Assorted Updates
Nov. 10th, 2022 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperJust a couple of updates on recent posts:
The interactive (smaller) and print (huge) versions of the Windycon 48 program book are now available on the front page of the Windycon website. I highly encourage you all to download it and take a look at it, as it has the long-form bios of all of our guests, along with program updates that may be newer than what are in the program list on the website itself.
(It is also noteworthy that the program book has 7.5 pages of information on our panels and 6.5 pages of information on our policies. I find the fact that our policies *could* be boiled down to "don't do stupid things" in most cases, possibly along with an addendum that says "treat other people well" -- although I'd like to think that's covered by the first statement -- but that doesn't seem to be clear enough for some folks to interpret correctly. Thus, we have words. Oh, so many words.)
Moving on from Windycon to the not-so-secret ballot problem. There was a discussion going on over at NextDoor, which is yet another social networking site which covers the local area, and various election things were being discussed. I explained how my ballot had been handled and someone there who seems to be up the food chain in the training of election judges is apparently going to be having a discussion with our local judges, because my paper ballot should have been initialed before it was ever handed to me. Also, I should have been given a privacy shield for it.
This jibes with my memory of how things had been handled in the past, so I am somewhat reassured that there is someone who actually cares about these issues and is going to try to get it fixed.
And that's the news!
The interactive (smaller) and print (huge) versions of the Windycon 48 program book are now available on the front page of the Windycon website. I highly encourage you all to download it and take a look at it, as it has the long-form bios of all of our guests, along with program updates that may be newer than what are in the program list on the website itself.
(It is also noteworthy that the program book has 7.5 pages of information on our panels and 6.5 pages of information on our policies. I find the fact that our policies *could* be boiled down to "don't do stupid things" in most cases, possibly along with an addendum that says "treat other people well" -- although I'd like to think that's covered by the first statement -- but that doesn't seem to be clear enough for some folks to interpret correctly. Thus, we have words. Oh, so many words.)
Moving on from Windycon to the not-so-secret ballot problem. There was a discussion going on over at NextDoor, which is yet another social networking site which covers the local area, and various election things were being discussed. I explained how my ballot had been handled and someone there who seems to be up the food chain in the training of election judges is apparently going to be having a discussion with our local judges, because my paper ballot should have been initialed before it was ever handed to me. Also, I should have been given a privacy shield for it.
This jibes with my memory of how things had been handled in the past, so I am somewhat reassured that there is someone who actually cares about these issues and is going to try to get it fixed.
And that's the news!
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Date: 2022-11-10 04:56 pm (UTC)