The Foundation Circuit would be a series of periodic conventions organized and hosted by the LUF and run in locations around the globe. The early FMF did organize an annual convention for its members which were quite popular but also very costly and limited largely to the US. Today, a glut of convention centers and hotels around the globe and their recognition of the growing scale of the market thanks to burgeoning small fan communities, sub-culture groups, professional training programs, and technical conferences has now made the costs of conventions much less, their organization much easier, and the range of interesting venues vast. Conventions and conferences can now be organized on a contingency basis, facility reservations contingent on pre-registrations from patrons collected on-line