Re: PSPP promotion at professional associations

[John Darrington]

I recall that Jason Stover said he did a poster presentation at a conference 
some time ago.
I did short presentation at FOSDEM some years ago - I think the slides are on 
the 'net somewhere.

I think one problem is, that PSPP doesn't actually provide much that SPSS does, 
except from an ethical point of view.  So unless the conference (like FOSDEM) 
is concerned with ethical issues, then it doesn't really fall into their area of
 interest.  

Of course, statistical analysis is hardly "mainstream interest" so PSPP doesn't
get the massive following of projects like LibreOffice - so unless the 
conference
is about Ethics in statistics, then it's hard to get a main slot.

Perhaps somebody should organise such a conference in conjunction with other 
free 
stats projects like R, Gretl and Sofa?  

J'

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 08:03:58PM +0000, Dana Williams wrote:
     I'm assuming that a lot of potential PSPP users (like SPSS users) are in 
academia. Has anyone ever approached their professional associations in any 
capacity? For user/programmer recruitment? Basic advertisement? Maybe 
established a table at a conference, etc? It seems like one way to diffuse "the 
word" about PSPP would be through those organizations. Big disciplines like 
psychology, economics, sociology, and others regularly use SPSS-- and each 
likely have their free-software adherents/proponents, too. Just wondering what 
[if anything] others have done like this?
     
     Just curious,
     Dana
     
     
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