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What's Happening with Worldcon 76? Registration and Rate Changes

A quick update on Worldcon 76 as we come to the end of 2016: 

If you haven't been watching our Facebook page, you may have missed some recent announcements about registration. We are working on bringing that here to the website as well, but for now here's what you need to know.

Most of our activity on Worldcon 76 is still behind-the-scenes. We've started building up our program, events, and exhibits divisions, and they are diving right into designing our convention; we want to make it as spectacular as we can. While that has been going on, there have been a number of developments on the membership front that you might want to know about:

  • If you voted in Site Selection for Worldcon 76, you should have received notification* by this point on how to complete updating your registration status in our system. The process is slightly different for folk who did not pre-support the San Jose bid than for those who did.
    • If you did not pre-support, your information had to be transcribed from paper forms. That information was not quite enough to fill in all the blanks on our registration forms.
    • If you voted but did not pre-support, and did not  receive an email invitation explaining how to complete registration for your supporting membership, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we'll try to get to the bottom of things. It could be as simple as human error in the transcription process.
    • If you pre-supported San Jose in 2018, you are already in our registration system and can log back in to upgrade your membership. We've prepared a step-by-step slideshow to show you just how to do it. (Mobile users may find the document version easier to read.) We believe that everyone who pre-supported and voted has been properly tagged in the system, but if, once you have logged in, your membership status seems incorrect, again, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so we can correct matters.

      *Note: We are using an outside vendor, RegOnline.com, for our registration process and database. This lets us take advantage of its privacy protections and payment and lodging integrations. Unfortunately, some email handlers may classify messages from that system as spam. So if you have not received a message, and you think you should have, take a peek in your spam folder!
  • Please note that January 31, 2017 is an important date for two reasons:
    1. It is the final date for us to transmit membership information to Worldcon 75 (Helsinki) for the process of determining eligibility to nominate for the 2017 Hugo Awards. If you wish to participate in the nomination process, you must be a valid supporting member of Worldcon 75 or Worldcon 76 by that date. (Members of MidAmeriCon 2, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, are also eligible to nominate, but we are not responsible for transmitting that data.)
    2. It is the final date to register at our early-bird membership rates. The rate for Attending Adult Memberships increases to $190 at 12:01AM Pacific Time on February 1, 2017.

We hope you and yours have enjoyed a pleasant holiday season as 2016 winds to a close; you can expect to see many more announcements and changes on this website as 2017 begins!

Kevin Roche

Conference Chair, Worldcon 76

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Kevin Roche is the chair of Worldcon 76 in San Jose.

Kevin is “a fan for all seasons,” with extensive experience in convention running and many other aspects of SF/F genre conventions. He co-chaired Westercon 66 in Sacramento in 2013 and chaired Costume-Con 26 in San José in 2008. Worldcon attendees will have most recently seen him as Masquerade Master of Ceremonies at the 2015 Worldcon, Sasquan. He also co-directed the 2011 Worldcon’s Masquerade as well as Masquerades at Anime Los Angeles, Westercon, and BayCon. He has been part of convention programming teams at several past Worldcons.

Kevin has extensive and well-received convention hospitality experience, including running the convention hospitality suite at the 2009 World Fantasy Convention in San José, and recently as bartender for the Helsinki in 2017 Worldcon bid. Fans across the USA have seen him as Fan Guest of Honor at conventions from the San Francisco Bay Area to Texas, Iowa, and Boston. He also has conference organization experience outside of the SF/F genre, having been the event registrar for scientific events (SpinCurrents 2009, SpinAge 2010, and Superconductivity 297k! organized under the direction of IBM Fellow Dr. Stuart SP Parkin).

Kevin has been making costumes since he was 8, and continues dressing funny to this day. In his secret identity as a research scientist at IBM Research Almaden, he's hard at work wrangling giant robot vacuum chambers and electrons in atomically engineered materials, and has recently joined the IBM Q quantum outreach team.

 

Kevin is also created Thinbot, the gold-medal winner in robotic bartending at Robogames, the international robotics competition, in 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016. Thinbot is not infrequently found hard at work serving visitors to Kevin and Andy's parties at conventions.

As part of the San Jose Worldcon bid, Kevin designed and constructed the San Jose Galactic LIght Tower, a 32’ tall (1/10 scale) replica of the historic San Jose Electric Light Tower, which was first exhibited at MidAmeriCon II, the 2016 Worldcon in Kansas City last August. The tower incorporates 3000 addressable animated LEDs, controlled via cell phone app. (photos of the tower are also viewable at its facebook gallery)
Kevin is also the editor of Yipe! The Costume Fanzine of Record (www.yipezine.com),

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