On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, Henrique Andrade wrote:
Dear Gretl Team,
I'm thinking a lot about creating a Gretl domain for the Portuguese
website. Today I discovered that this could be simple (and cheap!).
I would like to create the
www.gretl.org.br<http://www.gretl.org.br>
or
www.gretl.com.br<http://www.gretl.com.br> (but IMHO the
www.gretl.org<http://www.gretl.org> is a better choice), assuming
all the costs, of course.
The .com.br<http://com.br> is cheaper and easier to register than
.org.br<http://org.br>, but has a .com indicating something
commercial. The .org.br<http://org.br> needs some legal
documentation. The .org is the simplest to register.
Why use a domain? I think it would be easier to users remember our
internet address and look a little bit more professional
(unfortunately a lot of our users don't know what Sourceforge is
:)). Important: I really don't think Gretl is not professional! I
just saying that we could improve public perception about that.
Additionally I've been thinking about creating an email adress with
one of these domains. Why? Today I use an email address from the
University where I did my PhD and I would like to stop this. I could
use my new professional email (from Brazilian Ministry of Finance),
but I think we shouldn't associate Gretl with anything more
commercial (we are free and open source :)).
What do you think?
I don't think there's any objection to what you propose; feel free to
pursue it. The Polish gretl contingent have had their own site for a
long time. The English-language site (at least) will probably stay at
sourceforge for the foreseeable future, because I think it makes sense
to have the website and the code + download facilities on the same
(virtual) server. But we can switch the Portuguese link at sourceforge
to point to a new domain if you wish.
Allin