Updated
May 7, 2008
What's New
Pacific
Fen Spotlight @ YouTube - this is an excellent site
with videos about the fannish scene in the northwest
created with the excellent skills of Jim Granger. And I
would add this Jim Granger has informed that he has an
even more appropriate compilation site found at
http://www.pac-fen.com/
that really is the true central site
Sfnorthwest.org
or Northwest Science Fiction Resources has been a well
loved task of mine for ten years and more and periodically
I come to the conclusion that it is time to update and
modify this site to take advantage of new technologies
and to broaden the umbrella under which the various forms
of northwest fandom find their home. You
can look forward in the coming year to a new look, new
content, new audio and video and new forms of discussion
and interativity. Feel free to contact me with suggestions
and criticisms. With this heads up I do
plead a mild mea culpa in that personal responsibilities
have kept me away for a sizable chunk of time. Those personal
sidesteps are resolved and we will see on how things shake
out in terms of what Northwest Science Fiction Resources
will be morphing into in 2008 and 2009. Stay tuned. At
the very least in the immediate future, there will be a
more timely updates of the con page in particular and other
pages in general. Have already updated the listing
for Norwescon, Rainfurrest which
I somehow missed and more.
I have as a goal to transform sfnorthwest
by the beginning of summer 2008, using flash video,
interactivity, a better approach to updating the RSS
feed, AJAX and other elements for your pleasure and mine. In particular I plan to turn this web presence into a standards compliant site that moves as much as possible away from tables and towards using CSS, XML and more. Stay
tuned and check back. It is also in the infant
stages but I plan to start a blog as part of sfnorthwest
discussing what I am doing and hopefully getting feedback
on what people would like to see besides being a little
bit more speedy about updating suggested content on the
site. Please note the Suggest a Site button and make use of it :-)
Jack Beslanwitch
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Northwest Conventions
The
cons or other major fannish events coming in the near future (part
of what can be found on the Northwest
Cons page and with more details about
- May
10 - 11, 2008-
Emerald City ComicCon - Seattle, Washington (Comic
related)
- May 16
- 18 , 2008
- OtaFest - Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Anime)
- May 23 - 25, 2008 - CONduit
XVIII - Salt Lake City, Utah (General
interest science fiction con)
- May 23 - 25, 2008 -
Enfilade!
Olympia, Olympia (Enfilade! is a “miniatures” gaming
convention, with an emphasis on historical role-playing game)
- May 23 - 26th,
2008 - Miscon 22 - Missoula, Montana (General SF Convention)
- June 9, 2008 - Olympia Comics Festival - Olympia, Washington (Comic
related)
- June
13 - 15, 2008 - ConComCon 15 - Seattle, Washington (Con
for con runners)
- July 3-6, 2008 -
Westercon 61: Burning Fan - Las Vegas NV (Major regional
science fiction convention that moves around the western
US)
- July
25 - 27, 2007 - MerpCon IV - Spokane, Washington (role
playing gaming convention dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien's
Middle-earth)
- August 1 - 3, 2008
- Fandemonium - Nampa, Idaho (General
SF and fantasy with strengths in gaming, anime, comics
and much more)
- August 1-3, 2008 - SpoCon 2008- Spokane, Washington (General
SF)
- August
6 - 10, 2008 - Denvention 3 - 66th World Science Fiction
Convention - Denver, Colorado
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