When my talk on promoting best practices for tools via on-wiki communities was wait listed I submitted a related poster presentation: https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/FLOSS_best_practices_for_bots_and_tools

List of suggested best practices for developers of tools and bots designed to make it easier to attract co-contributors and for on-wiki communities to "rescue" projects that the original author has lost interest in.

This poster has been accepted, so now I need to design it and submit the camera ready art by 2017-07-17.

Tips to create your poster

What should your poster have?
In terms of content, the kind of poster we are looking for is an academic poster, a presentation of information that is educational to others, and serves a learning purpose, rather than a promotional or marketing end. With the topic of your poster in mind, lay out the story in a way that it lets other people know what happened, what were the key results, and what is your key advice to them, if you have any. The following links have more information on effective storytelling and how to create posters.

• The ABCDs of Storytelling: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_and_Evaluation/Reporting_and_Storytelling#Workshop:_the_ABCD_of_Storytelling
• Learning Pattern on posters that work: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Posters_that_work
• Posters created for Wikimania London (2014): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Poster_Session_Wikimania_2014
• Posters created for Wikimedia Conference 2016 Learning Days: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Conference_2016_-_Learning_Day_Posters
• Posters created for Wikimania Esino Lario (2016): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Learning_Days_at_Wikimania_2016_-_Posters

Technical specifications for your poster

The maximum dimensions for your poster are size A1. Following are the technical specifications for the poster:
Size: A1 (594 x 841 mm "or" 23.4 x 33.1 in)
DPI: preferably 150-300 DPI
Color mode: Preferably CMYK (most graphic editing software programs have a color changing mode, and CMYK is great for lossless printing)

Printing Your Poster

The deadline to print your poster with our printer is July 17th. In order to get it printed, you should send it to clairec@pixgraphik.com. Please make sure your poster is a PDF file, vectorized, in high resolution. If you chose to print the poster yourself, please make sure to follow the poster dimensions... and don't forget to pack it!