[BLU/Officers] Speakers list errata ?

[John Abreau]

I've confirmed that both Marks were the same person: markw at mohawksoft.com.
I've corrected the calendar to reflect this.

Thanks for the audit!


On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 8:53 AM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>
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