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Sunday, June 28, 2009

The elected officers of the Northwest Science Fiction Society (NWSFS) and Norwescon invite you to learn more about our long shared history and to a brainstorm how we can partner in the future to support the goals of both organizations.

Are you longing for Norwescon to have non-profit status with the IRS (501 c 3)?

Do you want to share your love of the Northwest Science Fiction Society (NWSFS) with others?

Would you like to attract more volunteers to Norwescon?

Do you want to bring new ideas to NWSFS and Norwescon?

Do you want Norwescon and NWSFS to have a more fannish focus?

How can NWSFS and Norwescon work together to benefit fans around the Northwest? Don’t miss this opportunity to share your ideas. The elected officers of NWSFS and Norwescon need your ideas to create a future.

July 26, 2009

Noon – 4:45 PM

Lake City Branch, Seattle Public Library

12501 28th Ave. N.E.
Seattle, WA 98125
206-684-7518

http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=branch_open&branchID=15

RSVP to jeanine@norwescon.org

NWSFS and Norwescon are part of Science Fiction Northwest (SFN), a non- profit umbrella corporation. The early beginnings of the Northwest Science Fiction Society trace back to the mists of time. Well, to 1976. Greg Bennett with a handful of friends formed NWSFS (pronounced Nizz-Fizz) so that people with an interest in science fiction could meet, have parties, do things together and at the same time provide a pool for the 1981 World Science Fiction Convention Committee. For more information, please visit Don Glover's Norwescon Unofficial History web site

Visit http://www.nwsfs.org for more information about the Northwest Science Fiction Society.

Visit http://www.norwescon.org for more information about Norwescon.

Saturday, June  20, 2009

Norwescon 33 Executive Team announced
On May 31, 2009, Chairman Tracy Knoedler and Vice Chairman Jeanine Swanson announced their selections for the Norwescon 33 Executive Team:
Treasurer – Eric Weber
Secretary – Pearl Lawson
Business Director – Mike Orosz
Convention Services Director – Charlie Knoedler
Membership Services Director – Catrina Foulger
Personnel Director – Shawn Marier
Programming Director – Rob Stewart
Publications Director – Adrienne Loska
Special Events Director – Peggy Stewart

Wednesday May 20th, 2009

New special guest added
We are pleased to announce that Cory Doctorow has been added as a special guest for Norwescon 33.

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. In 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg
Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

His novels are published by Tor Books and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work. He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His latest novel, New York Times Bestseller LITTLE BROTHER, was published in May 2008, and his latest short story collection is OVERCLOCKED: STORIES OF THE FUTURE PRESENT. In 2008, Tachyon Books published a collection of his essays, called CONTENT: SELECTED ESSAYS ON TECHNOLOGY, CREATIVITY, COPYRIGHT AND THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE (with an introduction by John Perry Barlow) and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired by his short fiction called CORY DOCTOROW'S FUTURISTIC TALES OF THE HERE AND NOW. His next novel is MAKERS, due from Tor Books in October, 2009.

He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, sold to OpenText, Inc in 2003, and presently serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, Inc, the Organization for Transformative Works, Areae, the Annenberg Center for the Study of Online Communities, and Onion Networks, Inc.

In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called him, "The William Gibson of his generation." He was also named one of Forbes Magazine's 2007/8 Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders for 2007.

He is presently working on a new young adult novel, FOR THE WIN (about union organizing in video games).

On February 3, 2008, he became a father. The little girl is called Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, and is a marvel that puts all the works of technology and artifice to shame.

Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Elections were held for the officers of Norwescon 33 on Saturday May 16^th with Christy Berlemann, Rob Stewart and Ali Grieve on this year’s election committee.  The results were:

Chairman

Becky Citrak                            28
Tracy Knoedler                        61
No Preference                           4
None of the Above                    0

Vice-Chairman

Jeanine Swanson                    89
No Preference                           1
None of the Above                    2

GOH Selection Committee

Barry Currey                              28
Denise Prowse                        49
Doug Booze                             53
Felice Nightengale                  23
Jeffrey Cornish                        24
No Preference                           0
None of the Above                    0

Congratulations to Tracy, Jeanine, Denise and Doug and thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s election.

Doug Booze
Norwescon Elections