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I suspect the moderators will be very cranky if any Hugo Award related stuff shows up in this thread. Just sayin'.
And now for something completely different!
If you have an Attending, Military, Young Adult, or Supporting membership to Sasquan, the 2015 World Science Fiction Convention, you have voting privileges in Site Selection for the 2017 WorldCon.
I encourage you to vote in site selection if you can. It gets you a supporting membership in the 2017 WorldCon and you get a say in where the con ends up in two years.
Site Selection voting must take place with a paper ballot. If you are going to be at the con in person, you can vote on site.
If you will not be at Sasquan, here is how to vote for Site Selection.
At this time, you must print out the paper ballot (link at that site) and mail it with a check or money order to Sasquan. There will be an on-line payment system in a few weeks, they say.
Ballots not turned in at Sasquan must be received by the mail-in deadline of August 10, 2015.
The cost to vote is $40 USD. This fee will give you a supporting membership in the 2017 WorldCon, whichever bid wins. That supporting membership gives you nomination privileges for the Hugo Awards for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 WorldCon, voting privileges for the Hugo Awards for the 2017 WorldCon and the privilege to vote to select the site of the 2019 WorldCon (for an additional fee). You'll also get all the 2017 con publications.
If you end up wanting an Attending membership to the 2017 WorldCon, voting in site selection and paying the upgrade fee is the cheapest the Attending membership will ever be.
Site voting is by Instant Runoff Voting, just like Hugo voting. Rank your first choice "1", your second choice "2", etc. If you don't care who wins, you can vote "No Preference" (or for Helsinki! Yes, I am partisan!!). If you don't like any of the four choices, you can write in a candidate or vote "None of the Above". It's all on the ballot.
The choices for 2017 are:
Helsinki
Washington, DC
Montreal
Nippon 2017 (Shizuoka, Japan)
No Preference
None of the Above
The Helsinki people have put together a Multilingual Voting Guide.
Note that I am not affiliated with Sasquan in any way, though I will be volunteering at the con. I do not speak for them. If you have questions, see their web site.
I am not affiliated with the Helsinki in 2017 bid either, other than being a pre-supporter and attending some of their bid parties.
And now for something completely different!
If you have an Attending, Military, Young Adult, or Supporting membership to Sasquan, the 2015 World Science Fiction Convention, you have voting privileges in Site Selection for the 2017 WorldCon.
I encourage you to vote in site selection if you can. It gets you a supporting membership in the 2017 WorldCon and you get a say in where the con ends up in two years.
Site Selection voting must take place with a paper ballot. If you are going to be at the con in person, you can vote on site.
If you will not be at Sasquan, here is how to vote for Site Selection.
At this time, you must print out the paper ballot (link at that site) and mail it with a check or money order to Sasquan. There will be an on-line payment system in a few weeks, they say.
Ballots not turned in at Sasquan must be received by the mail-in deadline of August 10, 2015.
The cost to vote is $40 USD. This fee will give you a supporting membership in the 2017 WorldCon, whichever bid wins. That supporting membership gives you nomination privileges for the Hugo Awards for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 WorldCon, voting privileges for the Hugo Awards for the 2017 WorldCon and the privilege to vote to select the site of the 2019 WorldCon (for an additional fee). You'll also get all the 2017 con publications.
If you end up wanting an Attending membership to the 2017 WorldCon, voting in site selection and paying the upgrade fee is the cheapest the Attending membership will ever be.
Site voting is by Instant Runoff Voting, just like Hugo voting. Rank your first choice "1", your second choice "2", etc. If you don't care who wins, you can vote "No Preference" (or for Helsinki! Yes, I am partisan!!). If you don't like any of the four choices, you can write in a candidate or vote "None of the Above". It's all on the ballot.
The choices for 2017 are:
Helsinki
Washington, DC
Montreal
Nippon 2017 (Shizuoka, Japan)
No Preference
None of the Above
The Helsinki people have put together a Multilingual Voting Guide.
Note that I am not affiliated with Sasquan in any way, though I will be volunteering at the con. I do not speak for them. If you have questions, see their web site.
I am not affiliated with the Helsinki in 2017 bid either, other than being a pre-supporter and attending some of their bid parties.
