Where the Worldcon Members Are

[kevin_standlee]

A misunderstanding of how Nippon 2007 organizes its membership databases (there are two of them) led to some people concluding that there were only a handful of Japanese members. This is not true, and I was just this morning sent a map of the membership breakdown by country (and state or prefecture in some cases) by Peggy Rae Sapienza, the convention's North American agent, with permission to redistribute to anyone who might be interested.



While I think that anything you post in an unlocked LJ entry is fair game anyway, do feel free to point people to this post if you think they would be interested. In particularly, point people here if you see them claiming that Nippon 2007 had no Japanese Hugo nominees because it has no Japanese members.

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Japanese member stats

[darth-gofer.livejournal.com]

I've also posted this to the main community. The Japanese membership database shows

742 Attending
132 Supporting
33 Other (Guest, etc, probably attending)

I understand we can expect more last minute and door members than Worldcons normally get because the Japanese often don't know until late whether they can get the day off.

The stats on the .us site are from the .us database, and include the non-public members who do not appear in the listing. I'll try in the future to toss in the Japanese stats as I get them, but that isn't a regular occurrence

Re: Japanese member stats

[darth-gofer.livejournal.com]

Toss another 10 into 'Other', making the total 917.