Re: Your spreadsheet experiences

On 2003-11-17, gswork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jody Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> 
>> I maintain Gnumeric.
>> 
>> We're always looking for help if anyone wants to fix some pet peeve
>> in existing proprietary products.  Our goal is to provide a
>> framework for spreadsheet development that on one hand can provide
>> enough compatiblity with existing apps that people can move back and
>> forth.  On the other hand can we're building in hooks to allow new
>> development too.
>> 
>> Drop by www.gnumeric.org if you're interesting in helping or just
>> poking around.
>
> I've found Gnumeric to be quite a complete app, i'm not sure i could
> offer much to the project but thanks for the reply, i'll poke around.

There are lots of areas where we could use assistance.  One of the
best ways is via testing.  Gnumeric has a strong base set of test
workbooks to validate our analytics.  However, I'd like to expand
that to make the testing alot more exaustive.  Have a look at the
function status page at www.gnumeric.org for details.  We've
received funding from Mitch Kapor (of lotus 1-2-3 fame) to fund some
bounties to develop these sort of tests.  I'll announce details some
time in December.  It would not be huge amounts of money,
approximately 50 USD/workbook.  However, it would be a great way for
spreadsheet _users_ to make a contribution and ensure that the
numbers they see are the numbers they expect.