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The merchandise team selling T-shirts and other memorabilia.
Merchandise Update
The Merchandise table is rapidly selling out of some of the T-shirt sizes. If you want one, make sure to get over there as soon as possible.
Membership Numbers
As of this morning, we have issued 6,619 membership badges, including:
3,299 Adult
1,257 First Worldcon
631 Scottish Resident
602 Online
Terri Windling and her husband, Howard sitting on stage.
Byddwch yn Ymwybodol!
The SEC is required by law to be very strict about room capacity and crowds that may impair everyone’s ability to exit in case of an emergency.
Meeting rooms and the exhibition halls will have SEC stewards at the entrances. They will be in a uniform, with a white shirt and blue and red striped tie, with or without a blue jacket or cardigan.
Byddwch yn Ymwybodol! (2)
Please keep in mind the following:
•Standing in the back of a meeting room is not allowed unless a steward has given permission.
•If an event is labelled as being for those 18 or over, the steward may request proof of age if there is any question. Even if accompanied by a parent, those under 18 will not be admitted.
•Do not linger in the doorway to see if a panel is interesting. Please move into the room and find a seat. The steward at the door will remind you to please take a seat.
•If the steward says the room is full, please find another event to attend.
•If a steward asks you to move along, please do so promptly, as you may be creating a choke point in the traffic flow.
Byddwch yn Ymwybodol!
(short version)
Don’t overcrowd the rooms.
Please cooperate with the SEC stewards if they ask you to move.
Be sensible. Get there as early as you can! Even panellists are being turned away.
A group of around fifty fans posing for a photo and facing the camera.
Safer Spaces Location
They are on the first floor of bedrooms in the Crowne Plaza, not by the first-floor meeting rooms.
BIPOC Safer Space: Room 112
LGBTQ+ Safer Space: Room 115
Fan Funds Auction
The fan funds auction (20:30 Sat, Alsh 1), is selling all sorts of amazing things, from a signed Stephen King first edition through to Colin Baker’s (hopefully unused) signed underwear.
See the full catalogue at https://bit.ly/G2024ffcat. If you’re not in the room but would like to bid, please join the zoom at https://bit.ly/
FanFundsZoom, ideally by 20:24.
A photograph of a sunset, almost all in shades of blue, printed on aluminium.
Party! Party!
Parties in Hall 4 from 20:00 on Saturday evening:
Reconnect
Hal-Con
Dublin in 2029
Seattle 2025
Montreal in 2027
IRMN (Royal Manticoran Navy)
Code of Conduct
If you are having problems that you believe might be related to a CoC violation, we hope you will reach out to our Listeners team in Hall 4.
As of today, the Listeners Incident Tracking & Response System (LITRS) is now available at https://listeners.glasgow2024.org/ which is in addition to the existing routes listed on the CoC Addenda page: “Methods of Reporting”.
Kieron Gillen sitting at a table with several other people and gesticulating.
Communicable Diseases
There is now a “disease-self-reporting” channel in the con Discord. If you wish to report that you have contracted any easily communicable disease, including Covid-19, you may do so in this channel. The channel is for reporting only; no discussion may be posted there.
A large puppet with an alien appearance, surrounded by several smaller and more humanoid puppets of past SF Writers, and copies of a magazine called Planet Stories.
Programme Change
Martha Wells’ reading is now on Sunday, from 12:00-12:30 in Argyll 3 in the Crowne Plaza.
Code of Conduct (2)
We would like to remind all members that the convention’s Code of Conduct applies to online spaces as well as in-person interactions.
A paper flower with a yellow centre, white petals with words printed on them, and orange and red petals further out.
Business Meeting Update
Today’s business meeting session set up committees to investigate the administration of the 2023 Hugo Awards, and to study alternatives to the business meeting as currently constituted.
It also passed a resolution apologising to all those affected by irregularities in the administration of the 2023 Hugo Awards.
Credits
Thanks to Steve Davies, Ian Brogan, Glasgow photo pool, Sean Berry, Effy, Rebecca Montgomery & Mike Scott.
Unicorn logo by Sue Mason.
Thanks to Listeners, Accessibility and Tech.