Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:31:33 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>, <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
Cc: <mike.nelson at seahunt.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: minders
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>	Are we losing the bubble on Capclave?

Earlier would have been better, fliers at Lunacon would have been nice.  =
But we must have info out at Balticon - our best source of *local* folks.

 Could we hear some
>discussion
>from the con committee, please?  /s/ Lee the Volunteer (one of many)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith F. Lynch [mailto:kfl at keithlynch.net]
>Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:16 PM
>To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
>Cc: mike.nelson at seahunt.org
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: minders
>
>WSFA Fifth Friday party at my apartment, tomorrow.  See
>http://www.wsfa.org/calendar.htm
>
>Sunday is the deadline for Hugo nominations.  Open to all members of
>MilPhil and to all members of ConJose.  (But you can't nominate twice if
>you're a member of both.)  See http://www.conjose.org/wsfs/wsfs_hugo.html=

>
>Capclave.  Remember that?  Four weeks ago tomorrow it was announced
>that we had a contract with a hotel and it was ready to be signed.
>Since then, nothing has been announced at the Third Friday meeting,
>at Lunacon, on this list, or anywhere else that I'm aware of.  Is
>anything happening?  Does anyone care?  Is there anything I can do
>to help move things along?
>
>Last year Capclave was announced in IASFM.  It's probably already too
>late to announce it there this year.

If someone has a copy of IASFM handy, could they check on this?

Plus, info to Locus & SFC.

> Other doors are closing to us
>day by day.  I think I speak for all WSFAns when I say we would like
>to be kept informed, even if the news is bad.
>--

I think the news is not so much bad, but just a lot of "hurry up & wait."  =
& the wait is on Mr Nelson's GoH choice.  I think it would be useful to =
add to the hook, the bait of a GoH, in addition to the delightful CapClave =
itself.

mjw

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