ConJosé The 60th World Science Fiction Convention Thursday, August 29 through Monday, September 2, 2002 Progress Report 3 January 2002 ConJosé The 60th World Science Fiction Convention McEnery Convention Center, San José, California Thursday, August 29 through Monday, September 2, 2002 Guests of Honor Vernor Vinge David Cherry Bjo & John Trimble Ferdinand Feghoot Tad Williams Memberships $180 US until July 31, 2002 For more information, see the membership form on page 39. For information on our installment plan, see page 38. ConJosé PO Box 61363 Sunnyvale, CA 94088-1363 USA International Agents Australia UK Europe Canada Rose Mitchell Steve Davies & Giulia de Cesare Vince Docherty John Mansfi eld ConJosé 52 Westbourne Terrace Brugstraat 17B 333 Lipton St. GPO Box 1212K Reading, Berkshire, RG30 2RP Groningen 9712AA, Netherlands Winnipeg MB R2G 2H2 Melbourne VIC 3002 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ConJosé Staff Contact List Table of Contents General: [email protected] Convention Info 2 Chairman and senior staff Chairman: [email protected] ConJosé Email Addresses 3 Vice Chair: [email protected] Publication Credits 3 Financial Controller: [email protected] Notes from the Chairman 4 Publications Division General: [email protected] Hotel Info 4 Publicity: [email protected] Weapons Policy 4 Press/Media Relations: [email protected] Advertising (fannish): [email protected] Hugo Ceremony Info 6 Advertising (professional): [email protected] Programming 6 Webmaster: [email protected] San Jose History 6 Programming Division General: [email protected] Masquerade 8 Filk: fi [email protected] Vernor Vinge Bio 11 Writers’ Workshop: [email protected] 2005 Worldcon Site Selection 11 Administration Division General: [email protected] Writers Workshop 12 Registration: [email protected] John & Bjo Trimble Bio 14 UK agent: [email protected] European agent: [email protected] Feghoot Bio and Contest 16 Canadian agent: [email protected] Operating Committee 17 Australian agent: [email protected] Corporate Liaison: [email protected] Rates for PR #4 18 MIS/IT: [email protected] Hugo Ballot & Instructions 19 Volunteers: [email protected] WSFS Constitution 23 Fixed Functions Division General: fi [email protected] New Members 34 Dealers’ Room: [email protected] Membership Breakdowns 37 Art Show: [email protected] Lost Members 37 Extravaganzas/Events Division General: [email protected] Installment Plan 38 Facilities Division Where We’ll Be 38 General: [email protected] Membership Rates and Form 39 Party Suite Booking: [email protected] Party Maven:: [email protected] Hospitality Division General: [email protected] This progress report was designed by Brenda and Bob Con Suite: [email protected] Daverin and edited by Sue Ellen Adkins. It was laid out on a PowerBook G3 using InDesign 1.5.2, Photoshop 5.5, Fairy Godfather Division Acrobat 4.0, Acrobat Distiller 4.0, and BBEdit 6.1. Printed General: [email protected] at T&J Graphics, Redwood City, CA. The fonts used in Feghoot competition: [email protected] this publication are Optima, Berliner Grotesk, Bikly Bold, World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) and Book Antiqua. General: [email protected] Business Meeting: [email protected] The ConJosé Progress Report is published annually by Hugo Award Administration: [email protected] San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., P.O. Box Site Selection: [email protected] 61363, Sunnyvale, CA 94088-1363. Copyright 2001 San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., with applicable rights reverting to creators upon publication. “Worldcon,” “World Science Fiction Convention,” “WSFS,” “World Science Fiction Society,” ”NASFiC,” and “Hugo Award” are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. “ConJosé” is a service mark of San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. ConJosé Hugo ballot art by David Cherry. Cover art by Hubert Schweizer. Incidental art by David Falk (p. 14), Irene Salzmann (pp. 12 & 38), and Hubert Schweizer (p. 11) ConJosé Progress Report 3 3 From the ConChair Tom Whitmore [email protected] We’re all still a little uncertain what the world will look like next September since the events of September 11th and the subsequent anthrax scares. We keep getting contradictory messages: go back to normal, but always wash your hands after opening the mail. Go back to fl ying, but we’ll be checking you much more carefully (I got randomly