[UFO Chicago] October In-Person UFO Meetings

[James L Mazurek]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2023, Jay F. Shachter wrote:

>
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Matthew T. Gibbs would write on Tue Sep 26 22:28:03 2023:
>
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 26, 2023 1:45:40 PM CDT Jay F. Shachter wrote:
>>>
>>> Esteemed Colleagues:
>>>
>>> Are people willing to switch the in-person and online meetings next
>>> month, doing the Sunday evening in-person meeting on the 4th week
>>> (October 22), and doing the Tuesday evening on-line meeting on the 2nd
>>> week (October 3)?  (Parenthetically, do we still need to have on-line
>>> meetings at all?  I hate them.)  The reason I ask is that the 2nd
>>> Sunday of next month, October 8, is a major Jewish festival, the 2nd
>>> day of Sukkoth (and the 3rd Sunday of the month, October 15, is also a
>>> major Jewish festival, Simhath Torah), so practicing Jews will not be
>>> able to attend the October in-person meeting if it is not rescheduled.
>>> As of the latest count, practicing Jews constitute between 20% and 25%
>>> of the regulars at our in-person Sunday meetings, so maybe that is a
>>> large enough minority to consider a schedule change.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Jay-
>>
>> I am willing to switch, but I would propose that we keep the normal
>> meeting date of October 24 and simply switch the 2nd Sunday to being
>> on-line and the 24th to be in-person at Wendy's on Harlem.  This
>> would be less confusing and people may already have conflicts on the
>> 22nd.
>>
>
> That's fine with me; the reason for my original proposal is that I
> didn't know whether Wendy's might perhaps be more available to us on
> Sundays than on weekdays -- maybe Wendy's is busier on weekdays than
> on Sundays and might be less able to let us have a couple of spare
> tables.  If Wendy's is just as available to us on a Tuesday evening as
> on a Sunday evening, then I fully concur with your proposal, and I am
> confident that in this matter I speak for the entire 20% to 25% of our
> in-person regulars for whom an in-person meeting on the originally-
> scheduled 2nd Sunday of the month conflicts with a religious holiday.
>
>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Matt
>>

Hello All:

No one has opposed Jay's request to move our in-person October 2023 
meeting to a later date and Matt's suggestion that we preserve our second 
Sunday and fourth Tuesday dates.

To be clear, UFO-Chicago will meet on-line on Sunday, October 8th using 
Jitsi Meet and in-person on Tuesday, October 24th at the Wendy's on N 
Harlem Ave in Chicago.

Jim