Once every decade or so, the World Con is held outside North America (pause for irony). In 2005, it's in Glasgow, UK, under the name of Interaction. It will run from 4-8 August.
Now, since it's in 2005, the programme isn't exactly finalised yet, but Christopher Priest is there as GoH, and Stephen Baxter, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Ben Jeapes, Ian Watson and a bunch of others are known to be going.
Membership started at 75 UKP, but after Easter Con 2003?, went up to 85 UKP; another hike will be along in a while. However, if you buy supporting membership, then the price to upgrade to attending membership is frozen at whatever it was when you bought it. Now, 75+ UKP, with travel and accomodation come on top, is quite a bit of money, but think about what it is: it's the world SF convention, of which there won't be another in the UK for a long time. Compare that to Easter Con 2003? (aka Sea Con), which was only a UK con, and which cost 45 UKP.
It's probably worth pointing out here that next year's Easter Con will allow or students; IIRC?, that means 25 UKP for a ticket. But don't quote me.
At Pico Con 2003, various people expressed an interest in going, or at least in thinking about it. Some have since done something about it; the following people are amongst those listed as attending in the database (<http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/members.htm>):
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