This is really cooking now. Great to see everyone's input!

Would I offend many by saying that I hope these core solutions aren't going to be done in Python? it seems like Python apps are 1) great for ad-hoc applications 2) not very robust 3) a little more sluggish than good native code.

If I see another Python error dump when trying to manage my schedule I'm gonna do something terrible to the device, I'm sure.