Re: short minute of meeting at guadec

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:36:31PM -0400, Kevin Breit wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 11:12, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:31:59PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > In my personal experience i use speadsheets for simple sorting, and
> > > search and replace and i suspect this is what most people unfamiliar with
> > > scripting languages do.
> > > I also use a speadsheet as a simple flatform database, sometimes using
> > > multiple (linked) sheets instead of seperate database tables.  I'll bet
> > > this has been discussed by the Gnumeric people before, so if there is not
> > > already one i think i should volunteer to write a tutorial to users
> > > suggesting how to do this and why they probably dont really need a real/ms
> > > proprietary database.
> >
> > Such a tutorial would be quite useful.  The docs folk would love to
> > have more task oriented content. 
>
> Wow!  What a nice idea!  Jody, is this even possible?
>
> Regardless, I say "do it".  I don't have the time to do this though.  I
> am busy with Ximian and schoolwork.  Finals are right around the corner,
> so we all know what this means!  Would someone be able to bugzilla this?

It was Alan's idea.  Alan you've got the go ahead.
        If you write it, we will integrate it