<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Dear all, I am delighted to announce the release of the version #5 of SocialCalc activity on Sugar. We have introduced a number of features in SocialCalc on Sugar since the last community release - 1. Localization in Spanish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Chinese (simplified), French, German and Portuguese. 2. Ability to read and edit single sheet Excel .xls files. 3. Sharing of activity over the mesh network. 4. Ability to read and edit single sheet Lotus notes. 5. Optimization of the save files. The sheet extents will include just the part that has data. This feature also "canonicalizes" the saved data in other ways, such as removing no longer used formats and color definitions from the save file. 6. Localization made easy, especially of text in the user interface. All of the text that is normally seen during operation is now easily localizable by changing a single file, socialcalcconstants.js. Wish to express my thanks to team members - Dan Bricklin, whose invaluable support and guidance has been integral to develop SocialCalc for the Sugar environment; Vijit Singh, Software Engineer at <a href="http://seeta.in" target="_blank">SEETA</a> ; Luke Closs and K.S. Preeti, developers' of the JS-Python communication through XOCOM package; Nicholas Doiron, the author of the graphing features; Mahesh Sharma from<a href="http://seeta.in" target="_blank"> SEETA</a> for developing interoperability between SocialCalc on Sugar and Excel (.xls format); Claudia Urrea and Reuben Caron for localizing SocialCalc on Sugar to Spanish; Diksha Khatri and Lakky Rawat for localizing SocialCalc on Sugar to Hindi, Chinese (simplified), French, German and Portuguese; Sakshi Chawla for localizing SocialCalc on Sugar to Afrikaans, Japanese, Arabic and Russian (Google translator was used for translating SocialCalc to all these languages, except Spanish, which was localized by Claudia and Reuben. If you wish to review and improve the translation, please send an e-mail to <a href="mailto:manu@seeta.in" target="_blank">manu@seeta.in</a>). Wish to express my gratitude to Walter Bender, Adam Holt, Caroline Meeks and Samuel J. Klein for their wonderful support and encouragement as always. </div><div><div></div><div>Please visit - 1. SocialCalc on Sugar - <a href="http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/socialcalc-on-sugar.html" target="_blank">http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/socialcalc-on-sugar.html</a> 2. SocialCalc on Sugar wiki page - <a href="http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalc_on_Sugar" target="_blank">http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalc_on_Sugar</a> 3. Download pages - the version #5 along with its source code can be downloaded from <a href="http://seeta.in/j/downloads.html" target="_blank">http://seeta.in/j/downloads.html</a> or from <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">activities.sugarlabs.org</a>. 4. For Educators Video on using Charting Tools - <a href="http://www.scalablec.com/videos/14/socialcalc-charting-tools-video-tutorial" target="_blank">http://www.scalablec.com/videos/14/socialcalc-charting-tools-video-tutorial</a> Guide for using Charting Tools - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/SocialCalc" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/SocialCalc</a> We look forward to hearing your feedback and experience with SocialCalc on Sugar. We started a group about SocialCalc on Sugar for educators, content engineers, developers, translators, curriculum developers, testers and graphic designers on ScalableC (<a href="http://www.scalablec.com" target="_blank">www.scalablec.com</a>) to share ideas, collaborate and engineer curriculum materials and develop case-studies on using SocialCalc on Sugar at schools. Please join the group if you are a member at ScalableC. If you are not a member, please ask for an invitation at <a href="http://www.scalablec.com/register.php" target="_blank">http://www.scalablec.com/register.php</a> with the message "interested in joining SocialCalc on Sugar group". If you would like to put in a feature request, or submit a bug report, please do so at <a href="http://testtrack.seeta.in" target="_blank">http://testtrack.seeta.in</a> , or e-mail us at <a href="mailto:socialcalc.sugar@seeta.in" target="_blank">socialcalc.sugar@seeta.in</a>. Hope you enjoy working with SocialCalc on Sugar. Regards, Manu </div></div></div> </div>