Re: [Gretl-devel] SourceForge featured projects, week of March 26, 2012 (fwd)
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Sven Schreiber wrote:
On 03/27/2012 08:14 AM, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> On 03/27/2012 12:20 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>> I think the following is quite nice recognition, particularly given
>> the specialized nature of gretl compared with most software on
>> sourceforge: gretl will be one of the "front page" projects on sf
>> for the week starting today.
>>
>
>
> Very nice indeed! I must say, however, that I'm surprised that gretl is
> among the fastest-growing projects. Has there been some publication
> recently about gretl (including blogs)?
sorry to respond to myself: Maybe Jack's article in the state-space
issue of the JSS is now spreading around?
Nothing spectacular, it would seem:
http://logec.repec.org/scripts/paperstat.pf?h=RePEc:jss:jstsof:41:i11
I've been monitoring downloads from SourceForge and other indicators of
gretl's popularity for a while. I don't think there's anything
particularly new and different happening, with one exception: I have the
feeling that gretl was, up to 1-2 years ago, very popular in countries
where mass familiarity with English is not a given (Italy, the
Iberosphere, Poland, Turkey, perhaps to a lesser extent Germany) thanks to
the great work by Sven, Ignacio, Talha, the Polish trio :) etcetera. The
Anglosphere (plus historically English-friendly countries, such as
Scandinavia and the Netherlands) tended to snub gretl as a consequence of
the "you get what you pay for" attitude. There is, I believe, some
anecdotal evidence that this perception is beginning to change and we're
seeing much more attention from the UK, Canada and of course the States.
But it may just be a wrong impression, I don't have hard evidence
supporting this.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti