Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:16:42 -0700
Reply-To: Dale McLerran <stringplayer_2@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Dale McLerran <stringplayer_2@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Dates for SUGI
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David,
While I would share your concern about Easter dates, the calendars
which I have looked at (http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar) and
which indicate when Easter falls each year show the following:
Year Date
2004 April 11
2005 March 27
2006 April 16
For SUGI dates which you show below, there is not a problem.
Dale
--- ListServer <reply@SASL.NO.SPAM> wrote:
> I was just transcribing my notes from SUGI and decided to place the
> dates of
> the next three SUGIs into my calendar to save hunting for them at
> some
> future date. The dates provided at the Planning BOF were:
>
> Dates Location Chair
>
> May 9-12, 2004 Montreal Duke Owen
> April 10-13, 2005 Philadelphia Greg Barnes-Nelson
> March 26-29, 2006 San Francisco Kim LeBouton
>
> I thought the span of dates rather odd, and my calendar confirmed the
> peculiarity. The conference starts on Holy Sunday in each of those
> years.
>
> While the coincidence of Holy Sunday is bad enough, this also means
> classes
> will be run on Good Friday. There remain some on this list for whom
> the
> idea of working on Good Friday is not something that will appeal.
>
> I recognise that venues of the size needed for SUGI are booked well
> in
> advance, and that changes may not be very likely even as early as
> 2006, but
> I think the SUGI Executive Committee needs to be a little more
> cautious of
> the dates chosen.
>
> In our tolerance of other religions, those who are baptised Christian
> sometimes seem to be forgotten. I encourage others to politely voice
> their
> opinions to the SUGI EC. (Not here please: SUGI dates may be on
> topic, but
> religious discussions are not.)
>
> I'll reply off list to anyone who removes SUGI from this address:
> david@dSkUvGjI.com.
>
> Kind regards
>
> David Johnson
>
>
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Dale McLerran
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
mailto: dmclerra@fhcrc.org
Ph: (206) 667-2926
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