Tonight is our 3rd Friday meeting at the Madigan’s house. Directions are listed on our webcalendar.

If you’ve been considering attending a WSFA Meeting, feel free to join us. We have our business meeting first followed by socializing and talk.

For 1st Friday in April, we had Tom Doyle, winner of the 2008 WSFA Small Press Award, read his short story, “Consensus Building”. The story was originally published in Futurismic in 2005. The reading took place after the business meeting and many of the members stayed for the reading. Tom is a great reader and read with intonation and a strong sense of timing and the dramatic. He even heightened the tension of waiting to find out what happens next by pausing at each section break to sip water with great deliberation.

We hung on every word. The story was set in the near future dealing with implanted chips that could allow people to interface with each other, sharpen memory/recall, and act as a personal PDA. However, things could, of course, go wrong. What happens, and how, made for a very chilling story that really stays with you.

Tom graciously answered questions after and participated in a general discussion among members about technology and society and related issue.

This is WSFA’s second guest event with a reading — for this past Friday — Thanks, Tom, for a great evening.

Tom Doyle, winner of the second WSFA Small Press Award, will be doing a reading at 10 PM April 2, 2010. This will follow the First Friday meeting at Sam and Judy’s. He is reading “Consensus Building”. This story is from 2005. There will be a Q&A after the reading.

It’s been a long time coming but what you’re looking at now is WSFA’s new website. The site is running on WordPress. The officers will be given access and will be able to put up announcements. Along the right side you’ll see links to websites maintained by WSFA including the WSFA Calendar. Along the top are links WSFA information: Officers, History, Journal, and Business.

The object in moving to this system is to have our website be more flexible and easily updated. At this time, several of the links leading to older pages will open in new windows since they have not yet been entered into the content management system that is being used as the backend. Please let the webmasters know if you find any links that do not work (webmasters at wsfa dot org).

The February 19th, 2010 WSFA meeting was called to order at 9:29 pm. President Judy Newton presided and Secretary Sam Lubell took notes. There was a quorum (after some debate and a couple of people paid their dues. There was no meeting first Friday due to a blizzard. Steve said, “No one showed up, as people were not complete idiots.” Judy said the meeting was called off due to act of god.

Click the link for the full text of the March-April 2010 WSFA Journal, including the Minutes of the February 19 / March 5, 19 2010 meetings.

WSFA Journal March-April 2010

Note: Publication date is set to the date of the Journal, rather than the date posted, for indexing purposes

Meeting called to order at 9:23 PM by President Judy Newton
Officers:
President: Judy Newton
— Happy New Year. Is it a new decade?? Some discussion on the subject.
Vice President: (vacant)
Secretary: Steve Smith
Treasurer: Tina Abel
— No report.
— Dues are due and payable. Remember that membership has gone up to $20, or $15 for students and active military. In the absence of the Treasurer, the President directed the Secretary to collect dues.
Trustees: Charles Abel, Colleen Cahill
Entertivities: Sam Lubell
— Took credit for Christmas, New Years, and snow, all of which were interesting.
— Sam saw Avatar, AKA “Dances with Smurfs”. It was awesome and worth watching. Looks great! Less Plot!

Click the link for the full text of the January 2010 WSFA Journal, including the Minutes of the January 1, 15 2010 meetings.

WSFA Journal January 2010

Note: Publication date is set to the date of the Journal, rather than the date posted, for indexing purposes