The NationStates World Fair IV
The NationStates World Fair is back - with an expanded committee and great plans for 2015! This is the first world fair without the co-founder of the organisation Unibot, and we will do our best to ensure that the World Fair continues on as strong as ever without him.
The New Committee
The Committee has been expanded this year to include old and new members. Serving as our chairman for 2015 will be Todd McCloud, the co-founder of the NationStates World Fair. He will be joined by McMasterdonia, Eluvatar, Astarial, Sopo, and Almonaster in what is a dynamic team dedicated to making this world fair a huge success.
Important information
This year's NationStates World Fair will be held on the 7-14th of December. During that time, we will have several different events occurring at a given moment to capture the high energy and fun atmosphere we have enjoyed in past fairs, but with some twists that we hope you will enjoy.
We have decided that we will be opening the NationStates World Fair 2015 to bidding for host regions. The bidding period will be from right now until the 11th of November. The WF Committee will then choose the top five bids, with the voters having the opportunity to pick the winning bid. Given that we are operating on a tight schedule, we will reserve the right to go with a neutral theme if the applications are not up to standard. However, we are confident that we will see many great applications.
In order to apply, please send a telegram to Todd McCloud with the following information;
1. Why does your region want to host the World Fair?
2. What activities/ideas would you like to bring to the WF?
3. What should this years theme for the World Fair be? How would you implement that theme?
4. Any other information we should consider with respect to your region's bid?
What will hosting the World Fair involve?
The NationStates World Fair Committee is looking to expand the involvement of host regions into the operations of the World Fair. Host regions will be responsible for the opening and closing statements of the World Fair. In addition, they will be involved in the set up of the third party forum to be used for the fair. This will include advising our techmonkey Eluvatar on the type of skin and the general layout of the forum. Finally, the host will have involvement in the organization of the lectures for the NS World Fair, and other games & entertainment ideas for the World Fair 2015.
Regions who wish to submit a detailed application to host the fair should consider the above when making their application.
The Lectures
We will see a return of the very popular lectures of the NationStates World Fair in 2015. Planning is already well underway for what is sure to be a very interesting lecture program. If you are interested in giving a lecture, please send a telegram to McMasterdonia. Please provide details about the topic you wish to lecture about and your experience with that particular topic.
The Lecture series will run for the entire duration of the NationStates World Fair, with multiple lectures being given on each particular day. Lectures will be posted by the lecturer on the day which the speaker is slated to speak, and the lecturer will be available in an IRC chat during their lecture slot
Regional Booths
The NationStates World Fair is now open to requests for regional booths. Only regions may submit booths for this event. Please indicate the position you hold within the region, ideally we would prefer that Delegates, Founders, or the equivalent Minister or Head of Government makes the application.
More to come.
The World Fair Committee will be working closely with the host region for the World Fair in the planning of other activities for the fair.
The Lecture Schedule for the World Fair will be announced as soon as possible.
Stay tuned for further updates!
Voting for the NS World Fair host is now open!
Read the submitted bids here and vote: here
And you can give clever/snarky non-answers to questions that cross the line.