On 06.04.2016 02:23, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Hélio Guilherme wrote:
> I never used stackexchange (I do use stackoverflow :) ).
> Looking at Area 51 (before becoming public and active), there are some
> interesting areas but it shows some difficulties in passing the "public
> beta" target. For example, Machine Learning was Closed, and Matlab is
> open
> but with only 33 participants. [...]
You're right, it's not assured that we can get a "gretl community"
accepted on stackexchange. However, I think it would be worth a try.
If I don't hear strong objections I'll try putting in a submission on
their "Area 51". (I'm not saying that I am uniquely qualified to make
such a a submission, but it might help that I'm the founder of the
project; I can give them some statistics on gretl-user postings, and
-- with some help from Sven and Jack! -- on sourceforge tracker
entries and downloads.)
There already exist some questions, which are tagged with a
gretl tag,
perhaps we could start answering and helping people and by that creating
a stronger community over there. I think that would also give it a
better visibility, when searching gretl related issues on any search
engine, or?
It probably makes sense to focus on the
stats.statsexchange.com
community, which has a very broad focus on statistics and econometrics.
I doubt that you get your own community only for gretl and perhaps we
should focus more on using already existing communities, but that's just
my opinion. :-)
Johannes
> (the mailing list should exist for ever!)
That's what I think too. But the stackexchange format could be quite
useful, if we can get in the door. Might give us some additional
visibility.
Allin
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