[Sugar-devel] GSoC idea: Chart/graph-making activity

[David Farning]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> Garrison Benson wrote:
>> A traditional spreadsheet kind of interface would work (something like MS
>> Excel or OO.o Calc) but I think a more basic, application-specific interface
>> may be more accessible.
>>
>> Anyway, who's got comments or suggestions? Thanks in advance!
>
> I think that's a great idea!  Many people have started projects to create
> spreadsheets for Sugar, but none have finished.
>
> Some pointers:
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-February/004225.html
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/2008-February/000097.html
>
> Three classes of approaches have been attempted, roughly:
>
> 1. Sugarize Gnumeric
> 2. Socialcalc
> 3. A python-based spreadsheet using numpy, matplotlib, pylab, etc.

Ben,

Any thought on which of these approaches is the most promising or has
the most bang for the buck?

david
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