• Administer the Hugo Awards
• Select the site for a future Worldcon (two years hence)
• Hold a Business Meeting
• Present regular financial reports

This page contains information on each of these topics. We have also provided a separate page with answers to some Frequently Asked Questions about WSFS.

WSFS Constitution and Business Meeting

WSFS is governed by a Constitution and Standing Rules, which ensures that the organisation continues effectively from year to year even though the WSFS membership is changing all the time.

WSFS has its own website, which you can find at www.wsfs.org.

The following documents were input to the Business Meeting held at Interaction:

• The WSFS Constitution (as of September 2004)

• The WSFS Standing Rules (as of September 2004)

• Minutes of the 2004 Business Meeting (467 KB download, PDF format)

• Interaction Business Meeting Agenda. This includes details of business passed on from Noreascon 4 (motions which were passed in Boston in 2004, but needed to be ratified in Glasgow to take effect).

2005 Business Meeting Materials

The minutes, including attachments, for the 2005 Business Meeting, held at Interaction on Friday 5 August and Saturday 6 August 2005, can be downloaded below.

• Minutes (PDF format, 98 KB)

• Attachments (Zip file containing files in PDF, MS Excel and MS Word format, 370 KB download)

Site Selection

There will be no Worldcon site selection at Interaction. In most years, there is a site selection at Worldcon to determine the site of a future Worldcon. A change to the WSFS Constitution ratified at Noreascon 4 reduced the lead time for selecting Worldcon from three years to two years. Therefore, the 2008 Worldcon site selection will happen in 2006 at L.A.con IV instead of at Interaction. As part of the transition from three years to two, members of Interaction will be eligible to vote in the 2008 site selection even if they are not members of L.A.con IV. (You will only be allowed one vote if you are a member of both, however.) Interaction will work with L.A.con IV to make sure that all of Interaction's members are included in the 2008 Worldcon site selection in 2006.

Please note that you cannot choose to retain your site selection voting right if transferring your membership, all rights automatically transfer with the membership as explained here.

Interaction Financial Reports

Active Worldcons are required to file a financial report with the Worldcon Business Meeting each year. You can find Interaction's reports here.

Report to Torcon 3 (August 2003)

Report to Noreascon 4 (August 2004)

Report to Interaction (August 2005) (30 KB PDF Download)

Report to L.A.con IV (August 2006) (30 KB PDF Download)

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Page last updated 20^th August 2006