Kevin Roche, chair of Worldcon 76 in San Jose, posted a status report on Facebook about the online conversion/upgrade process that presupporters have been awaiting.

Kevin here, wearing his conference chair hat.

We’re thrilled at how enthusiastic everyone is about converting/upgrading their memberships, and we acknowledge it has taken longer than we expected to open the conversion process. We have at least 50 possible permutations of the upgrade path, and we want to make sure they all work. With ~1300 hand-transcribed voter forms, we want to keep glitches down to a minimum.

The good news is that we are in final testing of the voter conversion process and expect to send those invitations in the next few days.
In more good news, if you presupported the bid (and did not automatically convert to an attending membership) you may now log in to the regonline system via the “View or Change Your Existing Registration” link and should be able to access the Upgrade Memberships page once you log in. (If you did not set or do not remember the password you set there is a link to reset it.)

We have scanned the site selection records to ensure that pre-supporters voting status is reflected in their records.

Note: after we get the voter conversion invitations sent out, we will be sending more detailed instructions for upgrading presupporting memberships.

Thank you for your patience; the registration “doors” will open soon.

Main registration is accessible via http://www.regonline.com/worldcon76

PS: We think we’ve found and corrected all the typos in that 50-permutations set of paths. If you spot one, let us know and maybe you’ll get a t-shirt.

[Thanks to JJ for the story.]