Re: short minute of meeting at guadec

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

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.