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− | '''The [[WSFS]] Business Meeting''' is held each year at [[Worldcon]] and makes the rules which govern [[Worldcon]] and the [[Hugo Awards]].
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− | The BM consists of three meetings, usually held from 10 a.m. to noon on the three middle days of the convention (Friday, Saturday and Sunday for a "normal" Worldcon which ends on Monday).
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− | On the first day, the Preliminary BM hears [[WSFS committee]] reports and prepares the agenda for the second meeting. Nominations to the open seats on the [[Mark Protection Committee]]) are sought. (In addition, each Worldcon appoints a member to the [[Mark Protection Committee]].) And volunteers are allowed for the [[Nitpicking and Flyspecking Committee]], the [[Worldcon Runners Guide Editorial Committee]], and the the Hugo Eligibility Rest of the World Committee ([[HEROW]]).
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− | Preparing the agenda includes taking business which has been submitted, possibly rejecting some of it as not worth considering, possibly merging motions, considering and perhaps passing changes to the [[WSFS Standing Rules]], making other procedural motions, and setting time limits for debate.
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− | On the second day, the formal business session, submitted motions are debated, amended and passed or defeated. Since debate time is strictly limited, it's difficult to hold a substantive debate at this meeting, so usually the issues involved have already been widely [[smof|smoffed]] in [[fandom]] — in [[fanzines]], on email lists like the [[Smofs list]], on social media and blogs and at smaller [[cons]].
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− | On the third day, the [[site selection]] meeting. The [[site selection administrator]] presents the results of the vote, the BM ratifies it and orders the ballots destroyed, the winning [[bid]] makes a presentation, and the meeting then moves to Question Time wherein the upcoming [[Worldcon]] and [[Worldcon bidders]] make brief presentations and take questions form the people present. In theory, this meeting could consider business, but this practically never happens. (In fact, there is provision for a fourth session of the BM, just in case; the first time it was needed was at [[Sasquan]] in 2015, to consider proposals to prevent [[sad puppies|Puppification]].)
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− | Participation in the [[WSFS]] BM is limited to --smofs-- [[attending members]] on site at the current [[Worldcon]], though any member may submit business. Attendance varies, but is usually between 100 and 200 people, most of whom attend every year. Proxies are not allowed.
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− | The Business Meeting is governed by Roberts' Rules of Order as modified by a few special practices adopted by [[WSFS]]. Proceedings are fairly formal with strict time limits on debate.
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− | Originally, when [[Worldcon]] had a single [[track]] of programming, the BM was a one-hour item in the program presided over by the [[chairman]] of the [[Worldcon]]. It voted on the rules and selected the location of the next Worldcon in an informal process with its rules varying considerably from year to year. During the 1960s, the [[WSFS Constitution]] became formalized and by the beginning of the '70s, the [[WSFS]] Business Meeting had developed into a formal process for making the governing rules.
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− | [[Worldcon site selection]] moved to a combination of a mail and an at-con ballot under the management of a [[site selection administrator]], and the role of the [[WSFS]] BM changed to one of formally accepting the results of that vote rather than of conducting the vote in the meeting.
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− | Additionally, with the development of multi-track programming, the [[WSFS]] BM ceased to be a plenary meeting of the entire [[convention]] membership and became a meeting of just those members who show up. Many [[fans]] never attend the BM, some attend only when a proposal of special interest is on the agenda, while others would never miss it.
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− | {{link | website=https://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=kevin_standlee|text=Kevin Standlee's blog at Worldcon time gives a detailed account of how the meetings work from perspective of the meeting's chair}}
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