This is one of a series of posts about the 2025 World Science Fiction Society Business Meeting. They are all tagged bm2025.

I’m devoting an entire post to F13 (pages 41-43 of the agenda), the question of abolishing the NASFiC, the annual convention held under WSFS auspices when WorldCon is outside North America. I hope it is clear that I am something of a WSFS minimalist, in that I think WSFS should not be regulating more than strictly necessary. I also think it looks very weird that North America alone should get special geographical treatment in the form of an extra validated convention in compensation if WorldCon is elsewhere.

I saw a proposal a few years ago for WSFS to set up approved conventions for each continent, though I don’t think this was ever formally put to a Business Meeting; and another proposal for an Asian Science Fiction Convention under WSFS auspices was approved in Chengdu but then failed ratification in Glasgow. I am all in favour of everywhere having their own regional convention, as Europe has done for years; I just don’t see why WSFS needs to be involved, or what value WSFS accreditation would add.

Having said that, I am glad that this proposal is going forward at a US WorldCon, in Seattle, and would be ratified next year in the US again, in Los Angeles. I think the optics of non-North American WorldCons voting to take away the NASFiC are not good.

Voting in favour.

2025 WSFS Business meeting posts:
Mark Protection Committee Report
Investigation Committee on the 2023 Hugo Awards report
Software Committee
Hugo Administration Process Committee report
Business Meeting Study Group
C1, C2, C3, C4
C5
D1, D2, D3
D4
D5, D6
D7, D8
D9, D10, D11, D12
E1, E2
E3, E4, E5
E6
E7
E8
E9
F1, F2
F3, F4, F5, F6
F7, F8
F9, F10
F11
F12
F13
F14, F15
F16, F17, F18, F19
F20
F21
F22