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 > > > /* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > David H Johnson FRSA > DKV-J Consultancies > (Data, Knowledge, Visualisation) > http://www.dkvj.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - */

===== --------------------------------------- Dale McLerran Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center mailto: dmclerra@fhcrc.org Ph: (206) 667-2926 Fax: (206) 667-5977 ---------------------------------------

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