progress report #5 1 contents progress report #5 aurinkoista kesää! .................................................................................3 editor: Nina Törnudd how to make the most of your first worldcon ...............................5 contributors: Saija Aro, Ari Baronofsky, Clare registration ............................................................................................7 Boothby, Pam Burr, Colette Fozard, Jukka Halme, Marco “Mac” Johansson, Charlotte what is turva? .........................................................................................9 Laihonen, Karo Leikomaa, Marianna tech help needed? ..................................................................................11 Leikomaa, Sanna Lopperi, Sonja Mikkonen, worldcon 75's exhibits halls – where the books live ................... 13 Otto Mäkelä, Terry Neill, Antti Rasinen, Edmund Schluessel, Kate Secor, Vesa Sisättö, volunteers – worldcon 75 wants you! ............................................14 J. Robert Tupasela, Kaisa Vitikainen, Tero we made you a restaurant guide! enjoy! ......................................... 17 Ykspetäjä merchandise .......................................................................................... 17 proofreading: Garth Coogan, Edmund Schluessel helsinki's public transportation system: graphic design: M. Pietikäinen efficient and convenient ................................................................... 19 illustrations: rent a friendly yellow city bike! .......................................................24 Maya Hahto: cover Minna Salminen: 5 arriving early in helsinki? ................................................................27 religious services around the worldcon weekend ......................29 “World Science Fiction Society”, “WSFS”, if you have some time off and it's a sunny day ..............................30 “World Science Fiction Convention”, “Worldcon”, “NASFiC”, “Hugo Award”, tourist information ............................................................................ 31 and the distinctive design of the Hugo pub meetings in finland ......................................................................32 Award Rocket are service marks of the good to know and nice to know ......................................................33 World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. progress report recap ........................................................................35 PHOTO : MATTI TIRRI “The world is full of great and wonderful things / VISIT for those who are ready for them.” HELSINKI moominpappa, in moominpappa at sea (orig. pappan och havet) by tove jansson Aurinkoista kesää! This fifth, and final, Progress Report will be published as going to need a lot of volunteers during the convention, June turns to July. The days are long and the nights are vir- and although the bigger staff positions have already been tually non-existent at this time in Finland, and black-out filled, there are smaller staff positions which still require curtains are definitely your friend! After Midsummer, the more staff. Please contact us if you’d like to help! You can days will slowly start getting shorter again, but that does also walk up to the volunteers’ desk at-con and volunteer not mean Worldcon 75 works any less. as usual. As we move into the summer, we are getting a lot of the Since the convention is getting close, our team have final practical things confirmed. Worldcon 75 staff had its gathered a package of practical information about the final Staff Weekend in May. We toured the venue several convention and Helsinki to this Progress Report. We hope times, and many plans started coming into life, includ- this will help you plan your travels and your stay in Hel- ing the final locations of everything at the convention. sinki, and help you make the most of the first Worldcon Our Programme team is working hard to get everything in Finland! together, and those of you on Programme should have heard from them already. The plans for the Hugo Awards, Masquerade and other events are also being finalised and there are trips and tours being confirmed. We are talking With best wishes, to so many cool people locally, it’s hard to contain our ex- citement at this point! jukka halme, karo leikomaa If you are still wondering if you could help with the or- and colette h. fozard ganisation of the convention, the answer is yes! We are worldcon 75 chair team 3 Tour de Helsinki Get the most out of your stay and discover Helsinki on city bikes. Look for yellow bike stations or ask the next local you meet. Enjoy your stay. hsl.fi/citybikes How to Make the Most of Your First Worldcon Is this your first Worldcon? Congratulations and welcome! self, please let the con-organisers know – they’d need that Worldcons are large and seem to contain a world and ability, too! language of their own, so here are some pointers on how In addition to the programme, Worldcon 75 will also to make the most of your (first) Worldcon. If you are a sea- have much more! It’s really worth scheduling some time soned con-veteran, you will know some of these things al- for seeing all the Exhibits and Displays and the Art Show ready even if you’ve never been to a Worldcon! as well, and of course thinking about visiting the Dealers’ One of the big differences between Worldcons and room, too! And while creating your own schedule, remem- many other types of conventions is that Worldcon sells ber to schedule in times to eat, too! memberships, not tickets. This means that everybody who One important thing to do before any convention is to attends the convention, whether an author, a fan, an artist, read its Code of Conduct (COC). It tells you all the import- a staff member, a volunteer, is a member of the convention ant things about how to behave in the consite – as well and, as such, a member of the Worldcon community and as useful and necessary info about where you can smoke, the World Science Fiction Society for the year. Worldcon is where you are allowed to drink alcohol, and so on. The created by members, for the members! purpose of the Code of Conduct is not to prevent anybody from having fun, but to make the convention fun for every- body! Worldcon 75 has its Code of Conduct on the website. before the convention Worldcon 75 will publish its programme about a month before the actual event, and checking to see what’s being at the con offered is, of course, a good way to prepare for the conven- Once the convention begins, the first thing to do is to regis- tion and to make a preliminary schedule. ter. You will pick up your badge there, which allows you en- Download the Grenadine Event Guide (available on iOS trance to all programme items, exhibits, and parties. Keep and Android) and check the worldcon.fi website for the it visible. The lines for registration – and other things, such code for this specific convention. Please note that there as signings – may be long, so please be patient. are bound to be changes before (and even during!) the Another thing you should do as soon as possible is to convention, so it’s a good idea to check the programme register for any KaffeeKlatsches you might like to attend. guide regularly. There’s a good chance interesting items KaffeeKlatsches only accept a very limited number of will overlap, so if you’ve found out a way of cloning your- participants, so they will fill up quickly. The sign-up for 5 KaffeeKlatsches happens at the info-desk and only one day An important thing to remember – and easy to forget of Klatsches will be available for the sign-up at the time (to – is to eat, drink, and sleep enough! Don’t be like that one prevent people from coming in on Wednesday and filling con-goer who completely forgot to eat during a 10h con- in all the slots for all the Klatsches during the five days). vention because there was so much fun stuff to do and If you have any questions about the convention, the in- then nearly passed out! (Hint: They wrote this article!) fo-desk is there to help you with them! They’ll know or at There are restaurants in and around Messukeskus – and least they’ll know who will know! remember to drink water too! Go see programme items, see the authors you came to Finally, one more piece of advice: Don’t panic! see – but consider also going to see items by people you have never even heard of before! And perhaps even top- ics you never thought might be interesting! Many times a kaffeeklatsches complete “unknown” may turn out to be super interesting KaffeeKlatsches are small gatherings with an author (or and you may even discover a new favorite author this way! other interesting person!) and approximately 10 people. While authors are at the convention to meet people and These really allow you to meet with interesting people – to be in the programme, they are there as regular members and naturally fill up quite fast! Drinking coffee is optional. too, so please respect their privacy. Sometimes they also need a bit of peace and quiet. Also, if you do want to take a picture of them – or anybody!! – please ask for their permission. grenadine Grenadine is an electronic programme guide (available for iOS and Android – look for Grenadine Event Guide). You meet other fans can use it to create your own schedules and it’s also used Worldcon is a great place to meet people who share your to post any changes in the programme. interests so do talk to people – even strangers. One way of finding like-minded people is to attend one of the sched- uled fandom meet-ups!