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.
2023 WSFS Business Meeting Agenda Published
Chengdu Worldcon 2023 published the Agenda of the 2023 WSFS Business Meeting on their website on October 8, 2023. A Chinese-language version of the agenda is also available.
The 2023 WSFS Business Meeting will be held in the Meteor Museum at the World Science Fiction Park in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, meeting on October 19, 20, 21, and if necessary, 22, 2023, with each day’s meeting starting at 10:00 AM China Standard Time. All WSFS members present at the convention may attend, participate, and vote on matters before the meeting. The Business Meeting team plans to record the meetings and post them to the YouTube Worldcon Events channel as soon as possible; however, this is dependent upon bandwidth and technology available to the team, and the recordings may not be posted until after this year’s Worldcon concludes. We do not know if Chengdu 2023 intends to live-stream the Business Meeting.
Send inquires about the 2023 WSFS Business Meeting to wsfs_bm2023@wsfs.org.
2023 WSFS MPC Report Published
The report of the WSFS Mark Protection Committee to the 2023 WSFS Business Meeting, including the report of the Hugo Awards Marketing Committee, is available on the MPC Reports page. While MPC reports are generally included in the WSFS Business Meeting minutes, we have decided to publish them on their on page as part of the Mark Protection Committee information because we have received separate inquiries about the MPC’s report.
Updated Art Show Guide
The section of the Worldcon Runners’ Guide dealing with the Art Show has been updated. To read it, click here. Our thanks to Scott Zrubek for this work on this.
New WRG Article
The Worldcon Runners Guide Committee has released a new article: “North American v European Worldcons” by Stephen Cooper. To read it, click here.
WCRG Updates
We have a batch up updates to the Worldcon Runners Guide today. The updated sections are:
Our thanks as always to the WCRG committee for sharing their expertise.
2021-22 WSFS Constitution, Standing Rules, and Business Passed On Published
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.
The Guide on Timelines and Facilities
Two new sections of the Worldcon Runners’ Guide have been uploaded to this website. They are on Facilities and Timelines. You can find the full list of Guide articles here.
Worldcon Runner’s Guide Update
The section of the Worldcon Runner’s Guide Update devoted to running the convention functions required by the World Science Fiction Society has been updated. You can find the new section, along with the rest of the Guide, here.
2020 WSFS Business Meeting Update
CoNZealand, the 78th World Science Fiction Convention, has updated their 2020 WSFS Business Meeting page to reflect adjustments due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under WSFS rules, only members physically present at the Business Meeting may participate (make motions, debate, and vote). Because of the travel restrictions that have obliged the convention to move online-only, most members of WSFS will not be able to attend the meeting. Therefore, Acting Presiding Officer Darusha Wehm will chair a minimal meeting scheduled for 10 am (New Zealand Time) on Saturday, August 1st, 2020 in Room 1 of the West Plaza Hotel in Wellington, New Zealand. At this meeting, only time-constrained matters (primarily consideration of Hugo Award eligibility extensions for specific works) will be considered. All other business, including ratification of pending WSFS constitutional amendments, will be deferred to the 2021 WSFS Business Meeting at DisCon III.
The Agenda for the 2020 WSFS Business Meeting, including reports submitted to the meeting, is available from the WSFS Rules page.
CoNZealand encourages members who planned on submitting new business this year to instead submit proposals to the DisCon III Business Meeting.