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Thanks to @offby1 for leading the work on the Hugo, Lodestar, & Astounding Awards nominations and ballot voting system in use this year, NomNom. I used it yesterday and it worked so smoothly, with lots of little touches to reassure & inform me, and help me help celebrate the best of sf/f.

Chris started it in December 2023, for the 2024 Worldcon to use. Grateful for his efforts & for everyone who's contributed!

github.com/WorldconVotingSyste

Hugo Awards nominating and voting. Contribute to WorldconVotingSystems/nomnom development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHubGitHub - WorldconVotingSystems/nomnom: Hugo Awards nominating and votingHugo Awards nominating and voting. Contribute to WorldconVotingSystems/nomnom development by creating an account on GitHub.

It looks like I'm not attending Worldcon in person this year after all. I'm interested in transferring my adult attending membership to someone in exchange for a $125+ donation to a trans rights charity or similar.

Message me if you're interested, and so I can confirm the charity isn't secretly bad or something

with everything that's happening at the moment, the arrests, the denial of the existence of trans people, the denial of climate change, the erosion of the rule of law...

How can it be justified to have #WorldCon 2025 and 2026 held in the United States? It's unsafe for almost everyone who isn't USAian, and plenty of those who are.

New year, nouveau compte Mastodon !

Salutations, hello all, mon ancienne instance devant fermer fin mars (imaginair.es pour les camarades qui seraient encore dessus et n'auraient pas eu l'info), je déménage chez les corvidés -c'est un peu un retour aux sources, finalement... Merci camarade @Zeph qui me l'a recommandée !

Comme les messages ne migrent pas d'un compte à l'autre, permettez que je me fende d'une nouvelle #introduction :

Moi, c'est Jolan ! Dans la vie je fais plein de trucs, mais je suis principalement connu du public comme l'auteur de quelques romans jeunesse publiés chez l'école des loisirs. En privé, je suis surtout connu pour mon humour, mon manque flagrant de coordination psychomotrice, et mes lasagnes végétariennes. J'aime aussi voyager, et mon objectif dans la vie c'est de caresser tous les chiens. (Tous. Les. Chiens.) (J'aimerais bien aussi devenir pote avec un meurtre de corbeaux un de ces jours mais c'est quand même vachement plus ambitieux.)

J'écris aussi de la #sfff -romans et nouvelles, en français et depuis quelques temps en anglais. Mes dernières publications dans ces domaines remontant un peu, le grand goal du moment c'est de réussir à placer des nouveaux trucs à droite à gauche. Je vous tiendrai au courant ici si ça fonctionne.

Je lis énormément, beaucoup de SF, hein, on se refait pas. Je me suis abonné à @clarkesworld après la #Worldcon 2024 et j'essaie de lire une nouvelle avec mon petit dej tous les matins. Je voudrais d'ailleurs parler davantage de mes lectures sur les RS, 2025 sera peut-être l'année où je vais me lancer ?

Politiquement je me considère comme anar (je voudrais d'ailleurs remercier personnellement #UrsulaLeGuin (RIP you great lady T_T) et @margaret pour m'avoir radicalisé en un bouquin chacune), ça ne vous dit pas grand chose alors ajoutons que je suis une énorme gauchiasse, et bien que ça n'ait aucun rapport je suis un mec trans NB qui aime bien s'imaginer que s'il vivait dans l'univers de #Tolkien il serait un Rohirim mais qui, s'il est honnête avec lui-même (ou juste en présence de qui que soit qui le connaisse un tant soit peu), doit bien admettre qu'il est plus du genre #hobbit -second petit déjeuner inclus.

Voilà, avec ça vous en savez déjà pas mal (sans doute même trop) sur ma pomme.

ACAB cependant, Macron démission etc.

Jo

I've been on the Fediverse since January 2017. I initially ran a single-user instance of Mastodon. In March 2020 I started to write Ktistec, my own implementation of an ActivityPub server in Crystal (a language with the ergonomics of Ruby but the speed of Go) because I wanted something more supportive of writing. This #introduction was written and published on Epiktistes, my Ktistec instance.

I'm an Engineer by training but now I run teams for companies in climate-tech.

I love #music, #sciencefiction and #fantasy literature (yes, I'm an R. A. Lafferty fan), attend fan conventions like #worldcon and #dragoncon, and do regular #weightlifting. I am also learning to play the #bagpipes, and I'm (re)learning #japanese.

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Have you ever wondered about or wanted to participate in how the rules that govern the Worldcon, the Hugo Awards, and other aspects of WSFS get made? We do this at the business meeting. However: have you ever been unable to attend a business meeting session because your favorite author or panel is happening at the same time during the convention? Have you ever been unable to attend the convention, but still wanted to participate in the business meeting?

Fear not! We are excited to announce that this year we have developed a new process for the business meeting: a series of pre-convention, virtual meetings! Seattle Worldcon 2025 will host the business meeting virtually on four different dates prior to the convention: July 4, July 13, July 19, and July 25. These dates were chosen in order to accommodate as best as possible religious observance, work commitments, and time zone differences. Viewing of the meeting will be open to all; however, to participate in the meeting and vote on business will require an attending membership or virtual attending membership in the convention. Our business meeting chair, Jesi Lipp, has experience with hosting virtual business meetings and is excited to bring that wealth of knowledge to WSFS and Seattle Worldcon 2025 in order to expand access and to enfranchise groups historically unable to participate.

To help prepare everyone for this new step forward, Seattle Worldcon 2025’s WSFS team has planned additional events. If you are intimidated by the thought of the business meeting or you’ve wanted to propose a change but are not sure how, you can learn the ropes at one or both of the informational town halls we have lined up. The business meeting chair and WSFS division also anticipate having at least one practice session prior to the virtual meeting using the virtual meeting platform.

Please note that voting for site selection for the 2027 Worldcon will include in-person voting at the convention, and that the announcement of the site selection winner will be done in person at Seattle Worldcon 2025.

Any questions – please reach out to business-meeting-help@seattlein2025.org.

Stay tuned for further details on this exciting new step into the future of the Business Meeting!

Seattle Worldcon 2025

https://seattlein2025.org/2024/12/04/announcement-building-the-business-meetings-future-for-everyone/

worldcon glasgow had a registered tartan created for the event called "landing zone glasgow". unfortunately, they sold out of the first weaving before i could order.

i found out a few days ago that they are taking preorders for a second weaving. this is amazingly great news! a vest is in my future!

the tartan pattern for "landing zone glasgow"


#worldcon #glasgow2024 #tartan