[Gretl-users] gretl conference announcement

Dear gretl users: The gretl Development Team, the Econometrics Research Group (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU) and the Faculty of Economics and Business (UPV/EHU), are happy to announce a call for papers for the Gretl Conference to be held in Bilbao (Spain) on may 28-29, 2009. The organizers are glad to announce that Professor D. Stephen G. Pollock,   University of Leicester, has agreed to participate in the conference as a keynote speaker. We encourage everybody willing to support and spread the use of open-source econometric and statistic software to take part in this conference, especially if you are interested in: - Teaching econometrics and statistics using free software - Implementation of some econometric techniques in gretl - Methodological papers with a strong computational emphasis - Applications carried out in gretl - Developing gretl     Ideally, submitted papers should be done with gretl but papers con- taining statistical and econometric applications done in any other pack- age, could be acceptable provided that the paper or the discussion con- tains a section on what gretl lacks to do the same. Submissions for oral and poster presentations are accepted. Important dates: Submission Deadline: January 15, 2009 Notification to Authors: February 27, 2009 Registration Deadline: April 30, 2009 Conference: May 28-29, 2009 You will find all the information about this conference in: http://www.gretlconference.org -- Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA APLICADA III (ECONOMETRÍA Y ESTADÍSTICA) UPV/EHU Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre, 83 | 48015 BILBAO T.: +34 946013732 | F.: +34 946013754 www.et.bs.ehu.es