San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.

Although SFSFC will not be offering a scholarship to attend SMOFCon 28 in San José, the Texas-based convention-running group ALAMO announced yesterday that they will offer one. ALAMO will offer a $300 scholarship to be used toward the cost of attending SMOFCon 28. See their SMOFCon Scholarship Application for further details.

SFSFC originally created its SMOFCon Scholarship Program to send promising Bay Area conrunners to the annual SMOFCon convention-runners conference, and while we have occasionally made awards to people outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, the scholarship has generally retained a Bay Area focus. Because this year’s SMOFCon is in San José (December 3-5, 2010 at the Sainte Claire Hotel), making it substantially easier for Bay Area fans with an interest in convention-running to attend, we have decided to not present a SMOFCon Scholarship in 2010.

We will revisit the SMOFCon Scholarship program in 2011.

We have updated our Directors List and posted the minutes of the March 13 meeting. SFSFC’s next regular meeting has been rescheduled to November 20, 2010. See our Meeting Notices page for details.

Due to scheduling conflicts, the “July” meeting of the SFSFC board of directors has been rescheduled to Sunday, August 1.

Minutes of the regular SFSFC board meeting of November 21, 2009 and the officer-election meeting held the same day have been posted on the minutes page.

SFSFC has established its board meeting schedule for 2010. The Board of Directors is scheduled to meet on March 13, July 24, and November 13, 2010. All meetings are on Saturdays, and all meetings are currently scheduled for 11:00 AM Pacific Time. For further details, see our Meeting Schedule.

SFSFC has two memberships available to the SMOFCon 27 convention-running conference in Austin, Texas, December 4-6, 2009. We will sell them for $50 (memberships will cost $75 at the door). To buy one of the memberships, e-mail the SFSFC Treasurer.

Update: The two memberships are now spoken for. Thank you for your interest.

Kirsten M. Berry is the recipient of the 2009 SFSFC SMOFCon Scholarship. She will receive a $500 grant to attend SMOFCon 27, the annual convention about running SF genre conventions, which this year will be in Austin TX over the weekend of December 4-6. See the full announcement for details.

The deadline for applying for this year’s SMOFCon Scholarship has now passed. The scholarship committee is evaluating applications and expects to make a decision and contact all applicants during the first week of November. We thank everyone who applied for their interest.

October 15 is the last day to apply for the $500 scholarship to help a convention runner in training attend the SMOFCon convention-runners convention in Austin TX this year over the weekend of December 4-6, 2009. For full details, see the press release and the SMOFCon Scholarship Application page.