposite" weekends, and in one notorious case, an additional bid of "Both" that might have led to a two-week-long Westercon held in two different cities, depending on how things had worked out.
I'm grateful to Linda Deneroff for her quick work turning around the Minutes and Bylaws (which were more complicated this year due to all of the bylaw amendments), to Lisa Hayes for her work recording the meeting (which, as I said when I posted it a few days ago, gives you a chance to see how the parliamentary sausage is made), to Martin Pyne who served as Deputy Presiding Officer, pointing things out to me that I missed, and managing to avoid having to chair a committee of the whole again, and finally to Scott Sanford, who I appointed "doorwarden" when it became clear that we needed to keep the door closed due to noise coming from the hallway, but that we also needed someone to help those people arriving late get into the room, as we were close to capacity.
They key item ratified at the Business Meeting was to strike out the "traditional but not obligatory" language about the date of Westercon that appears to have been taken by most people to require that Westercon always be held over the US Independence Day weekend. It has never been a requirement; indeed, when the 4th of July falls on a Wednesday, it has sometimes led to bids from "opposite" weekends, and in one notorious case, an additional bid of "Both" that might have led to a two-week-long Westercon held in two different cities, depending on how things had worked out.
I'm grateful to Linda Deneroff for her quick work turning around the Minutes and Bylaws (which were more complicated this year due to all of the bylaw amendments), to Lisa Hayes for her work recording the meeting (which, as I said when I posted it a few days ago, gives you a chance to see how the parliamentary sausage is made), to Martin Pyne who served as Deputy Presiding Officer, pointing things out to me that I missed, and managing to avoid having to chair a committee of the whole again, and finally to Scott Sanford, who I appointed "doorwarden" when it became clear that we needed to keep the door closed due to noise coming from the hallway, but that we also needed someone to help those people arriving late get into the room, as we were close to capacity.
