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News
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 16th 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
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