{"id":15111,"date":"2015-08-20T08:51:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2015\/08\/20\/15111.html"},"modified":"2015-08-20T08:51:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T15:51:20","slug":"please-attend-todays-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2015\/08\/20\/please-attend-todays-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Please attend today’s Business Meeting at Worldcon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you're at Worldcon and you care about the Hugos, please come to the WSFS Business Meetings<\/a>; the first one starts this morning at 10 am, an hour from now, in Convention Center Room 300B.<\/p>\n

I've never attended a WSFS Business Meeting, but I'm going to this year, and if you're here and you care about the Hugos, you should too. Here's why:<\/p>\n

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  1. There are several proposals that may have a big impact on future Hugos. In particular, there are a couple of proposals that attempt to prevent future slate voting.<\/li>\n
  2. Every Attending Member gets a vote, but you have to be there in person to vote.<\/li>\n
  3. Business meetings regularly quash new proposals via something called Objection to Consideration; if 3\/4 of those in attendance vote not to consider something, then it doesn't even get discussed.<\/li>\n
  4. Nobody knows whether there will be a bunch of Puppies-slate supporters in attendance or not. If there are, presumably they will vote OTC for anything that tries to prevent slate voting.<\/li>\n
  5. A given item has to be approved at two consecutive Worldcons. If a measure gets killed this year, then the earliest it can be approved is two years from now, more likely three.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Kevin Standlee's writeup of how Business Meetings work<\/a> is very much worth reading.<\/p>\n

    Cheryl Morgan recently posted some discussion of and recommendations about the proposals<\/a> that we'll be considering this year. Also a followup post<\/a> changing her recommendation of one of them.<\/p>\n

    (I disagree slightly with a couple of Cheryl's comments, but worth reading regardless. I don't have time to say more right now; gotta get moving if I want to be at today's meeting.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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