picked to be closely searched including a pat-down on my last trip to the Bay Area). Travel is now cheap, but inconvenient. We’re trying to re-do our budget for ConJosé, but we have no idea what parameters to use! I hope that all of you receiving this anywhere in the world will take to heart the cooperation that the Worldcon represents. We will have people working on our convention from at least three continents, and probably more. We will have representatives from gaming, media, fi lking, fanzine, literary and costuming fandom from all over the world. We’ll spend fi ve days building community and hope that that community lasts the year until we meet in Toronto. We’ll welcome newcomers and enjoy meeting old friends. On a personal level, fandom is where I grew up. It’s important to me. The fact that I can fi nd friends to stay with in most major cities in the world is remarkable, and it’s because of fandom. The fact that I hear voices from many different places, ideas that challenge what I have always believed, and that I can think a little bit with a global perspective are because I’ve been exposed to many different ideas through fandom. I disagree passionately with a great many fans (and pros!); but I pay attention to what they say, for the most part, because I have learned that sometimes people I disagree with are right. Sometimes they aren’t, but I’ll never learn anything unless I listen to them. Jon Singer quotes a very powerful line: “If you know, you can’t fi nd out.” Through fans — through all of you reading this and thousands of others — I get to challenge what I know, and I get to fi nd out. We build something wonderful each year when we have a Worldcon. We’re not always happy with every minute, but we can be proud of how we deal with each other overall. We come from different backgrounds and come together to have a common experience, and that is what will (in the long run) help create a world we can all feel part of. Many fans felt like outcasts as they were growing up, and feel at home here now — if we can do that for each other, we can begin to create a world that does that as well. Thank you all for helping us do that. Hey — remember to nominate for the Hugo Awards! If you’ve read one book you like, or seen one movie or TV show, or found one short story memorable, or (special this year!) found one web site that enhances your view of SF and fandom, nominate it! You don’t have to know any more than that you liked that one item. We’d love to have every member nominate something — help us reach that goal. Thanks for taking the time! Tom Whitmore Chairman, ConJosé Hotels Weapons Policy [email protected] Dave Gallaher & Nancy Cobb ConJosé is working on creating a weapons policy that ConJosé’s party hotel will be The Fairmont San José. will serve to safeguard our membership both physically Instructions for groups wishing to host a party and/or and legally while granting them maximum freedom at reserve a suite will be published along with our hotel the same time. With that in mind we’d like to provide the following broad outlines of what we want to include in reservation form in Offl ine 3. our policy statement. First, no real or realistic projectile Rates for rooms at The Fairmont are $129 per night weapons may be carried anywhere within the convention. for a standard room, $199 per night for a Junior Suite, $249 This is due to our locale having a realistic weapons law on the books. Using a weapon during the Masquerade per night for a One-Bedroom suite, and $750 per night for or during a programming event must be approved in a Luxury suite. Each One-Bedroom suite has a parlor and advance by masquerade or programming personnel bedroom and is connected to a standard room. The Luxury respectively. Brandishing a weapon in any convention Suites have included bedrooms and are also connected to space is prohibited. standard rooms. All rates are subject to applicable state L.A.con III posited a defi nition of a weapon that we and local taxes, currently 10%. feel safe in adopting at this time. It defi nes “a weapon as any object designed to cause damage, or any replica of such an object, or any object that the Committee determines to pose a risk to the safety of others or to personal or hotel property.” Dealers who sell weapons must securely wrap each item at the point of sale and provide each customer with a printed copy of these rules. 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