My friend Anne Gray tweeted overnight about the formation of the Latin American Fan Fund. The web page she pointed to is a bit confusing as it talks about bringing someone to Reno at the start, but then switches to San Antonio at the end. Clearly it is too late for Reno, and I suspect that was just an edit fail. San Antonio, on the other hand, is a perfect place to start such a venture. I’ve been telling the Texans for years that they should do some Spanish language programming.

Anyway, LAFF (which people will doubtless make all sorts of jokes about) appears to be live. Assuming all goes well (which means if we all rally round to help, with money if we don’t have any of the skills needed) then it will be fostering contact and cooperation between fans in the English-speaking parts of America and those from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries. This will be a very good thing, and should help make Worldcon more international. Yay! Well done Anne. 🙂