MidAmeriCon II, the 2016 Worldcon, is posting its Progress Reports and other publications as free reads online. Currently available: The Possum Trot Le Zombie-Picayune, also known as Progress Report Zed, announcing the GoH’s and cost of membership (4 pages) The … Continue reading
MidAmeriCon II will continue the successful strategy of running a contest to find a great design for the 2016 Hugo base. Design proposals must be submitted by January 18, 2016. All submissions need to include: Drawings, sketches, and, preferably, a … Continue reading
The pass-along policy is a commitment to distribute at least one-half of a Worldcon’s surplus to the next three Worldcons that make the same promise. Last year’s Worldcon, MidAmeriCon II, benefitted from that policy and now is paying it forward. … Continue reading
MidAmeriCon II, the 2016 Worldcon, has shared statistics about Code of Conduct issues handled by the Incident Response Team. Although a few instances resulted in public announcements, they generally will not be commenting on any of the details. MidAmeriCon II received … Continue reading
The MidAmeriCon II Incident Response Team Handbook, scrubbed of personal identifying information, has been posted online by IRT head Kris Snyder for use or adaptation by other conrunning groups. A lot of conventions that have followed the trend of the … Continue reading
Mark Oshiro (Mark Watches Star Trek) announced on Facebook he will be a member of MidAmeriCon II’s Incident Response Team, which responds to code of conduct violations, or people’s other problems with members of the con. I am the Deputy … Continue reading
The 2016 Worldcon, MidAmeriCon II, has made Progress Report #3 available in electronic format at the convention’s website. It’s a free read, and can be viewed online or downloaded as a PDF file. Members who requested printed publications will receive … Continue reading
MidAmeriCon II has announced the winners of the contest to design and produce this year’s Hugo bases. The 2016 Hugo Award base will be created by Sara Felix of Austin, who is also the current president of the Association of … Continue reading
The MidAmeriCon II, which announced on February 7 that all online Hugo voting PINS had been sent, gave a status report on Twitter and Facebook today about a problem that will require some to be sent again: Our Hugo team … Continue reading
The Sasquan and MidAmeriCon II committees responded to File 770’s query about the transfer of anonymized raw 2015 Hugo nominating ballot data for use in testing the proposed E Pluribus Hugo vote tallying method. Linda Deneroff, Sasquan’s WSFS (World Science Fiction … Continue reading