SocialCalc on Sugar version #5 release
Manusheel Gupta
We are 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.
Please visit -
1. SocialCalc on Sugar - http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/socialcalc-on-sugar.html
2. SocialCalc on Sugar wiki page - http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalc_on_Sugar
3. Download pages - the version #5 along with its source code can be
downloaded from http://seeta.in/j/downloads.html or from
activities.sugarlabs.org.
4. For Educators
Video on using Charting Tools -
http://www.scalablec.com/videos/14/socialcalc-charting-tools-video-tutorial
Guide for using Charting Tools - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/SocialCalc
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
(www.scalablec.com) 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
http://www.scalablec.com/register.php 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 http://testtrack.seeta.in , or e-mail us at
socialca...@seeta.in.
Hope you enjoy working with SocialCalc on Sugar.
Regards,
SocialCalc on Sugar Team