San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., issued a challenge to non-profit groups that fund activities related to science fiction fandom by offering a matching grant of up to $1,050 to help fund the SF- Lovers web site and related electronic services. SFSFC also granted $450 outright to SF-Lovers to deal with an impending funding shortfall reported by the service's manager, Saul Jaffe.
Continued operation of the SF-Lovers site (http://www.sflovers.org/) has been in some doubt due to the personal financial difficulties of the site's operator, Saul Jaffe, who has maintained the site and its predecessor (sflovers.rutgers.edu) out of his own resources since 1991.
SFSFC urges groups interested in making donations to fund SF-Lovers and qualify for the matching grant to contact Saul Jaffe directly at jaffe@sflovers.org.
At the 1989 Worldcon (Noreascon III), SF-Lovers received a Special Committee Award for pioneering the use of computer bulletin boards in fandom. Today, the SF-Lovers host maintains the archives of SF-Lovers Digest, the Internet's first mailing list dedicated to SF & fantasy, the SMOFS (convention-runners) mailing list, the TIMEBINDERS (Fan history) mailing list, and the SF-Lovers Convention List (the largest, and most comprehensive list of SF conventions available online), as well as a web site dedicated and devoted to providing information about SF and related genres to the online community.
The SF-Lovers host contains the most comprehensive known online archive of documents relating to the World Science Fiction Society, including past meeting minutes and official papers dating back to 1974 and forming an invaluable resource for research regarding WSFS procedures.
SFSFC Inc. was the parent non-profit corporation of ConJose, the 2002 Worldcon, and of ConFrancisco, the 1993 Worldcon. The grant to SF-Lovers, however, was funded from the corporation's General Fund, not from any Worldcon surplus funds.
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