Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:52:19 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at panix.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A DC hotels question
Cc: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 11:04 AM 10/29/2006, dicconf wrote:

>On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Samuel Lubell wrote:
>
> > If the problem with the Connecticut Ave. hotels is the lack of space
> > for big tent events, how about trying to bid for a NASFIC?  That's a
> > smaller convention and doesn't have the Hugos.
> >
> > Would WSFA be interested in trying for a Nasfic?
>
>If the Geneva bid is serious, maybe we could hold a con in 2010 after all.
>But _is_ it, or did they give up/intend it as a joke?

The 'Geneva bid' is a hoax bid.  It was put together at Balticon when Vince
happened to be in town.  He'd already cochaired one Worldcon and was now
cochairing Interaction, both in Scotland. Combine him with several other
people who happened to be in town at the time and things got . . . well,
things got.

The Aussie bid for 2010 also sort of started as a joke but by the next day
there were T-shirts, receipts for presupports (there was already at least
$1000 worth) and Stephen, while still looking stunned, had slipped into
talking about the bid as being real.  By the end of that Worldcon, ConJose,
it was a real bid and is now reported on with all the rest of the bids and
conventions at the WSFS business meeting.

I'll add that the reason Stephen wound up in this situation is that there
was an informal party with a lot of the people who put together Worldcons
and Worldcon bids.  It was somewhat inebriated out and at some point
someone teased him about Chairing a NASFIC.  His response was "A
NASFIC?  I'd rather Chair a Worldcon!"  Always be careful what you say
around that group.

Anyway, we closed down the DC Worldcon bid because not enough people wanted
to work on it.  And Geneva, Scotland, Australia, or Timbuktu a lot of us
work on and go to the Worldcon which leaves even fewer people.

Elspeth