WSFS Business Meeting and Submitting New Business
Committee reports may include motions. Motions made by committees consisting of more than one person need not be seconded.
1.1. Mark Protection Committee (Including Nominations for MPC)
The Mark Protection Committee will meet at a time to be announced, probably on Thursday evening of the convention. A formal report is unlikely to be available until the Saturday Business Meeting at the earliest.
Nominations for the WSFS Mark Protection Committee are in order at the Preliminary Business Meeting. Nominees must accept nomination and indicate their current residence zone within one hour of the end of the Preliminary Business Meeting.
The members whose terms of office expire at this Worldcon are: Scott Dennis (Central), Donald Eastlake III (East), Ruth Sachter (West). Due to zone residency restrictions, we can elect at most two people from the Western zone, one from the Central zone, two people from the Eastern zone, and 3 people from the Rest of the World. Write-in votes are allowed, but write-in candidates must submit their consent to election by the close of balloting. (See the head table staff for a nomination acceptance form.)
1.2. Nitpicking & Flyspecking Committee
1.3. Worldcon Runners' Guide Editorial Committee
1.4. Hugo Eligibility Rest of the World (HEROW) Committee
1.5. Formalization of Long List Entries (FOLLE) Committee
1.6. The Taming the Digital Wilderness Committee
2.1 Past Worldcons
2.1.1. ConAdian (1994)
2.1.2. The Millennium Philcon (2001)
2.1.3 Torcon 3 (2003)
2.1.4 Noreascon 4 (2004)
2.1.5 Interaction (2005)
2.1.6 CascadiaCon (2005)
2.2. Seated Worldcons & NASFiC
2.2.1 L.A.con IV (2006)
2.2.2 Nippon 2007
The following Constitutional Amendments were approved at Interaction and passed on to L.A.con IV for ratification. If ratified, they will become part of the Constitution at the conclusion of L.A.con IV.
3.1. Short Title: Best Editor Split
Moved, To split the Best Professional Editor Hugo Award into a Best Editor Short Fiction and Best Magazine Editor Long Award by striking out and inserting new sections as follows:
3.3.8: Best Professional Editor. The editor of any professional publication devoted primarily to Science Fiction or Fantasy during the previous calendar year. A professional publication is one which had an average press run of at least ten thousand (10,000) copies per issue.
3.3.x: Best Editor Short Fiction. The editor of at least four (4) anthologies, collections or magazine issues primarily devoted to less than novel-length science fiction and / or fantasy, at least one of which was published in the previous calendar year.
3.3.y: Best Editor Long Fiction. The editor of at least four (4) novels of written science fiction or fantasy published in the previous calendar year.
4.1. Resolutions
Items under this heading may be voted upon and final action taken by the Preliminary Business Meeting.
4.2. Standing Rules Amendments
Items under this heading may be voted upon and final action taken by the Preliminary Business Meeting. Standing rules amendments take effect at the conclusion of the 2006 Business Meeting unless given earlier effect by specific provision and a two-thirds vote. In all amendments, new text is shown in underline type and stricken text is shown in strikethru type.
4.3. Constitutional Amendments
Items under this heading have not yet received first passage, and will become part of the constitution only if passed at L.A.con IV and ratified at Nippon 2007. The Preliminary Business Meeting may amend items under this heading, set debate time limits, refer them to committee, and take other action as permitted under the Standing Rules
5.1. Report of the 2008 Site Selection & Presentation by Winners
5.2. Reports by seated Worldcons & NASFiC
5.2.1. L.A.con IV (2006)
5.2.2 Nippon 2007
5.3. Presentation by future Worldcon bids
5.3.1. Presentation by bidders for 2009
5.3.2. Presentation by bidders for years after 2009
6.1. Adjournment Sine Die
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