Appendix C: Report of the Nitpicking & Flyspecking Committee
Report of the Nitpicking & Flyspecking Committee
The committee reports below the compilation of items from the 2000 Worldcon, together with the collected items from earlier Worldcons. The committee continues to use a definition of "likely to continue to have effect for more than a year" as "continuing". Items appearing with a "BM" in them were motions passed by the Business Meeting while items with a "CH" in them are rulings or opinions of the Chair.
The committee intends to make this full cumulative report available through its web page.
At San Antonio, the committee was charged with codifying the "customs and usages of WSFS" in light of the recent constitutional amendment which refers to such matters.
As a first step in this research, Tim Illingworth & Pat McMurray have OCRed and corrected the WSFS Business Meeting minutes for 1974, and 1979-1992. 1993-date are available elsewhere (through Saul Jaffe). Minutes for all Business Meetings from 1979 to date are now available to any interested party.
These minutes are currently held in Word 6 format, and should be available from Tim’s web site (www.smof.demon.co.uk) Real Soon Now. The 1979 minutes are a report constructed from Ben Yalow's copy of the agenda of the Main Meeting with contemporaneous annotations.
As an extract from these documents, a list has been prepared of all amendments to the WSFS Constitution and Standing Rules proposed since 1979, together with their amendment and disposal. The abbreviation ‘OTC’ has been used to keep the document length within almost reasonable bounds.
An update of the Annotated Standing Rules (originally prepared by the Standing Rules Working Group in 1996) has also been prepared.
Pursuant to BM-94-1, www.wsfs.org has been updated, and copies of documents have been supplied to Saul Jaffe for the SF-Lovers archive.
Don Eastlake
Tim Illingworth
Kevin Standlee
The NP&FSC moves the adoption of the following motions:
1.2.1. Short Title: 1776 And All That
Resolved, That Someone Ought To Open Up A Window!
1.2.2. Short Title: Committees
Moved, To insert the following new Standing Rules in Group 7:
Rule 7.x: Nitpicking and Flyspecking Committee. The Business Meeting shall appoint a Nitpicking and Flyspecking Committee. The Committee shall:
(1) Maintain the list of Rulings and Resolutions of Continuing Effect
(2) Codify the Customs and Usages of WSFS and of the Business Meeting.
Rule 7.y: Worldcon Runners’ Guide Editorial Committee. The Business Meeting shall appoint a Worldcon Runners’ Guide Editorial Committee. The Committee shall maintain the Worldcon Runners’ Guide, which shall contain a compilation of the best practices in use among those who run Worldcons.
1.2.3. Short Title: Continue NP&FSC
Resolved, That the WSFS Nitpicking and Flyspecking Committee is continued as previously constituted.