10:48 a.m.
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?
Best regards,
artur
12:02 p.m.
Dear Artur,
It's not a praying boy. It's a praying girl.
I think the icon is a funny association Allin did with the little girl
called Gretl Von Trapp from the classic movie "The Sound of Music".
Yesterday I watch this movie and I remember how beautiful Gretl is :-)
Um abraço,
Henrique
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Em 22/04/2011, às 07:48, artur bala <artur.bala(a)laposte.net> escreveu:
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?
Best regards,
artur
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12:06 p.m.
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
6:52 p.m.
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> 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
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1:23 a.m.
At first thought, it was freak but now I see it cool. What is the
brown edge in the left side of the logo?
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Talha Yalta <talhayalta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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