#glasgow-2024 — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 Attention Glasgow WSFS members! 🚨

Want to nominate for the upcoming awards? Make sure you checked the box to pass your information along! If you missed it, reach out to Glasgow 2024 registration ASAP to get it sorted. ✅ #WSFS #Glasgow2024 #SciFiAwards

Anyone wants to help me nominate moringmark's #TheOwlHouse fanart for this year's #HugoAwards ?

Wildly different target audiences, I know, but I'd thought I'd throw it out there, especially since the #Glasgow2024 nominations seemed quite eclectic.

Octothorpe 122 is here! We discuss letters of comment, hybrid conventions, awards and the recent news about Oghenochovwe Donald Ekpeki. Pumpkin carved by our very own Alison Scott. Listen here! https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/122-topical-pumpkin/

#ScienceFiction #Podcast #Worldcon #Glasgow2024

Latest in my series of blogposts on Ken MacLeod's fiction. Here, I look in detail at the Engines of Light trilogy, a key work. Also some notes on the Dialectic, Historical Materialism, and the Scottish Programme.
#sf #sff #scottishsff #kenmacleod #RoadtoGlasgow2024 #Glasgow2024 #worldcon #enginesoflight

https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/road-from-glasgow-2024-ken-macleod-engines-of-light-cosmonaut-keep-orbit-2000-dark-light-orbit-2001-and-engine-city-orbit-2002/

In this episode, we do rather fewer letters of comment than last episode, and then we let Liz do her favourite topic of all: STATISTICS. Listen here! https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/120-activate-liz/

#HugoAwards #Worldcon #Glasgow2024

We respond to your burning questions in our bumper mailbag episode! We spend a good long time going through your posts, and we briefly discuss the recent allegations against Neil Gaiman before moving onto happier topics. Listen here. https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/119-only-one-of-them-is-my-bludgeoning-hand-john/

#NeilGaiman #ScienceFiction #Podcast #HugoAwards #Glasgow2024 #Worldcon

Episode 118 is here! We round off most of our discussion of the Glasgow Worldcon, including talking about Halls 4 and 5, communications, Worldcon structures, and publications. Thanks to Sara Felix, this week, for providing our lovely artwork. Listen here! https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/118-och-aye-sci-fi/

#ScienceFiction #Worldcon #Worldcon2024 #Glasgow2024 #Podcast #HugoAwards

Now working my way through the online-only panels from #Glasgow2024. I appreciate that the program(me) department did separate panels on some topics for both online and in-person, allowing more perspectives on a subject than could be accommodated in a single session of either modality. Hopefully the @seattlein2025 team will follow this example.

As part of his follow-ups from the #Glasgow2024 #HugoAwards and #WSFS admin roles, @nwhyte wrote up a piece on the consultative vote taken on one of the constitutional amendments proposed at that Worldcon: https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-2024-consultative-vote-on-two-new-hugo-categories/

Aside from the nod to me (thanks!) I really like the nuanced examination of when these might be a good idea and not.

Finally getting around to watching the #Glasgow2024 videos. Unfortunately most of the talks I wanted to see were not in rooms that had recording.

Octothorpe 117 is here! We discuss the recent Worldcon, Glasgow 2024, talking mostly about registration, attendance, and programme. Spoiler: we quite liked it, listeners. Listen here! https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/117-you-made-that-joke-last-time-john/

#ScienceFiction #Podcast #HugoAwards #Worldcon #Glasgow2024

The process of “Getting NomNom to be suitable to make new Worldcons" has definitely unspooled into a lot of work:

- choose a templating tool (copier)
- implement a template (took most of the morning,based on the #Glasgow2024 site)
- convert NomNom from a Django app into a library
- move all the apps into the nomnom namespace --> a LOT of search/replace
- add CI for it
- realize that I need to package up the svcs integration
- start a whole new project on GitHub
- rathole on tests

Guten Abend 🌏 🌒

Vögel in der Kunst

#streetart #Glasgow2024 #bluetit #birds

Trip Report: 9,200 words about my trip to #Glasgow2024 #Worldcon (plus four days in England)

http://blog.bimajority.org/2024/08/21/trip-report-glasgow-2024-worldcon-plus-four-days-in-england/

I went to Scotland for two weeks (and a #Glasgow2024 #Worldcon) and all I got was these whiskies and no COVID. #whisky #scotch

Pretty sure i've not bought COVID home from #glasgow2024, but two friends I was gaming with on Sunday have succumbed so I continue shoving sticks up my nostrils for another few days...

All these negative tests though - should I appeal?

Still watching replays of #worldcon panels and I can recommend the Linguistic futures series of talks. The 1. speaker summarized the many #sff and #fandom words that have found their way into the OED. The review takes years because they stay there forever, so check the waiting list first; you can suggest additions here:
https://pages.oup.com/ol/cus/1646173949115570121/submit-words-and-evidence-to-the-oed
The 2. talk was about animal languages in sff and how their distinct perspectives might influence their language.
#Glasgow2024 #linguistics

OK, just over 7,000 words and I still haven't even written the actual Glasgow part of my #Glasgow2024 trip report. Going to be another few days, I guess.

A few photos from this year’s #Worldcon – #Glasgow2024. Just a few panels I attended, and some from Irish Video Game Orchestra concert. Also a video from Seanchas nan Gàidheal talk/concert.

But if anyone’s interested, they’re here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/WPmVVsi2WCeA2hB67 :)

I still have some photos from Hugo Awards ceremony to upload, but there are a lot more better ones online already.

#IVGO #m43 #olympus #em5mark3

I've started drawing up a list of key Worldcon programme items I missed so that I can go back and watch the reply of them. I fear I will have to ruthlessly triage this list if I am not to be spending the rest of my life watching recordings of Glasgow Worldcon panels.

#Worldcon #Worldcon2024 #Glasgow2024

The live episode from Glasgow 2024 is here! We know you all expect the live episodes to be a bit less structured and organised than the recorded ones, but the three of us had had even less sleep than usual and so it's a bit more chaotic than usual… normal service will resume in 117!

Listen here: https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/116-i-m-not-absolutely-sure-i-voted/

#ScienceFiction #Podcast #HugoAwards #Glasgow2024

Finally looking at the Worldcon Discord with a view to picking up reading suggestions etc. for panels I was interested in and wishing all the panels had their own dedicated Discord space like with the Academic track, as opposed to the room-based splodge there seems to be for everything else.

#Worldcon2024 #Worldcon #Glasgow2024

Happily doing my dangerous edits now with the #Worldcon2024 Philharmonic playing in the background. 😁 #Glasgow2024 #ForOurFutures (hopefully music will soothe the savage manuscript and it won't cut me again)

Other than COVID, the other other things we brought back from #Glasgow2024 were some paintings. We won bids on three paintings by @FredGambino , and one on a Mars landscape painting by Linda Marques. Someone gazumped us to her Neptune Station painting.

We need to get the Gambino ones re-framed to match the frame styles for our other Gambino/Foss pieces.

I couldn't resist and got this little guy I drew for the Worldcon Souvenir Book printed as a sticker :blobfoxaww:

#worldcon #Glasgow2024

Only started having symptoms yesterday I think #Glasgow2024