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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import os, sys, shutil
+
+# boilerplate
+basedir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "../web/"))
+sys.path = [ basedir ] + sys.path
+os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "ietf.settings")
+
+import django
+django.setup()
+
+from ietf.group.models import Role
+
+old_images_dir = os.path.join(django.conf.settings.PHOTOS_DIR,'wg/images/')
+new_images_dir = os.path.join(django.conf.settings.PHOTOS_DIR,django.conf.settings.PHOTO_URL_PREFIX)
+
+old_image_files = []
+for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(old_images_dir):
+   old_image_files.extend(filenames)
+   break # Only interested in the files in the top directory
+
+old_image_files_lc = map(lambda x:x.lower(),old_image_files)
+
+interesting_persons = set()
+
+interesting_persons.update([r.person for r in Role.objects.filter(group__type='wg',group__state='active',name='chair')])
+interesting_persons.update([r.person for r in Role.objects.filter(group__type='rg',group__state='active',name='chair')])
+interesting_persons.update([r.person for r in Role.objects.filter(group__type='area',group__state='active',name_id='ad')])
+interesting_persons.update([r.person for r in Role.objects.filter(group__acronym='iab',name_id='member')])
+interesting_persons.update([r.person for r in Role.objects.filter(group__acronym='irtf',name_id='chair')])
+
+#from ietf.person.models import Person
+#interesting_persons = Person.objects.filter(name__contains="Burman")
+
+exceptions = {
+'Aboba' : 'aboba-bernard',
+'Bernardos' : 'cano-carlos',
+'Bormann' : 'bormann-carsten',
+'Wesley George' : 'george-wes',
+'Hinden' : 'hinden-bob',
+'Hutton' : 'hutton-andy',
+'Narten' : 'narten-thomas', # but there's no picture of him 
+'O\'Donoghue' : 'odonoghue-karen',
+'Przygienda' : 'przygienda-antoni', 
+'Salowey' : 'salowey-joe',
+'Patricia Thaler' : 'thaler-pat',
+'Gunter Van de Velde' : 'vandevelde-gunter',
+'Eric Vyncke' : 'vynke-eric',
+'Zuniga' : 'zuniga-carlos-juan',
+'Zhen Cao' : 'zhen-cao',
+
+}
+
+# Manually copied Bo Burman and Thubert Pascal from wg/photos/
+# Manually copied Victor Pascual (main image, not thumb) from wg/
+# Manually copied Eric Vync?ke (main image, not thumb) from wg/photos/
+# Manually copied Danial King (main image, not thumb) from wg/photos/
+# Manually copied the thumb (not labelled as such) for Tianran Zhou as both the main and thumb image from wg/photos/
+
+
+for person in sorted(list(interesting_persons),key=lambda x:x.last_name()+x.ascii):
+    substr_pattern = None
+    for exception in exceptions:
+        if exception in person.ascii:
+            substr_pattern = exceptions[exception]
+            break
+    if not substr_pattern:
+        name_parts = person.ascii.lower().split()
+        substr_pattern = '-'.join(name_parts[-1:]+name_parts[0:1])
+
+    candidates = [x for x in old_image_files_lc if x.startswith(substr_pattern)]
+
+    # Fixup for other exceptional cases
+    if person.ascii=="Lee Howard":
+        candidates = candidates[:2] # strip howard-lee1.jpg
+
+    if person.ascii=="David Oran":
+        candidates = ['oran-dave-th.jpg','oran-david.jpg']
+
+    if person.ascii=="Susan Hares":
+        candidates = ['hares-sue-th.jpg','hares-susan.jpg']
+
+    if person.ascii=="Mahesh Jethanandani":
+        candidates = ['mahesh-jethanandani-th.jpg','jethanandani-mahesh.jpg']
+
+    if len(candidates) not in [0,2]:
+        candidates = [x for x in candidates if not '00' in x]
+
+    # At this point we either have no candidates or two. If two, the first will be the thumb
+
+    def original_case(name):
+        return old_image_files[old_image_files_lc.index(name)]
+
+    if len(candidates)==2:
+        old_name = original_case(candidates[1])
+        old_thumb_name = original_case(candidates[0])
+        old_name_ext = os.path.splitext(old_name)[1]
+        old_thumb_name_ext = os.path.splitext(old_thumb_name)[1]
+
+        new_name = person.photo_name(thumb=False)+old_name_ext
+        new_thumb_name = person.photo_name(thumb=True)+old_thumb_name_ext
+
+        print "Copying",os.path.join(old_images_dir,old_name),"to",os.path.join(new_images_dir,new_name)
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(old_images_dir,old_name),os.path.join(new_images_dir,new_name))
+        print "Copying",os.path.join(old_images_dir,old_thumb_name),"to",os.path.join(new_images_dir,new_thumb_name)
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(old_images_dir,old_thumb_name),os.path.join(new_images_dir,new_thumb_name))