Keep in mind that you are part of a parade of worldcons that are coming before your con and after yours. Significantly changing the months in which worldcon is run would, among other things, screw up the Hugo nomination and voting intervals, and also mess with the next year's worldcon dates and timing.
In addition, a large number of fans came from overseas for this convention, and Northern Hemisphere summer is when they tend to be able to get leave.
Finally, it's not like the committee submitted some other dates that were knocked back by some mysterious cabal - this mainly seems to be your own strange paranoia about "US SMoFS."
If you want to run a large Australian-centric convention and bring in guests, feel free. However, if you bid to run the worldcon, it is a trust. That doesn't mean you have to slavishly adhere only to things that have been done in the past, but at the same time, voters and attendees have a right to expect that you pay some attention to worldcon tradition.
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Date: 2010-09-12 08:24 am (UTC)In addition, a large number of fans came from overseas for this convention, and Northern Hemisphere summer is when they tend to be able to get leave.
Finally, it's not like the committee submitted some other dates that were knocked back by some mysterious cabal - this mainly seems to be your own strange paranoia about "US SMoFS."
If you want to run a large Australian-centric convention and bring in guests, feel free. However, if you bid to run the worldcon, it is a trust. That doesn't mean you have to slavishly adhere only to things that have been done in the past, but at the same time, voters and attendees have a right to expect that you pay some attention to worldcon tradition.