Dear Allin, I was asked by some colleagues of mine about the praying boy in the gretl's icon. What does it stand for? Is there any connection with some statistical issues?

Do you think a more, let's say, econometric-inspired icon will increase the chances of gretl to get noticed?

She is not praying, she is contemplating. The logo seen on the computer screen is a small part of a scanned picture from a Hanzel and Gretel book. For the First Gretl Conference, it was hand drawn, however, because the picture is very low resolution, the hands turned out to look as if she is paraying. Cheers Talha On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it&gt; wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, artur bala wrote: > >> >> Dear Allin, >> I was asked by some colleagues of mine about the praying boy in the >> gretl's icon. What does it stand for? Is there any connection with some >> statistical issues? > > It's a girl, Gretel, the Grimm character. > >> Do you think a more, let's say, econometric-inspired icon will increase >> the chances of gretl to get noticed? > > I personally like very much the fact that gretl's logo has _nothing_ to do > with econometrics and conveys a warm and gentle image rather than a cold, > possibly pretentious, attempt to look "scientific" by scattering a few Greek > letters here and there. I'd rather surprise a user by guaranteeing > state-of-the-art speed and accuracy coupled with a fairytale character as a > logo than the other way around. > > There was some similar discussion on the user list a while back, you'll find > it in the July 2006 archives. > > > Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti > Dipartimento di Economia > Università Politecnica delle Marche > > r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it > http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users > -- “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” - Niels Bohr (1885-1962) -- _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users