<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I suggest Wes talk to the eboard, to see if they have a solid view/agenda for all three of the proposed moves, then we run a quick vote via this mailing list or at the August meeting.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 8:21 AM cjhi <a href="http://newcastle2.com">newcastle2.com</a> <<a href="mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com">cjhi@newcastle2.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7205736940212555208">
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I have a concert on 13 December, so won't be here if the discussion moves. Have we avoided SMOFcon in years it wasn't being run by Boston fandom? (We certainly didn't move it far in advance last year, when it was run by MCFI; I remember rkov complaining when
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There's nothing on the Readercon website yet, but 11 July 2025 is likely to be their first full day. I'd say they're "marginally connected to 'us' ", but we have time to discuss this. (I'll know the date for sure in 6-7 days as they'll be selling next year's
memberships sometime next weekend.) It's possible the best date is 3 July, on the principle that it's still the night before a day off for most of us. Or we could just find out how many people travel any distance to see fireworks (which don't start until 9pm
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 6, 2024 12:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NESFA Reading Group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nesfa-reading-group] Consider moving Reading Group dates to avoid conventions</font>
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<div dir="auto">Ok, I consider it moved!
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<div> — Assuming all agree?</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Jul 5, 2024, at 4:01 PM, David G. Grubbs <<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" target="_blank">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I brushed off the suggestion that we should move our "First Friday" meetings because they collide with the MCFI relaxacon (on October 4th) and the SMOFcon (on December 6th).<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We have always stated that we'd move the date a week if the first Friday had something (even marginally) connected to "us" and the following Friday was unencumbered.</div>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">So I'd like to suggest that we move the October and December meetings to the 11th and 13th, respectively. (I hope I don't hear anything about "Friday the 13th" from this crowd.)</div>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Also, the first Friday in July 2025 is July 4th. We may want to move that to July 11th. That decision can be made now or some months from now.</div>
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