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Good suggestion. I've also found the baposter template very useful ( http://www.brian-amberg.de/uni/poster/ ).

I've already got another 3 poster templates (including one from the page you linked) about 90% ready to be put up on the site, I just need to find the time to finalize them and put them up. Give me a week or two and check back on the site for more!

Unfortunately it's just me working on the website and I'm also a PhD student so that doesn't leave much time to put up new templates. It doesn't help that the vast majority of them have very poor commenting and odd spacing which needs to be brought in line with the commenting style I use throughout the website.

I've seen your website before. I like it. But: Have you ever considered moving all this (in addition) to github? With every template in a subdirectory. Could make collaborating and bringing other folks in easier. Btw, thanks for not making everything with a colored background in the poster. I always feel like that's a huge waste of ink

Thanks!

I've had a bit of feedback regarding opening up the site and allowing community editing/submission automatically. While I definitely see the value in this approach, I personally believe that the top-down approach is better with regard to quality, consistency and ease of use. I don't want to start a debate on the topic, but lets just say I am happy with the way things are and prefer to keep everything under my control, at least at the moment.

I think you'd find that there are other people who share your values regarding quality. Eventually, you might be able to share the work of maintaining the site with these people and the site will grow more quickly. (And maybe you'll enjoy seeing some new templates appear.) Otherwise, (I think) what will happen is that you'll get tired of maintaining the site and updates will stop.

Anyway, I'm glad your site exists and I appreciate your work.

Just to note that opening it up on Github doesn't necessarily entail a loss of control.

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