Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Late breaking Meeting news

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Author: Tony Whitmore
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Late breaking Meeting news
Alan Pope wrote:
> Actually historically we used the 1st Saturday* . However I think we
> bumped this one to the 10th as people might still be recovering on the
> 3rd, and not sure the Uni would be open.


Any meeting that fell on a bank holiday weekend was liable to be bumped,
so the January meeting was usually the second weekend.

> Cheers,
> Al.
>
> * 7 in the last 12 months have been 1st Saturday, 12 in the last 24
> months, 24 in the last 36 months. So it seems we were more "1st
> saturday" during 2005/2006 but during 2007 and 2008 we tended to the
> 2nd Saturday.


That's sounds right, the default was always the first Saturday but when
we started "buddying up" with Surrey, the meetings were a week later
than ours. There were also a few occasions when issues with the venue
necessitated a move IIRC.

Tony