Recordings

2025 WSFS Business Meeting Video Updated

~ Kayla Allen

The public and official recordings of the 2025 WSFS Business Meeting, some of which were online only and one of which was in person only, are now available on the Worldcon Events YouTube Channel.

There were a total of five business meetings. Meetings 1-4 were held entirely online over the weeks prior to Seattle Worldcon 2025. Meeting 2 (First Main Meeting) was held entirely in executive session and no public recording is available. Meeting 5 (Fourth Main/Site Selection Meeting) was held in person at Seattle Worldcon 2025. The official recording (a livestream of the in-person meeting) is on the playlist, as well as an unofficial recording made by Kayla Allen.

The recordings of meetings 1, 3, 4, and 5 were made available to the WSFS website by the 2025 WSFS Business Meeting staff and were originally published on the Seattle 2025 YouTube channel.

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 WSFS Business Meeting Video Posted

~ Kevin Standlee

A playlist of video recordings of the three sessions of the 2023 WSFS Business Meeting in Chengdu, China, is now available on YouTube. The meeting was conducted in both English and Chinese, with simultaneous translation provided, but it was not possible to include the translation audio with this video. If alternative versions that include all of the translated material become available, we will post about them here.

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.

2018 Business Meeting Video Published

~ Kevin Standlee

Recordings of the 2018 WSFS Business Meeting, held over the second, third, and fourth days of Worldcon 76 San Jose, are available online in the 2018 WSFS Business Meeting (Higher Quality) playlist on the Worldcon Events YouTube channel. These recordings are higher quality than the “video thumbnails” published in short segments during the business Meeting itself, but take longer to generate and upload. Recent Business Meetings have uploaded the lower-quality videos relatively quickly (sometimes while the meeting was still going on), then published the higher-quality video later as bandwidth permits.

The minutes and official papers of the 2018 WSFS Business Meeting are in preparation. When they are complete, they will be published on the Constitution/Rules page.

2017 WSFS Minutes Published

~ Kevin Standlee ~ 2 Comments

The minutes of the 2017 WSFS Business Meeting held at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki are now available from the WSFS Rules page. Also on that page is the link to the official recordings of the 2017 WSFS Business Meeting.

The 2017 Business Meeting staff are preparing the official versions of the 2018 WSFS Constitution, Standing Rules for the Business Meeting, Resolutions and Rulings of Continuing Effect, and Business Passed on to the 2018 Business Meeting. The Constitution/Rules page will be updated as new documents are issued.