[BLU/Officers] Speakers list errata ?

[John Abreau]

I took a look at the calendar.

I used the GEDCOM* name format for names in the persons table, but somehow
missed it when adding Don Becker back in 2008, and I didn't add the
speakers lists to the web page until many years after that. I've corrected
his record, and it's no longer giving the python exception.

I imagine the two Mark Woodwards are probably the same person, but I don't
know that for sure. I'll have to dig back in my inbox to 2011 to see if I
can find any clues to resolve the question.

*GEDCOM stands for "Genealogical Data Communications", a file format for
exchanging genealogical data. Internationally, and historically, there
exist(ed) many different conventions for delineating personal names vs
family names, so for maximum utility GEDCOM uses slash characters to
delimit the family name. E.g.,

    "Montmorency Quintus /Blodgett/ Jr.", a.k.a. "Spike".



On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 12:38 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> JABR,
>
> Kurt treating the calendar/speakers like a competitive league table
> (private email) got me proofreading
> http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/speakers -
>
>    - Are these the same person? Mark L. *Woodward*
>    <http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/speakers/m-woodward1> (1) :: Mark
>    *Woodward* <http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/speakers/m-wood1> (1)
>    - why is Don alphabetized by FirstName, with no bold? :: Don Becker
>    <http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/speakers/d-becker1> (1) ::
>       - looks like there's a data problem
>       <http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/speakers/d-becker1>
>
> *<type 'exceptions.ValueError'>* Python 2.7.5: /usr/bin/python
> Thu Jul 20 12:34:07 2023
>
> A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function
> calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
>  /srv/www/cgi-bin/calendar in ()
>     563   print '</html>'
>     564
>     565 if __name__ == '__main__':
> =>  566   main()
>     567
> *main* = <function main>
>  /srv/www/cgi-bin/calendar in *main*()
>      48     if row_exists(dbh, 'persons', person):
>      49       print_html_header('BLU speaker: %s' % person)
> =>   50       show_one_speaker(dbh, path_info)
>      51     else:
>      52       print_html_header('Nonexistent BLU speaker')
> *global* *show_one_speaker* = <function show_one_speaker>, *dbh* =
> <connection object at 0x7f3fb496f7f8; dsn: 'dbna...t='localhost'
> password=xxxxxxxxxxxxx', closed: 0>, *global* *path_info* =
> 'speakers/d-becker1'
>  /srv/www/cgi-bin/calendar in *show_one_speaker*(dbh=<connection object
> at 0x7f3fb496f7f8; dsn: 'dbna...t='localhost' password=xxxxxxxxxxxxx',
> closed: 0>, path_info='speakers/d-becker1')
>     265     print '<h1>BLU Speaker: %s</h1>' % plain_name
>     266
> =>  267     show_person(dbh, pers_id)
>     268
>     269     if row['bio']:
>
>
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