Re: [Gretl-devel] we need defense and/or marketing: what I have learned

Institute of Statistics in Spain) is adopting gretl for some calculus of their more important macroeconomic-data 2) we know the Department of Economics of Banco do Brasil uses Gretl in a intensive way It would be nice to have this information at the Gretl site at a visible place and in Greetl Wiki page 2003 article about Gretl is outdfated: now Gretl is much, much better than described there. Also, Carlos Henrique Coêlho de Andrade from Divisão de Macroeconomia do Banco do Brasil is a Gretl translator. I have seen several articles "Econometric modelling in National Bank of X country" It would be nice if Carlos would be invited to make Gretl working paper on this topic Gretl is buggy: Most of Gretl bugs are at developer level and  typically  they have  a way around. Gretl once had have a common bug with e-Views in using information criteria   for lag selection. In Gretl it is corrected, e-Views??? Once I have encountered a really serious bug in e-Views: for some dataset they gave estimates of an ARMA model corresponding to non-invertible MA-part version. I use Gretl in some classes: for some things I wrote R-interfaces (unwanted by Riccardo as official packages) I use R for some classes: for some topics I simply give my Gretl materials. I tell students: if you are working in a small firm it's stupid to by, say SAS. If you working in an institution with a given soft it would be much easier to learn it after having acquainted with two different programs. It is commercially bad to integrate, say Stata and e-Views. But integration Gretl with, say R and python is quite natural. Oleh