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Glasgow 2024 is delighted to announce its plans for online attendance at the 2024 Worldcon. These include streaming of selected programming and events, online communication, and community engagement.

Our online convention experience aims to:

• make our membership more inclusive and diverse, opening the event up to individuals and communities who have historically faced practical and/or financial barriers to physical attendance
• make our convention content more inclusive and diverse, featuring a wider range of voices from across the global community of science fiction
• provide a richer experience to our in-person membership (additional displays, additional ways to connect and opportunities to catch up with content they missed on the day).
• provide an experience to previous Worldcon attendees who cannot attend in person this year (for instance due to cost of attendance, travel issues, mobility or disability limitations, Covid-19 concerns, conflict with other commitments, etc).

Member Portal

The Member Portal is your gateway to the online side of the convention, for both online and in-person members. It is packed full of links to useful at-con resources, as well as the link to join the convention Discord and to RingCentral Events where you can stream a large amount of the programme.

Logging in to the members portal allows us to customise the experience to your membership and give you quick access to the things most relevant to you. We also require you to log in to access streaming programme via RingCentral Events and chatting via the Discord.

If you do not wish to log in, or cannot (for example, because you are under 16 or don’t hold a membership in the convention), then you can click the “Continue without logging in” link to browse anonymously. This will allow you to access public information stored on the portal including the convention schedule, locality maps and our online newsletter.

Technical Platform

Our technical platform is based on RingCentral Events for video streaming and Discord for text interaction and community forums.

Online Attending Memberships and Tickets

All Adult and Young Adult Attending Members of Glasgow 2024 automatically receive full access to the online convention experience, as do all Day Ticket holders aged 16 or older.

Online Attendance can also be purchased online, in two forms:

• as an Online Attending Ticket, giving full access to the online experience,
• or as an Online Attending Membership, which also includes a WSFS Membership.

Existing WSFS Members can upgrade to Online Attending Membership at a discounted rate.

Online Attending Memberships and Tickets are for those aged 16 or older at the start of 2024, i.e., born in 2008 or earlier.