Standing Rules

WSFS Rules Page Update With 2025 Minutes, Constitution, Standing Rules

~ Kayla Allen

The WSFS Rules page has been updated with the minutes of the 2025 WSFS Business Meeting and an updated copy of the Business Passed On to the 2026 Worldcon for ratification at their Business Meeting. The WSFS Constitution and Standing Rules were previously updated.

Most of the recordings of the 2025 Business Meeting are still pending editing by the Business Meeting team. There is a recording (not an official copy from the Business Meeting team) of the final meeting of the 2025 session, including the formal reception of 2027 Site Selection results and of business not otherwise handled at the previous meeting of the 2025 session. There is a link to all videos that have been made available to the WSFS website team on the WSFS Rules page.

2023-24 WSFS Constitution and Standing Rules Posted

~ Kevin Standlee

The updated version of the WSFS Constitution for 2023-24 and the Standing Rules for governance of the 2024 WSFS Business Meeting have been posted to the WSFS rules page.

The 2023 WSFS Business Meeting minutes, Business Passed On to the 2024 WSFS Business Meeting, and updated Resolutions and Rulings of Continuing Effect as of the end of the 2023 WSFS Business Meeting are being prepared and we will post them as soon as they are made publicly available.

2021-22 WSFS Constitution, Standing Rules, and Business Passed On Published

~ Kevin Standlee

The official versions of the 2022 WSFS Constitution, Standing Rules for the 2022 WSFS Business Meeting, and Business Passed on to the 2022 WSFS Business Meeting from the WSFS Business Meeting held at Worldcon 79, DisCon III in Washington DC are now available from the WSFS Rules page. This includes the Minutes of the 2022 WSFS Business Meeting, the updated Resolutions and Rulings of Continuing Effect as of the conclusion of the 2022 WSFS Business Meeting, and links to the video recordings of the 2022 WSFS Business Meeting.

The 2021 Business Meeting ratified all proposals passed on from the 2020 Worldcon (CoNZealand in Wellington, New Zealand). All of those proposals were originally adopted at the 2019 Worldcon (Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon) in Dublin, Ireland, but were effectively deferred to DisCon III for ratification. (See the 2020 Business Meeting minutes for details.)

Past years’ WSFS Business pages are available at the WSFS Rules Archive page.

2019-20 WSFS Constitution, Standing Rules, and Business Passed On Published

~ Kevin Standlee

The official versions of the 2020 WSFS Constitution, Standing Rules for the 2020 WSFS Business Meeting, and Business Passed on to the 2020 Business Meeting from the WSFS Business Meeting held at Dublin in 2019: An Irish Worldcon in Dublin are now available from the WSFS Rules page. This includes the Minutes of the 2019 WSFS Business Meeting, the updated Resolutions and Rulings of Continuing Effect as of the conclusion of the 2019 WSFS Business Meeting, and links to the video recordings of the 2019 WSFS Business Meeting.

Past years’ WSFS Business pages are available at the WSFS Rules Archive page.

2018-19 WSFS Constitution, Standing Rules, and Business Passed On Published

~ Kevin Standlee

The official versions of the 2019 WSFS Constitution, Standing Rules for the 2019 WSFS Business Meeting, and Business Passed on to the 2019 Business Meeting from the WSFS Business Meeting held at Worldcon 76 in San José are now available from the WSFS Rules page. This includes the Minutes of the 2018 WSFS Business Meeting and the updated Resolutions and Rulings of Continuing Effect as of the conclusion of the 2018 WSFS Business Meeting and links to the video recordings of the 2018 WSFS Business Meeting.

Past years’ WSFS Business pages are available at the WSFS Rules Archive page.