Re: short minute of meeting at guadec

[Adam Williams6 <awilliam whitemice org>]

> > > > 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

This would be absolutely fabulous.  I've converted several people from 
Win32 to GNOME/Linux,  but the one thing most of them complain about it 
application integration.  Some way to get data from/into/across apps in at 
least a quasi-automated fashion, short of writting C code, would be *SO* 
appreciated.  Gnumeric lets one use GDA (from gnome-db) which is good 
(gnumeric using an outside data source) but some way to use Gnumeric as 
the data source would make it perfect.  A GDA provider for gnumeric?

Does gnumeric have a server mode (sort of like galeon does)?  Where one 
can pass it operations, etc... without opening a GUI window?  Or does 
bonobo provide this sort of functionality?

I'm very sorry I can't help with such things, but I'm just a lowly 
sys-admin.  I am maintaining the "Database access with Linux" presentation 
- ftp://kalamazooolinux.org/pub/pdf/dbaccess.pdf however, in my attempt to 
do something useful.

I've also written
ftp://kalamazooolinux.org/pub/pdf/KerberosV-v3.pdf
ftp://kalamazooolinux.org/pub/pdf/PerfTune2001.pdf
ftp://kalamazooolinux.org/pub/pdf/TCPIP.pdf
ftp://kalamazooolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf
ftp://kalamazooolinux.org/pub/pdf/rdbms.pdf
ftp://kalamazooolinux.org/pub/pdf/KCC-Networking-Jan2002.pdf
ftp://kalamazooolinux.org/pub/pdf/pam_and_nss.pdf
ftp://kalamazooolinux.org/pub/pdf/printing2001.pdf
ftp://kalamazooolinux.org/pub/pdf/cvs.pdf

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