Hi, it's a little late, but it seems that there is one day left to propose projects for the Google summer of code. I think Talha started an initiative last year, maybe we should try again this year? After Jack said that he wanted to have more (G)ARCH variants this year for a relatively big release it occurred to me that maybe that's what gretl could propose as a project. I tend to think that the marketing would be relatively easy given that ARCH won a Nobel prize and that those tools are not only of interest to scientists or crazy macroeconomists, but to an entire industry (although I would like to see the financial industry shrink and deflate, but that's another story). As I said, it appears to be quite late. Talha, do you think it's crazy to try to meet the deadline? Personally I would be relatively free tomorrow and could do some writing, but I don't have any idea about the amount of work involved at this stage. thanks, sven _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel

No problem, I wasn't necessarily trying to get you to do the work (although I wouldn't have minded ;-) -- but could you give a quick indication of how much work this first stage is? Is it a one-page proposal or what? I simply have no idea. thanks, sven Talha Yalta schrieb: > Hi Sven. Thanks for reminding about this issue but I am a bit > discouraged from last year. Besides, things are going pretty hectic > this semester. Maybe next year? > Cheers > Talha > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net&gt; wrote: >> Hi, >> >> it's a little late, but it seems that there is one day left to propose >> projects for the Google summer of code. I think Talha started an >> initiative last year, maybe we should try again this year? >> >> After Jack said that he wanted to have more (G)ARCH variants this year >> for a relatively big release it occurred to me that maybe that's what >> gretl could propose as a project. >> >> I tend to think that the marketing would be relatively easy given that >> ARCH won a Nobel prize and that those tools are not only of interest to >> scientists or crazy macroeconomists, but to an entire industry (although >> I would like to see the financial industry shrink and deflate, but >> that's another story). >> >> As I said, it appears to be quite late. Talha, do you think it's crazy >> to try to meet the deadline? Personally I would be relatively free >> tomorrow and could do some writing, but I don't have any idea about the >> amount of work involved at this stage. >> >> thanks, >> sven >> _______________________________________________ >> Gretl-devel mailing list >> Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu >> http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel

Ok thanks for the information. I looked at the SoC FAQ and I now have the impression that it's quite "organization-centric" as opposed to "project-centric". So I don't think it will make much sense to pitch this Arch thing. They want a pool of ideas (which you provided last year), and I think just applying again with a basically unchanged ideas pool is not going to work. I think a viable plan could be to embed the SoC application (next year) in the "big gretl release" thing. Then there would almost automatically be a large pool of ideas. It could also be combined with the next gretl conference. However, that goes against Jack's timeline since that would mean to wait one and a half years. (And I also think that would be too late.)