[Gretl-devel] Introducing the Turkish translation of gretl :-)

Gentlemen: I am happy to tell you that I have just sent the complete and brand new tr.po file to Allin so that he can replace it with the existing old and incorrect one in the cvs. I have been translating the gretl UI into Turkish over the summer and it was actually finished for quite some time now. I have been testing it to make sure it is of a high quality. Over the last several weeks, I have also translated almost the entire gretl web site into Turkish, which is also uploaded now to the cvs. I don't think most of the fellow developers (except Allin and Jack) know me, so, let me briefly introduce myself: I am a gretl user and a follower of its development since my Ph.D. studies at Fordham University in New York. After my graduation last year, I started working as assistant professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara. Over the last few years, I was instumental in testing the numerical accuracy of gretl on several fronts including linear regression, nonlinear regression, univariate summary statistics, statistical distributions and the arma functionality. In 2007, I published a review of gretl including its numerial accuracy in Journal of Applied Econometrics (22 (4), 849-54, 2007). My newest article is forthcoming in International Journal of Forecasting (available online, doi:10.1016/j.ijforecast.2008.07.002) and looks at the Box-Jenkins methodology from a computational perspective. It also compares ARIMA results from several econometric packages including gretl. Aside from testing the acuuracy of gretl on different fronts, from now on, I will also be the maintainer of the Turkish translation and the Turkish web pages. I am very happy and honored to finally join you guys as a formal gretl developer. It is my understanding that with the upcoming version 1.7.9, gretl will now have support for two new languages namely Russian and Turkish. Step by step, I think we are getting close to world domination. This is pretty exciting. I would like to thank all the fellow developers and Allin in particular for creating what has become one of the best econometric packages around. Let's keep up the good work. Cheers A. Talha YALTA -- "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) --