On 22.02.2016 15:05, Sven Schreiber wrote: Well the obvious choice would be perhaps, something like github or bitbucket. There is a relatively comprehensive list of possible project hosters: https://alternativeto.net/software/github/ Although it might be helpful to have something like a list of must haves. Greetings, Johannes

Am 22.02.2016 um 16:48 schrieb Allin Cottrell: Well I looked around a little bit but honestly cannot come up with a concrete suggestion. There is obviously a lot of software that you can set up and run on your own server, which I would rather like to avoid. One feature criterion that occurred to me is to be able to use LaTeX code in the postings to write math. Does anybody any (hosted) solution that does that? thanks, sven

Am 05.04.2016 um 16:59 schrieb Hélio Guilherme: As I said, personally I would want to avoid the administrative overhead. We/you would be responsible to keep the platform running and also to fix security issues. But maybe that's just me. cheers, sven

On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Allin Cottrell wrote: Now THAT would be cool (and useful). ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------

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. I searched with "Applied Mathematics", "Operations Research", "Gretl" and did not find meaningful groups. Searching with "Statistics", found "Data Science" in public beta but not in the criteria to be Launched, and "Statistical Analysis" already Launched. I searched with "Econometrics" and found "Economics" which is Closed after 206 days in Beta. (found a community of my interest "Software Quality Assurance & Testing" ;) ) Well, after these searches I am pessimistic on trying to create a Gretl community, but if the community would be Econometrics less pessimistic. Finally, the "Statistical Analysis" community is named, Cross Validated and the intro text is: "Cross Validated is a question and answer site for people interested in statistics, machine learning, data analysis, data mining, and data visualization. It's 100% free, no registration required." There are questions specific to applications like R or SPSS, for example: - "How to analyze 2^k design with replicates in SPSS (or R)?" (no answers) - "Is there a method to plot the output of a random forest in R?" (two answers) This is to conclude that a specific Gretl questions could be asked and answered there. A search in this community with "Gretl", returned 60 questions, and the following stands out with 11 upvotes to one of the 3 answers: - "Which statistical software is suitable for teaching an undergraduate introductory course of statistics in social sciences?" -- The most voted answer is: "Maybe Gretl? http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ It is free and used at our University for undergraduate statistics." We can also observe Tags for the questions, like "eviews" and "gretl". What can Allin and Jack do? They can add a reference to the community in the users mailing list and site, for people to search for Q&A like this: http://stats.stackexchange.com/search?q=Gretl or just pointing to the community http://stats.stackexchange.com/ (the mailing list should exist for ever!) On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Henrique Andrade <henrique.coelho(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

On 06.04.2016 02:23, Allin Cottrell wrote: 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

Am 17.04.2016 um 22:07 schrieb Sven Schreiber: Just an update: I have now registered with "Cross Validated" (which to my understanding is an alias or the same as the Statistics area within Stackexchange. I've answered some questions there, but the only gretl-related answer was "no, gretl doesn't have multivariate ARCH". (http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/189675/easy-explanation-of-how-t...) I'm thinking about registering also with "Stackoverflow" which AFAICS is the Stackexchange area for questions about the workings of software packages in general. So if we want to follow up on that idea to use other forums instead of setting up our own for gretl-related stuff, maybe other people from this list could join in. thanks, sven

Am 08.06.2016 um 12:47 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: As soon as an alpha-quality package exists (working on at least a toy example) I could add a comment to my answer on CrossValidated, announcing the new package. cheers, sven